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Will NEET be Cancelled in Tamil Nadu in 2021?
Tamil Nadu Government has passed Anti-NEET Bill 2021 in sate assembly today to ban NEET exam in the state. The bill says, “NEET is not an equitable method of admission”. Students would now get admissions to UG Medical courses, based on the qualifying HSC +2 marks.
Is NEET exam is Cancelled in Tamil Nadu?
After Tamil Nadu banning the exam in the state, even Maharashtra Congress Chief Nana Patole has raised similar demands. Patole said that NEET exam not just causes injustice but is also a reason of inequality and hence the state’s students must be exempted from giving the exam.
What is Ban NEET?
Tamil Nadu government on September 13, 2021, passed a bill to ban NEET in the state. The committee was formed by Chief Minister MK Stalin on June 10, 2021, in order to study how the medical entrance exam impacts the students. The Tamil Nadu committee had eight members and it included several eminent people such as Dr.
Is NEET there in Tamil Nadu?
It is mandatory to have passed the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical college admissions across India. The Tamil Nadu government claims that NEET is a centralised exam and is conducted only on a single day.
Is NEET going to be banned in India?
Tamil Nadu government on September 13, 2021, passed a bill to ban NEET in the state. Before passing the Tamil Nadu NEET ban bill, the government took into consideration the recommendations of the committee headed by Retired Justice AK Rajan.
Why don’t people in Tamil Nadu protest against the NEET?
Anitha, like Rosa Parks, moves the apolitical Tamil city dweller to tears. The reason why other states which are comparable to Tamil Nadu in many aspects, such as Maharashtra, aren’t protesting as much is because NEET does not disturb the basis of their social contract. In Tamil Nadu, it does.
Are NEET student suicides endemic to Tamil Nadu?
While the focus of sustained anti-NEET protests centred in Tamil Nadu, an outcome of the suicide of S. Anitha, a NEET aspirant from Ariyalur who had scored 1,176 out of 1,200 in the state board’s higher secondary examination but failed the NEET, gives a perception that student suicides linked to NEET is endemic to Tamil Nadu.
Is NEET an assault on the rights of States?
The idea of NEET being implemented against the wishes of the state in the name of standardising entrance criterion across the country is not just an assault on the rights of the states, but is also bad policy. A file photo shows parents of the students preparing for medical entrance exams forming a human chain to protest NEET in Tamil Nadu.
Will at least half of Tamil Nadu’s population have a college education?
In other words, at least half the population will have had a college education in Tamil Nadu, if this trend continues for a few more years. It’s in this context that one needs to situate Anitha, a 17-year-old Dalit medical aspirant and a National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) petitioner who recently committed suicide .