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New Delhi: Calling the National Testing Agency (NTA) a “National Torturing Agency” due to its repeated failure to conduct examinations effectively, the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Monday, June 9, demanded the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan “within ten days”, and said it would march to the Ministry of Education on June 19 if its demand was not met. The student body also demanded scrapping of the NTA, citing repeated controversies over the exams it has conducted, especially the latest NEET-undergraduate exam to select medical aspirants, which had to be cancelled over a paper leak.

Among SFI’s key demands is the creation of a more transparent examination and evaluation system in place of the NTA. Speaking at the Press Club of India on Monday, leaders including Adarsh M. Saji, president of SFI; Subhash Jakhar, the vice president; Srijan Bhattacharya, the secretary; and Aishe Ghosh, the joint secretary, said the student body was planning to approach the courts to scrap the testing agency.

“NTA, in its nearly ten years of existence, has been........

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