Plea challenges UGC-NET June 2026 re-test, HC seeks NTA response

The Delhi High Court has sought a response from the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the Centre on a plea challenging the decision to re-conduct the UGC-NET June 2026 for the English subject. The court issued notice to the Central government and NTA on a plea by a candidate who appeared in the UGC-NET June 2026 examination. The petition claims that the decision to re-conduct the examination is arbitrary, unreasonable, procedurally unfair, and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution.

The UGC-NET June 2026 examination was conducted from June 22 to 30 across 87 subjects for award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), eligibility for assistant professor, and admission to PhD programmes. The NTA received several complaints about multiple errors in the question papers of the three subjects and formed a committee to look into these issues.

The committee reported that the three papers had many factual, typographical, and translation errors, including mis-spelt names of prominent scholars, garbled book titles, errors in the stem wording of questions, grammatical errors, gender and number agreement errors, punctuation mistakes, and non-standard coined terms for established concepts, as well as repetition of a significant number of questions previously administered.

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