Chennai: AIADMK prime chief O Panneerselvam on Sunday (June 6) urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to abolish the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and different related examinations for all skilled and different programs.
A day after Chief Minister M Ok Stalin urged Modi to cancel all nationwide stage assessments like NEET and permit Tamil Nadu to fill skilled seats, together with the MBBS, primarily based on class 12 marks, Panneerselvam backed the DMK authorities’s place, reported information company PTI.
“Till her death in 2016, late AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa had strongly opposed NEET and AIADMK government (2011-21) opposed it all along and two Bills were also adopted in the Assembly in 2017 but to no avail,” Panneerselvam mentioned in a letter to the Prime Minister.
Listing the difficulties confronted by Tamil Nadu college students, particularly these belonging to socially and economically backward teams, he mentioned there’s a want for separate teaching to take the check since it’s modelled on NCERT-CBSE curriculum and so they can not afford the payment charged by teaching centres.
Introduction of NEET has made it troublesome for aspirants from the marginalised communities in Tamil Nadu to pursue medical schooling, he mentioned.
Sanctioning 11 medical faculties for TN in current occasions, in addition to the AIIMS in Madurai and cancellation of the twelfth class CBSE board examination have been properly obtained and extremely appreciated, Panneerselvam, popularly often called OPS, mentioned.
Similarly, OPS, a former Chief Minister and in addition Deputy CM requested Modi “to take a uniform policy decision to abolish not only the NEET for enrolment in medical courses but also the common entrance examinations for all the professional and other courses forever.”
The Centre ought to enable states to make admission primarily based on the marks obtained by college students of their increased secondary examination and “for which act of kindness,the people of Tamil Nadu will ever be grateful to you,” the AIADMK chief mentioned.
Almost all political events of Tamil Nadu, together with the DMK and AIADMK, had for lengthy opposed NEET.
One of the grounds for his or her opposition is that such assessments went towards social justice and denied alternatives to college students from socially deprived teams and aspirants from rural areas. NEET continues to be one of many a lot politically debated points in Tamil Nadu.
On June 5, TN authorities introduced cancellation of sophistication 12 state board public examinations and mentioned a panel could be arrange to resolve on awarding marks to college students and such marks shall be the factors for admission to faculty programs.
