New Delhi: As exam irregularities continue to plague Indian students, a parliamentary panel has summoned senior officials of Union education ministry, the Central Board of Secondary Education, the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the Ministry of Health next week.The 31-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, led by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, has scheduled meetings on June 1 and June 2, according to a Rajya Sabha Secretariat notice issued on May 25.On Monday (May 25), the Supreme Court issued notices to the Union government, the NTA, and the CBI in the matter of the cancellation of the NEET-UG 2026 exam, which was called off on May 12 following a paper leak and rescheduled to June 21. Four of those who took the original exam have died by suicide, and thousands are plunged into uncertainty.The bench led by Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe asked the NTA to file an affidavit by Thursday (May 28) on its compliance with directions issued by the court in 2024, and directed the Centre-appointed committee led by K. Radhakrishnan, which was set up after the 2024 NEET leak to overhaul the NTA’s functioning, to detail the steps it had taken. “It’s sad that they have not learnt their lessons. The matter travelled earlier to this court also. There was a committee, a monitoring committee which made some recommendations, and they were accepted”, said the bench. Petitioners alleged that despite the NTA’s claims of deploying 5G jammers, GPS tracking, and AI-monitored cameras, these measures existed “only on paper” and that “guess papers” circulated on WhatsApp and Telegram had contained 120 questions identical to those in the actual NEET-UG 2026 exam paper.The agency now faces the prospect of defending itself in court while simultaneously preparing to rerun an exam it could not secure the first time.UGC-NET troublesA fresh controversy has emerged, this time over the UGC-NET June 2026 registration cycle, where students say technical glitches locked them out of the application portal despite repeated attempts. The UGC-NET determines eligibility for assistant professor positions at Indian universities and for the Junior Research Fellowship, which funds doctoral research. Missing the deadline means sitting out the annual cycle and for many, that is a year’s delay in a career that has already been years in the making.Students from Delhi University and other institutions wrote to the University Grants Commission (UGC) requesting that the portal be reopened. Indian Express reported on how a postgraduate philosophy scholar from Kalahandi in Odisha told the UGC that they were “unable to submit” the form before the deadline due to a “delay in Digilocker verification”, citing a lack of technological access in their remote area. “I have been preparing diligently for this session, and it would be deeply unfortunate to miss this opportunity on procedural grounds alone,” the student wrote. Another student quoted in the report described three days of failed attempts across different devices and browsers. The website “either failed to load properly, showed errors during submission, or did not proceed to the payment/final submission stage”, they wrote to the UGC, adding that they had “genuinely tried” to complete the process within time. The NTA has already extended the deadline once, from May 20 to May 23, citing “various requests received from candidates”. The exam is scheduled to run from June 22 to June 30 in a computer-based format. The UGC has not responded to requests for comment at the time of writing.In June 2024, the UGC-NET exam was cancelled entirely after the question paper surfaced on the dark web, leaving over nine lakh aspirants in limbo. The Ministry of Education referred the matter to the Central Bureau of Investigation after the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre confirmed the paper had been compromised. That case remains unresolved in public memory.