Tamil Nadu: A day after a candidate of National
Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) allegedly committed suicide who was
supposed to sit for the exam, the Tamil Nadu Assembly has introduced and passed
a Bill to scarp the NEET for taking admission undergraduate medical degree
courses in the state.
According to the newly introduced bill, students can take admission to these courses based on their marks of Class 12 board examinations. Earlier the admission process was same in the state but in 2017 Centre made NEET compulsory for all the state.
The Bill was introduced by the Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday.
During Monday's proceedings, all parties, including the Opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, its ally Pattali Makkal Katchi and the Congress, supported the Bill. However, the members of BJP walked out opposing the bill.
The chief minister said that the state's higher secondary syllabus was of "sufficient standard" and the Bill aimed to ensure social justice.
NEET was prepared by the Central Board of Secondary Education and based on its own syllabus, which was very different from the Tamil Nadu board's syllabus. For this reason, Tamil Nadu has been opposing the examination, arguing that a common entrance test would harm the prospects of state board students.
To study the impact of NEET on aspirant's socially disadvantaged sections of society, earlier in June DMK has set up a high-level committee comprised by retired Madras High Court Judge AK Rajan.
Stalin added that the committee found that NEET favoured "mainly the affordable and affluent segment of the society while equally thwarting the dream of pursuing medical education by the underprivileged social groups".
The 19-year old aspirant of Salem District on Sunday committed suicide hours before the NEET exam.
Police said that no suicide notes were found but suspecting due to exam fear he committed suicide as earlier also he failed to clear the teat twice.
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