The National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted to select assistant professors framed questions in Hindi for the Kannada language paper, a Congress MP informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

L. Hanumanthaiah, the MP, pointed out that the University Grants Commission (UGC) had outsourced the NET to the National Testing Agency, which conducted the exam in December 2021. The test has a general paper and a paper on the subject of specialisation. The students who opted for Kannada had to face the language glitch, Hanumanthaiah said.

“Out of 100 questions, only 10 questions were in Kannada and 90 were in Hindi,” the MP from Karnataka said.

Hanumanthaiah informed the Rajya Sabha that the NTA uploaded one more question paper after sometime but that too was “not correct”. The Telegraph could not contact him to seek a clarification on what he meant by “not correct”.

Hanumanthaiah said many students could not log in to appear for the NET and those who could not attempt the questions in Hindi got results that said “not completed”.

“I request the government to cancel this examination and conduct a re-examination and give justice to the students who have been affected,” he said.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu asked the minister of state for education, Subhas Sarkar, to look into the matter. Sarkar said he would take it up.

An NTA official said a re-exam had already been held after the “technical glitch”.

“Those who could not appear were given a fresh opportunity to take the test,” the official said.

This is not the first time the latest NET edition has faced allegations of mishandling. The All India Students Association (AISA) had earlier alleged that the NET Hindi paper had been leaked in Kurukshetra in Haryana in December.