AIADMK prime chief O Panneerselvam on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to abolish the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test and different related examinations for all skilled and different programs. A day after Chief Minister M Ok Stalin urged Modi to cancel all nationwide degree 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.
Till her demise in 2016, late AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa had strongly opposed NEET and AIADMK authorities (2011-21) opposed all of it alongside and two Bills had been additionally adopted in the Assembly in 2017 however to no avail, Panneerselvam stated in a letter to Modi. Listing the difficulties confronted by Tamil Nadu college students, particularly these belonging to socially and economically backward teams, he stated there’s a want for separate teaching to take the check since it’s modelled on NCERT-CBSE curriculum and so they can’t afford the payment charged by teaching centres.
Introduction of NEET has made it tough for aspirants from the marginalised communities in Tamil Nadu to pursue medical schooling, he stated. Sanctioning 11 medical schools for TN in current instances, apart from the AIIMS in Madurai and cancellation of the twelfth class CBSE board examination had been properly obtained and extremely appreciated, Panneerselvam, popularly referred to as OPS, stated.
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 permit states to make admission primarily based on the marks obtained by college students in their larger secondary examination and “for which act of kindness,the people of Tamil Nadu will ever be grateful to you,” the AIADMK chief stated. 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 in opposition to 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 stated a panel could be arrange to determine on awarding marks to college students and such marks shall be the factors for admission to school programs.
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