New Delhi, Nov 10: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday approved the creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions. The agency will be registered as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860.
The agency would initially conduct those entrance examinations which are currently being conducted by the CBSE. Other examinations will also be taken up gradually after NTA is fully geared up. The entrance examinations will be conducted in online mode at least twice a year, thereby giving adequate opportunity to candidates to bring out their best.
Establishment of the agency will benefit about 40 lakh students appearing in various entrance examinations. It will relieve CBSE, AICTE and other agencies from the responsibility of conducting these entrance examinations, and also bring in high reliability, standardized difficulty level for assessing the aptitude, intelligence and problem-solving abilities of the students.
