New Delhi, July 24: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has terminated as many as 47 of its officials on Friday following the backlash over the NEET Paper leak row.

The agency is all set to initiate criminal proceedings against the wrongdoers who will be found guilty in the national-level exam row that wreaked massive outrage in the nation.

Further action is expected against many others, said sources on Friday.

As part of its major overhaul and the restructuring of the agency, the NTA will also take legal and criminal actions against some of the officials.

Sources also added that more "reformative actions" will further be taken in the future, adding that the outsourcing model will also be revamped.

Worth mentioning, the NTA is one of the leading nodal agency responsible for conducting some major national-level entrance examinations.

It conducts the NEET (UG), the National Teachers' Eligibility Test (NTET), the JEE (Main), the CUET (UG) and (PG), the UGC-NET, the National Common Entrance Test (NCET), the ICAR AIEEA (PG) and many others.

NTA’s functioning came under scanner due to the alleged NEET (UG) paper leak, with calls being made for a complete overhaul of the NTA.

Calls have also been made to scrap the NTA, with critics arguing that the organization has failed to conduct examinations fairly. However, the Center on the other hand has not yet clearly mentioned its stance.