From next year, no other state centre for NEET candidates

“Number of NEET exam centres will be increased from next year. Therefore, candidates need not go out-of-station to write the test,” the Minister said, adding that exam centres would be established in every district where there are about 4,000 candidates.

When asked about several errors in the Tamil NEET question paper, Javadekar said since he does not know the language, he was not aware of it. “If there were mistakes, we will ask the Tamil Nadu government to henceforth send good translators to ensure error-free question papers,” he added.

The Union Minister also said that NEET questions were not confined to only the CBSE syllabus. “The authorities have been clearly instructed to set questions from other streams and state syllabi as well,” he noted.

Stating that the Centre will soon be releasing a new national education policy, Javadekar said the draft will be finalised soon. “Once it is approved, the policy will be released,” he said and claimed that the new policy, which is from 2020 to 2040, will play an important role in the education sector. The Minister also pointed out that the new education policy will generate more employment for youngsters in the future.

Javadekar was here in the city to interact with college students across the state in connection with the progress of first hardware edition of “Smart India Hackathon 2018”.