Chennai:
Tamil NaduFight for exemption National entry and eligibility testOr NEET – All -India Admission Tests for Admission to Medical Courses – President Drupadi Murmu faced a shock on Friday after rejecting a bill to exclude the state from its purview and allowed to use class XII points instead.
Chief Minister MK Stalin informed the state Legislature twice – 2021 and 2022, rejection of a bill given twice – and was pending with the central government since then.
Assembly also passed in June last year, unanimously, A resolution that urges the central government to scrap NEET The system and the states allow the entry to the school mark.
Responding to rejection today, Mr. Stalin – who has fights with the BJP -led Center on at least two major issues, Delimitation exercise And ‘Hindi toha’ linePrior to next year’s election – it was said that the southern state was “insulted” and spoke of “black phase in federalism”.
“Despite providing all the necessary explanations by the Tamil Nadu government … the central government has rejected exemption from NEET,” Mr. Stalin said in the assembly.
The Chief Minister called for meeting all the legislature parties to take decisions at the next stages. He said that struggle for exemption from NEET – Mandatory for admission in 2017 – will continue.
The meeting of all MLAs is likely to be held on 9 April, sources have said.
He said, “The central government may have rejected the request of Tamil Nadu … but our fight is over. We would consult legal experts that we can ask to challenge this decision.”
The state challenge for the NEET system has been running for a long time.
The primary argument is that it benefits students from rich families and classes of society as they can improve intensive coaching and prep required to pass the exam. Switch to use class 12 points as admission criteria, the state has argued, ensure social justice.
In recent years, there is an uproar on NEET amidst many controversies, in which young people are dying of suicide as they cannot clean the leakage of examination and examination papers.
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Last year, for example, the Supreme Court heard the petitions seeking a re-examination of the 2024 NEET-UG test, which was leaked 45 minutes before the examination.
The court dismissed the petitions and said that the ‘sanctity’ of the examination was not violated.
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And it is not just Tamil Nadu who is protesting against the current system.
last July Bengal joined the fight, passed a resolution against the examState Education Minister Batiya Basu said that the ruling Trinmool was never in favor of the All India Examination.
Other prominent opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi of Congress and Rashtra Janata Dal leader, Tejashvi Yadav in Bihar, have also spoken on Neet Ro.
With input from agencies
