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NTA DG News:  The Director General of the National Testing Agency (NTA), IAS Subodh Kumar Singh, was discharged from his post by the central government on Saturday night. His removal came after a massive row erupted over irregularities in the NEET UG 2024 and UGC-NET examinations conducted by the NTA. Both the exams face allegations of paper leaks. As the NEET protests intensified across the country, NTA DG Subodh Kumar Singh has been sent to compulsory waiting by the government.

Union Government has appointed retired IAS Pradeep Singh Kharola as the Director General of NTA. He will assume the additional charge of NTA DG for the time being. Kharola, after retirement, is posted as the chairman of the India Trade Promotion Organisation.

An IAS officer of the 1997 batch, Subodh Kumar Singh has completed his B.Tech and M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has also completed his MBA from IGNOU, New Delhi. The 50-year-old officer joined the Chhattisgarh cadre and had served at many key posts in the state. In his 23 years of service in the state, Subodh Kumar Singh has served as joint secretary and deputy secretary in the personnel and general administration department.

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As a confidant of then BJP Chief Minister Raman Singh, Subodh Kumar Singh worked as special secretary and director for personnel management, and secretary to the CM. During his tenure in Chhattisgarh, Singh was credited with bringing digitisation to CMO, bridging the crucial road connectivity gap to Naxal-hit areas and transforming the situation of the mineral industry of the state.

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Subodh Kumar Singh also won national awards for various works undertaken as an IAS officer. He was awarded by the Ministry of Rural Development in 2002 for excellence in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.