The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley while presenting the General Budget 2017-18 in Parliament today said that the Government proposes to establish a National Testing Agency as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct all entrance examinations for higher education institutions. This would free CBSE, AICTE and other premier institutions from these administrative responsibilities so that they can focus more on academics.

National Testing Agency proposed to centralize entrance examinations, creating an autonomous self-sustained body to relieve academic regulators. Proposal to create a National Testing Agency as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct all entrance examinations for higher education institutions, centralizing test administration and shifting those responsibilities away from existing academic regulators so they may focus on academic functions.