"NEET An Injustice": Tamil Nadu Congress Urges Chief Minister's Intervention

All efforts should be taken by Chief Minister M K Stalin to remove the "injustice" caused by the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K S Alagiri said here on Monday.

All efforts should be taken by Chief Minister M K Stalin to remove the "injustice" caused by the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K S Alagiri said here on Monday. As regards Tamil Nadu, students belonging to socially disadvantaged groups like the Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes studying in government schools are seriously affected due to the NEET exam, Mr Alagiri said. However, students who are from the CBSE stream and private schools get more opportunities to study medicine and this was "injustice," Mr Alagiri added. As a replacement to NEET, an expert committee should be appointed to set criteria, and admissions to medical colleges should be based on reservation policy and primacy must be given to students of government schools, he said and urged CM Stalin to take appropriate measures. In view of the pandemic, the Tamil Nadu government days ago cancelled class 12 board exams. Admission to college courses would be based on school marks, to be awarded based on a criteria, following recommendations of a panel, the government had said. Citing data, the Congress leader said that in 2018-19 and 2019-20, though 700 aspirants from state-run institutions had cleared NEET, only nine of them got admission in government medical colleges.