It is a proposed agency which will conduct examinations for higher and secondary education.
What will it do?
- Establishment of NTA will free CBSE, AICTE and other agencies from conducting various exams and enable them to focus on their core areas and work on improving the quality of education.
- Its main purpose is to bring reforms in the education system.
- Initially examinations like IIT, NIT and even university exams will be conducted by NTA.
- Later on secondary school exams will also be handed over to it.
- Initially, the CBSE staff will be deployed in this department and but later on the specialised people will be hired in the NTA.
Why was it needed?
Last year, the CBSE had asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to conduct the National Eligibility Test (NET) on its own as the board wanted to focus on its core areas and work on improving the quality of education. CBSE even had conveyed to the HRD Ministry that conducting exams for various government bodies puts a lot of burden on them and stretches its resources.