'Entire Batch Deprived of Chance' as National Talent Search Examination Skips 2022: Report
New Delhi: The National Talent Search Examination has not taken place in the year 2022 for the first time in its 60-year history, TheTelegraph has reported.
The NTSE is a popular scholarship programme, funded by the Union education ministry. The move affects a whole year of students as the exam's rules stipulate that only Class 10 students can apply for it, Telegraph notes.
Scholarships of Rs 1,250 a month are awarded to students of Classes 11 and 12 under the scheme. Rs 2,000 is paid to students every month as they study through undergraduate and post-graduate courses.
The paper reported that in late 2021, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) had announced that the 2022 exams will be postponed.
It did not elaborate on what the reasons were.
"There has been silence ever since, suggesting a lack of interest on the part of the government, which sources said was sitting on a review panel’s recommendations to reform the exam," the report notes.
In October last year, the news agency PTI had reported that NCERT has stalled the NTSE scheme till further orders, according to an official order.
"The scheme was approved till 31st March 2021," the NCERT said in the October official order, PTI reported.
"The further implementation of the scheme in its present form has not been approved and stalled until further orders," it said.
The ministry allegedly planned to revamp the exam format but had not set a timeline for it.
Telegraph quoted unnamed officials as having said the NCERT-appointed committee that reviewed whether the scheme was serving its purpose had handed in its recommendations to the Union education ministry last September.
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