On Tuesday, (DMK) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam President MK Stalin demanded scrapping of NEET for medical college admissions as the Centre had permitted for separate entrance examinations in its 11 such institutions in Tamil Nadu.
Also, in medical colleges in Tamil Nadu, admissions for postgraduate courses should not be made dependent on the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) scores, he stated.
Stalin encouraged Chief Minister K Palaniswami to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding this matter so that admissions to postgraduate medical courses could be made and 69 per cent reservation quota implemented for the equivalent.
The Head of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly additionally encouraged Palanswami to hold counselling for admissions to special medical courses for government doctors with 50 per cent reservation.
The Edappadi K Palaniswami government, which directed the Bill that gives 7.5 percent horizontal reservation in medical admissions for government school students who pass National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), seemed helpless with its rival being successful in taking the thunder.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed the bill without opposition on September 15 however the Governor, who is sat on it for longer than a month, had on October 22 looked for another “three to four weeks” before arriving at a decision, provoking the DMK to get into agitation mode.
NEET is already an emotional subject matter in Tamil Nadu and the conduct of the examination in 2017 added to a large part of the anger that the Narendra Modi-drove dispensation at the Centre and the AIADMK faced from individuals in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Taking up the issue of postponement in signing the bill that would guarantee 300 students from government schools get into dental and medical colleges, Stalin has made NEET a significant political issue in the approach the 2021 elections.
withIANSinputs
