The Congress on Sunday (October 11, 2026) said a Parliamentary Standing Committee report had catalogued the “grave incompetence and malpractice” in the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the Ministry of Education, and hoped the Modi government “sheds its arrogance for the limited time it has remaining” and takes the report seriously.
The Congress said the Committee’s report, titled “Reforms and Strengthening of the National Testing Agency (NTA),” had highlighted that the Ministry of Education made the “blatantly false” claim to the panel that no paper leak had occurred in an exam conducted by the NTA since its formation in 2017.
In a statement, Jairam Ramesh, the Congress general secretary in-charge of communications, said the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, under the chairmanship of Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Wasnik, “catalogues the grave incompetence and malpractice in the NTA and the Ministry of Education.”
Sharing the statement on X, Mr. Ramesh said, “GyaneshGate is dominating the news now, but three months ago it was NTAgate that had launched the youth protest movement. Here is our statement on the NTA, based on the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education that has just been submitted to the Chairman, Rajya Sabha.”
Listing the main highlights of the report, Mr. Ramesh said the Ministry made the “blatantly false and audacious claim” to the Committee that no paper leak had occurred in an NTA exam from its formation in 2017 until 2025. “There have been 9 paper leaks and irregularities in NTA-conducted exams that we know of. What hope is there for a fair investigation or accountability when the Ministry even refuses to acknowledge what went wrong in the first place?” he said.
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