Abolish NEET, urges Stalin
DMK treasurer and Opposition leader in the
Assembly M.K. Stalin on Tuesday urged the State government to adopt a
resolution in the Assembly to dispense with the National Eligibility and
Entrance Test (NEET) for admission in medical colleges.
In a statement here, Mr. Stalin said that the ordinance
promulgated by the Centre had provided temporary relief to the students in the
country and it would not be a permanent solution.
“The State government should unanimously adopt a resolution
urging the Centre to cancel the NEET after holding a proper debate in the
Assembly,” he said.
DMK treasurer MK Stalin today urged
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to get a resolution passed in the state Assembly to
prevail upon the Centre to ensure that there is no entrance examination for
medical admissions in Tamil Nadu.
He was referring to Centre's ordinance that exempted state government medical colleges from the Supreme Court-mandated single All India entrance examination for a year.
He was referring to Centre's ordinance that exempted state government medical colleges from the Supreme Court-mandated single All India entrance examination for a year.
"A resolution should be adopted
in the Assembly to urge the Centre that entrance examinations should be fully
done away with in Tamil Nadu (in future also)."
The resolution
should be adopted unnanimously, he said in a Facebook post and urged the chief
minister to "ensure that there is no entrance examination in Tamil Nadu."
Entrance
examinations for professional courses like medicine and engineering were
rescinded in 2006 to protect the interests of minorities, rural, backward, most
backward and Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe students, he recalled.
"Entrance
examination will shatter the aspirations of rural, poor students, backward, SC,
ST, and minorities," he said adding social justice should be protected.
On May 24, Ms Jayalalithaa in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked the Centre to ensure that entrance examination for medical admissions "is not forced" on Tamil Nadu in future too as its implementation would "nullify" the State's welfare oriented initiatives and socio-economic objectives.
On May 13, addressing an election rally at Palayamkottai, she had said steps would be taken to see that there was no entrance test. She had also said if necessary, a legislation would be enacted to ensure status quo of admitting students based on their class XII marks.