Recipe for Disaster: NTA Handles 25 Public Exams with Less Than 25 Permanent Staff Members
G.S. Mudur, Basant Kumar Mohanty | 24 June 2024 | The Telegraph
The National Testing Agency handles 25 public exams with less than 25 permanent staff members, according to education domain experts, one of whom said the Centre had gambled with the exams by directing the agency “to bite more than it was intended to chew”.
The agency, handicapped by inadequate in-house expertise, has outsourced paper-setting, paper distribution and data security protocols to external experts, including private technical service providers, according to former education administrators and higher education faculty familiar with the NTA’s operations…