Overview
- The Home Ministry approved CISF cover on Sunday and 39 CISF personnel have been assigned to screen and control access to demarcated confidential areas at the NTA’s new 55,000‑sq‑ft office in the Government of India Press building on Minto Road.
- NTA officials say confidential operations were shifted to the Minto Road site over the past month and that CISF teams will carry out frisking, X‑ray baggage checks and door‑frame metal‑detector screening at entry and exit points.
- A CBI chargesheet in the NEET‑UG leak case named three subject experts and found that lack of frisking and absence of a dedicated CCTV live‑feed monitoring room allowed question content to be copied onto small chits.
- The agency is rolling out technical safeguards including stronger encryption, immutable logging, tamper‑evident storage, live CCTV monitoring and an exam‑day cyber‑incident response, while advertising a CISO post and continuing independent CERT‑In and C‑DAC audits.
- Officials say CISF handover to full responsibility could take two to three months with CRPF providing interim security, and authorities view the package of physical, procedural and cyber reforms as essential to restore credibility for millions of NEET candidates and pending task‑force recommendations.