The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday cleared a proposal for the creation of a National Testing Agency (NTA), to conduct entrance tests which are at present being conducted by the CBSE. The proposal for a centralized testing agency was shared in the Budget 2017. The sole purpose of the National Testing Agency, NTA was to relieve Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE from its duties of conducting entrance examination so as to focus on improving the quality of higher education in country.
With NTA, it is likely that entrance examinations like JEE Main, NEET, NET, CTET and other entrance tests presently conducted by CBSE, would be conducted twice a year from 2019 onwards. An official statement said the NTA will be created as a Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860, and as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing…
