NEET Bill: TN Law Dept sent reminder to Raj Bhavan in December
The Hindu
Information revealed under an RTI application shows that the TN Law Dept sent a reminder on Dec 1 last year; on Dec 17, the Raj Bhavan told the RTI applicant that the NEET Bill file was “under consideration” of the Governor
The Tamil Nadu Law Department had, in December last year, sent a reminder to the Governor’s Secretariat on the Bill to dispense with NEET-based admissions for undergraduate medical courses, which was passed by the Legislative Assembly in September. This has come to light in a response from the Law Department to an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
In an application dated November 22, 2021, P. B. Prince Gajendra Babu, general secretary of State Platform for Common School System (Tamil Nadu) had sought to know the status of the Bill, which requires Presidential assent. Responding to this, Law Department Under Secretary K Sakthivel has informed Mr. Gajendra Babu on January 6 that a reminder was sent to the Raj Bhavan on December 1 last year.