The uproar began when the 17-year-old girl’s father told the media that his daughter, who was taking her first-ever NEET exam, had not yet recovered from the “terrible experience” of taking a test that lasted more than three hours without a bra.
A Kerala Minister is asking the Centre to act on claims that ladies were made to take off their bras before sitting the NEET medical entrance exam in Kollam, Kerala, on Sunday.
The following are the story’s top 10 points:
1. The NEET exam center superintendent in Kollam told the National Testing Agency that the police complaint made by a girl’s father was “fictitious and filed with ill intents”
2. The uproar began when the 17-year-old girl’s father told the media that his daughter, who was taking her first-ever NEET exam, had not yet recovered from the “terrible experience” of taking a test that lasted more than three hours without a bra.
3. The girl was allegedly requested to take off her bra after the girl’s metal bra hooks beeped during a security check at the exam site, the Mar Thoma Institute of Information Technology, according to the father’s complaint.
4. “Are you more concerned about your innerwear than your future? Remove it immediately and save us the time, “Security employees were reported in the father’s complaint as stating.
5. In addition, “90% of female students had to remove their inners and preserve them in a backroom,” according to the complaint.
6. The National Testing Agency stated today that the “NEET dress code does not enable any such action mentioned by the parent of candidate:” despite the testing center’s denial of the accusation.
7. In a letter to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Kerala Higher Education Minister R Bindu demanded harsh action against the organization that was reportedly responsible for forcing the girls to remove their bras before granting them admission into the exam room.
8. The Kerala minister described the NEET exam as a “naked assault on the dignity and honor of the girl students” and expressed her “dismay and horror” at it.
9. Ms. Bindu advised taking firm, deterrent measures, writing that “the shame and shock of this unanticipated turn of events have damaged the morale and composure of the pupils whose performance in the test was therefore affected.” The agency has simply been given the responsibility of performing the examination fairly, the minister wrote, so we take the severe issue to such barbaric behavior from them.
10. The Kerala police have filed a complaint against those who allegedly asked people to remove their underwear during security checks.
