Student associations stage protests against NTA, Ministry of Education following cancellation of UGC-NET, with several people arrested | News from India

Around 40 to 50 students protesting outside the Ministry of Education (MoE) headquarters were briefly arrested by police.

Announcing a nationwide protest, ABVP student leaders said in a statement on Thursday: “The problem of paper leaks has become very serious. ABVP asks CBI to probe NEET-UG exam. Copy mafias must not be spared, strict measures must be taken against them.”

Speaking to the Indian Express, Ashutosh Singh, national media officer of the ABVP, said: “This is a massive failure on the part of the NTA…For some time now, we have been demanding that the UGC-NET is held in colleges or public schools. and government employees are deployed as supervisors so that they have the responsibility to ensure that everything goes well.

Meanwhile, several members of the All India Students’ Association (AISA), Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) staged a protest at the Ministry of Education office Education. “We will not withdraw our demands to scrap the NTA and seek resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan,” said Ranvijay, president of AISA’s JNU unit.

The AISA, in a statement, said, “We have seen massive discrepancies in the NEET-UG results. NEET aspirants demand re-examination. However, the NTA and the Ministry of Education responded to their demands with brutal detentions and violence.

JNUSU president Dhananjay said, “Our protest today was to demand that the government hold the NTA responsible for the constant discrepancies we have witnessed… When members of JNUSU, AISA and SFI came down to protest here, our country’s (security) forces used violence to suppress the voices of their own students.
DCP, New Delhi, Devesh Mahla said around 40-50 people were arrested during the protest at the Education Department. “Some were taken to Mandir Marg police station and others to Kanjhawala. The women were released around 5:30 p.m. and the men around 7 p.m.,” he added.

The Congress’s student wing, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), protested outside the gate of Pradhan’s residence on Thursday morning.

Varun Choudhary, national president of NSUI, said, “The education minister must immediately ban NTA and take decisive action against those involved. »
In a statement, NSUI said: “Ban the NTA and hold all parties responsible (for the fiasco) accountable to restore trust between students and the public. »