NTA credits 'Team Bharat' as over 20 lakh aspirants take NEET 2026 re-exam under massive nationwide effort
New Delhi: On 21 June 2026, more than 20 lakh candidates sat for the NEET UG re-examination across 5,440 centres in India and 14 centres abroad.
Therefore, through a notice, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has highlighted the massive nationwide effort that went into conducting the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination, describing it as a collective achievement of “Team NTA, Team Bharat.”
The agency detailed the extensive coordination among government departments, security agencies, academic institutions, and state administrations to ensure the smooth conduct of the exam.
The agency emphasized that this was not the NTA It was Team Bharat - a chain of people across the country who showed up so that, for each candidate, the only thing that mattered that morning was the paper in front of them.
CARE FOR EVERY CANDIDATE
Extensive arrangements were made for all candidates, including more than 10,000 Persons with Disabilities. Special arrangements were put in place for around 81 candidates with medical conditions, among them a child who had been in a road accident, and a child undergoing chemotherapy, who were determined not to miss an exam they had prepared for years. Reaching each of them took planning that no candidate ever sees.
A WHOLE-OF-GOVERNMENT EFFORT
Aadhaar-based biometric and face authentication, CCTV monitoring, jammers, and twolayer frisking with the support of State Police were in place across centres. Command and control centres for CCTV monitoring were established at the national level - at the NTA and at the Ministry of Education, at 34 Centrally Funded Institutions of the Department of Higher Education, in every State, and at District Collectorates.
The conduct of the examination drew on the support of CAPF, the Ministry of External Affairs, the Department of Posts, the Indian Air Force, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Ministry Of Railways, NIC, MeitY, the Department of Financial Services, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Education, and our banking partners - SBI, Canara Bank, PNB and UCO Bank, alongside State Governments and many other stakeholders.
STATES THAT WENT THE EXTRA MILE
Several State Governments made arrangements for students and parents - shade, water and food at centres, ambulances and medical facilities on standby, and in many States, free transportation for candidates on exam day. National protocol, translated into local care, centre by centre.
THE SCALE OF IT
Around 7 lakh officials - police teams, observers and examination staff - were mobilised across India to conduct this examination, and it was done in a record 37 days. NTA is especially grateful to the experts from academic institutions across the country who gave their personal time to help prepare multiple sets of question papers.
The agency concluded by thanking both the candidates who appeared for the examination and the personnel who made its conduct possible, reiterating its message: “Team NTA. Team Bharat. One exam, delivered together.”
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