Claiming Nationwide Testing Company to be “on the very coronary heart of NEET scan-dal”, Congress on Sunday accused it of creating a Rs 448-crore revenue in final six years by conducting exams and never utilizing the corpus “to construct its capabilities to conduct checks itself or to strengthen regulatory and monitoring capabilities for its distributors”.
Schooling minister Dharmendra Pradhan junked the declare.”Opposition is annoyed with their failed propaganda. Nonetheless, individuals want to know the mandate of exam-conducting organisations like NTA and CBSE, that are self-sustaining. Not like typical govt entities, self-sustaining our bodies like NTA have operational prices. The organisation has been within the detrimental since its inception,” he mentioned.
NTA rebuts Jairam declare of examination physique’s ‘Rs 448cr revenue’
Nationwide Testing Company on Sunday rebutted claims that it had made a revenue of Rs 448 crore within the final six years via conduct of exams, which sources in NTA mentioned had been “based mostly on insufficient understanding and info”.
Citing information based mostly on the reply to a Parliament query, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh had mentioned on X, “This corpus, nevertheless, has not been used to construct the company’s capabilities to conduct checks itself, or to strengthen regulatory and monitoring capabilities for its distributors.”
Ramesh shared minister of state for training Sukanta Majumdar’s reply in Rajya Sabha on July 31 to a query on NTA. In accordance with the reply, “NTA collected an estimated Rs 3,512.98 crore whereas it spent Rs 3,064.77 crore on the conduct of examinations, it subsequently netted a revenue of Rs 448 crore within the final six years”, he mentioned.
Dismissing the declare, training minister Dharmendra Pradhan mentioned, “The opposition is annoyed with their failed propaganda. The government has initiated complete examination and NTA reforms, and we’re awaiting the suggestions of the high-powered committee. Nonetheless, individuals want to know the mandate of exam-conducting organisations like NTA and CBSE, that are self-sustaining. Not like typical govt entities, self-sustaining our bodies like NTA have operational prices. The organisation has been within the detrimental since its inception.”
Ramesh earlier mentioned, “NTA is on the very coronary heart of the NEET scandal. It’s a physique of the training ministry whose solely objective is to operate by way of outsourcing to non-public distributors. Not solely do these distributors fairly often have doubtful credentials however the NTA itself is headed by an individual who presided over the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Fee, which has seen mega scams,” he added.
In response, a senior NTA official mentioned, “Having a corpus of Rs 450 crore to Rs 500 crore within the financial institution does not imply we’re within the constructive, as they aren’t contemplating the liabilities. Aside from the price of conducting exams, salaries are additionally paid from the identical assortment of registration charges.”
Schooling minister Dharmendra Pradhan junked the declare.”Opposition is annoyed with their failed propaganda. Nonetheless, individuals want to know the mandate of exam-conducting organisations like NTA and CBSE, that are self-sustaining. Not like typical govt entities, self-sustaining our bodies like NTA have operational prices. The organisation has been within the detrimental since its inception,” he mentioned.
NTA rebuts Jairam declare of examination physique’s ‘Rs 448cr revenue’
Nationwide Testing Company on Sunday rebutted claims that it had made a revenue of Rs 448 crore within the final six years via conduct of exams, which sources in NTA mentioned had been “based mostly on insufficient understanding and info”.
Citing information based mostly on the reply to a Parliament query, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh had mentioned on X, “This corpus, nevertheless, has not been used to construct the company’s capabilities to conduct checks itself, or to strengthen regulatory and monitoring capabilities for its distributors.”
Ramesh shared minister of state for training Sukanta Majumdar’s reply in Rajya Sabha on July 31 to a query on NTA. In accordance with the reply, “NTA collected an estimated Rs 3,512.98 crore whereas it spent Rs 3,064.77 crore on the conduct of examinations, it subsequently netted a revenue of Rs 448 crore within the final six years”, he mentioned.
Dismissing the declare, training minister Dharmendra Pradhan mentioned, “The opposition is annoyed with their failed propaganda. The government has initiated complete examination and NTA reforms, and we’re awaiting the suggestions of the high-powered committee. Nonetheless, individuals want to know the mandate of exam-conducting organisations like NTA and CBSE, that are self-sustaining. Not like typical govt entities, self-sustaining our bodies like NTA have operational prices. The organisation has been within the detrimental since its inception.”
Ramesh earlier mentioned, “NTA is on the very coronary heart of the NEET scandal. It’s a physique of the training ministry whose solely objective is to operate by way of outsourcing to non-public distributors. Not solely do these distributors fairly often have doubtful credentials however the NTA itself is headed by an individual who presided over the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Fee, which has seen mega scams,” he added.
In response, a senior NTA official mentioned, “Having a corpus of Rs 450 crore to Rs 500 crore within the financial institution does not imply we’re within the constructive, as they aren’t contemplating the liabilities. Aside from the price of conducting exams, salaries are additionally paid from the identical assortment of registration charges.”
