Nearly 45,000 NEET candidates, parents benefit from Delhi govt’s special arrangements
According to officials, nearly 45,000 candidates and parents benefited from the facilities provided at the cooling zones set up by the Delhi government.
Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor took to Instagram on June 22 to share a viral video showing a father collapsing outside a NEET re-examination centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha. The post drew fresh attention to an incident that had already begun circulating widely on social media. Kapoor wrote, “I dont know the rules and regulations but I hope and pray that this girl perhaps gets her chance to sit and try and give the exam to maybe build a future for herself and her family.”
What happened outside the exam centre
An 18-year-old girl named Ragini from Kulhan village in Madhya Pradesh was denied entry for reaching the exam centre just one minute late. Due to a slight delay in biometric verification and errors in the admit card, the student was barred from entering the exam centre.
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The footage surfaced showing her father pleading with officials to allow his daughter to appear for the exam. After haggling with the staff, the father went straight to slam his head on the gates and then collapsed on the ground, leaving the daughter shell-shocked. She fell to the ground and hugged her father, crying uncontrollably.
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Videos surfaced on social media a day after the NEET retest that showed the father and daughter breaking down in tears, pleading with the officers to let her in. “Sarkar jab kya soraha thi leak hue jab (Was the government sleeping when the leak happened)?” the father was heard asking as they stood outside the gate. The daughter was also seen trying to convince the security officers to let her in, asking, “Do you know how far we have come?”
The family’s background
It was reported that the father worked for a daily wage of Rs 300 and used to borrow money to finance his daughter’s education. Ragini, who studied in the village school till the eighth grade, had to travel many kilometres for further education. After excelling in the twelfth grade, she used the scholarship and borrowed money to buy a laptop for the NEET exam.
Ragini and her father left home early. But due to heavy rain and punctured tyre, they were late reaching the examination centre. Students who arrived late, including Ragini, were allowed into centre, but the biometric verification could not be completed as the time limit had passed.
Not the only case in MP
Ragini was not alone. At the Girls’ College Re-NEET examination centre in Vidisha, three students missed their chance to appear for the exam due to a slight delay, biometric issues, and an admit card mistake. Another candidate was unable to take the examination after reaching a venue different from the one mentioned on the admit card and not arriving at the designated centre within the prescribed reporting time.
Why the re-exam was held
The re-examination on June 21 was itself the result of a major controversy. The exam, originally held on May 3, 2026, for over 2.27 million aspirants, was cancelled on May 12, 2026, following investigations that revealed significant overlaps between a pre-circulated guess paper and the actual question paper. The CBI took over the investigation on May 12 and announced the arrest of several individuals, including a Pune-based chemistry professor described as a main accused with links to NTA processes.
More than two million medical aspirants took a second shot at the NEET re-exam on June 21 after the original test was cancelled. NTA said the exam was conducted across 5,440 centres in India and 14 centres abroad.
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