A department-related Parliamentary standing committee on education, women, children, youth and sports, headed by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, has asked the Centre to publish a time-bound roadmap for implementing the recommendations of the High-Level Committee on Education (HLCE) on exam reforms. In a report tabled in Parliament on June 17, 2026, the panel noted that paper-related irregularities continue to cause cancellation of examinations and anxiety among students, despite a monitoring mechanism created after the NEET-UG 2024 controversies. The HLCE, set up after the NEET-UG 2024 controversy, submitted its report in October 2024, recommending reforms in national entrance testing, strengthening of the National Testing Agency (NTA), greater coordination with states and staggered examinations. A high-powered steering committee headed by former ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan was later constituted to oversee implementation. The panel observed that paper irregularities are still happening: NEET-UG 2026, held on May 3, was called off on May 12 following allegations of a paper leak, including overlaps between a pre-circulated guess paper and the actual paper. More than 2.27 million candidates appeared, and a re-examination is scheduled for June 21. The committee also pulled up the higher education department over delays in publishing the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE), criticised the lack of a CABE meeting since 2019, and flagged slow progress of the Institute of Eminence scheme, with only 12 of 20 institutions notified nearly eight years after its 2017 launch.