Delhi Police and CRPF personnel detained protesters outside the National Testing Agency (NTA) office here on Monday after some demonstrators attempted to breach police barricades during a protest over
the UGC-NET June 2026 examination.
The protesters, including members of left-leaning student organisations, were seen raising slogans and confronting police and paramilitary personnel deployed outside the NTA office.
The demonstration came a day after the NTA announced re-examinations for the English, Commerce and Sociology papers of UGC-NET June 2026 following complaints over errors in the question papers. An expert committee found factual, typographical and translation errors, as well as significant repetition of questions.
The re-examinations for the three subjects are scheduled for September 9 and 10, with candidates not required to pay any additional examination fee.
NSUI अध्यक्ष विनोद जाखड़ के नेतृत्व में कार्यकर्ताओं ने NTA के खिलाफ जोरदार विरोध प्रदर्शन किया। pic.twitter.com/7itYB8qnun
— Lakshya Varshney (@Lakshya70269397) August 17, 2026
The protest was also attended by UGC-NET aspirants and members of student groups, with a heavy police and paramilitary presence outside the NTA office.
The demonstration comes amid demands for greater accountability over the conduct of the examination and concerns raised by candidates about the quality of the question papers.
The NTA has said the decision to hold fresh examinations for the three subjects was taken to ensure fairness to candidates after the issues identified in the papers could not be adequately addressed through the normal answer-key challenge process.
