Tamil Nadu Opts Out Of Medical Exam NEET With New Bill

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Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Assembly today passed the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Medical Degree Courses Bill which seeks to prevent medical admissions on the idea of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for college kids of the state. Now, all medical admissions within the state are going to be supported marks obtained by students in school 12. All parties, except the BJP, supported the Bill.
While introducing the Bill, Chief Minister MK Stalin said, “The state is empowered to manage medical admission consistent with the Constitution’s Schedule VIII, List III and Entry 25. As a results of this government’s and other parties’ legal struggle within the state, we scripted history by getting 27% reservation for OBCs altogether India quotas. within the NEET issue too, MLAs of all parties should help pass the Bill unanimously to script history in social justice.”

The Bill challenged a central law and can make a difference only with the Presidential assent.

The chief minister had on June 5 constituted a high-level committee headed by retired justice AK Rajan to review the impact of NEET and therefore the mushrooming coaching centres. supported the findings of the panel, the govt recommended the immediate elimination of NEET.

The committee, consistent with the govt , has said NEET favours only the rich and therefore the elite sections, equally thwarting the dream of pursuing medical education by the underprivileged social groups.

NEET has affected the agricultural and urban-poor students from government and Tamil-medium schools, particularly those whose families earn but ₹ 2.5 lakh a year, the committee said.

NEET doesn’t ensure merit or standard. It only empowered low-performing students to urge admission into MBBS which the state’s healthcare system are going to be badly affected without enough doctors at the first Health Centres if NEET continues, it further said.

For nearly a decade, Tamil Nadu had no entrance exam for medical admissions. During the UPA regime, its ally – the DMK – had managed to urge the Presidential assent for exemption.

However, the AIADMK government couldn’t get an equivalent exemption from its ally – the BJP. The Supreme Court, too, had ruled in favour of staying the NEET.

Dr Vijayabhaskar, AIADMK MLA and former state health minister, said, “We are supporting this. let’s examine if this strategy works.”

A study of medical admissions four years before and after NEET shows nearly a 10-time dip in state board students securing medical admission, from 380 to only around 40. But there’s an exponential rise in CBSE students making it, from a mere three to over 200, almost a 70-time high. an outsized majority of them had taken private tuition to crack the test. an outsized percentage of candidates cracked NEET after preparing for 2 to four years.

It is a first-of-its-kind study on the impact of NEET in medical admissions through the prism of social justice, economic backwardness beyond reservations.

Chief Minister MK Stalin hopes these findings will get the support of the Supreme Court and other Chief Ministers also . regardless of the result , NEET will remain in Tamil Nadu a minimum of for medical admissions this year.

On Sunday, hours before taking the NEET for the third time, 19-year-old aspirant Dhanush died by suicide. 14 others, including some toppers, have died within the previous couple of years after failing to crack the NEET.