Following a wave of panic for a local medical aspirant who was suddenly allotted an examination center in Abu Dhabi for the NEET-UG re-exam, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has officially resolved the crisis, assigning the student a center back in his home city of Nagpur.
The emergency rectifications came just hours before the nationwide medical entrance exam scheduled for Sunday, June 21, 2026.
While the student’s family initially alleged a massive “administrative error” or technical glitch on the agency’s part, the NTA released an official statement on Saturday evening clarifying that their internal digital footprint showed the choice originated from the candidate’s own account.
Web Records Detail Single-User Activity
According to the NTA’s digital audit, the international center change was not a random administrative lapse. The agency’s web-activity logs revealed a consistent, single-user access pattern during the open correction window.
“Our web-activity records indicate that the city change in this case was made through the candidate’s own registered login during the open correction window,” the NTA stated on X. “The center was changed to Abu Dhabi using the candidate’s credentials, and the Abu Dhabi center assignment was previewed twice after that.”
Urgent 48-Hour Intervention Prevents Passport Crisis
The issue escalated when the family of the aspirant, Abdullah, realized they had been assigned an international venue with zero time to arrange mandatory passports, visas, or flight tickets.
Though the agency’s data pointed to user modification, NTA officials stepped in on humanitarian grounds to protect the student’s career path:
The NTA received an informal distress request from Abdullah’s family exactly 48 hours before the exam. Testing personnel immediately initiated an override and contacted Abdullah’s father that same evening to fast-track the formal correction. NTA Director-General Abhishek Singh confirmed to ANI that the discrepancy had been successfully rectified, ensuring Abdullah could take his exam safely in Nagpur.
Scale of the Correction Window
The NTA explained that the examination-city correction window had been briefly reopened to accommodate massive logistical adjustments following the rescheduling of NEET-UG 2026.
Approximately 3.2 lakh candidates utilized this window to shuffle their location preferences. The agency added that it has successfully delivered the preferred examination city to over 99.5% of the total students appearing for the re-test.
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