National Testing Agency (NTA)

The National Testing Agency was established in November 2017 as an autonomous body under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. It is not a statutory body created by an Act of Parliament, which means it lacks the legislative accountability framework that a statutory authority would carry. NTA was created to relieve universities of the burden of conducting entrance examinations and to professionalise test administration at scale. It conducts NEET-UG, JEE Main, CUET, and several other national-level examinations.