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National Testing Agency- Vineet Joshi
April 25 , 2018
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- The Government has appointed former CBSE chairperson and Secretary Vineet Joshi as the director general of the National Testing Agency.
- An order regarding this was issued by the Department of Personnel and Training
- Vineet Joshi is 1992-batch IAS officer of the Manipur cadre.
- Joshi has been appointed to the director general post for five years in National Testing Agency.
National Testing Agency
- Union Cabinet has recently approved the creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions.
- It will be registered as a society under the Indian Societies Registration Act.
- It will act an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization chaired by eminent educationist appointed by Ministry of HRD.
- The setting up of NTA was announced in the union budget of 2017-18.
- It would initially conduct those entrance examinations which are currently being conducted by the CBSE (NEET, JEE etc).
- The entrance examinations will be conducted in online mode at least twice a year, giving adequate opportunity to candidates.
- It will be given a one-time grant of Rs.25 crore from the Government to start its operation in the first year. Thereafter, it will be financially self-sustainable.
- It will relieve CBSE, AICTE, and other agencies from the responsibility of conducting the entrance examinations.
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