The Tamil Nadu Assembly has passed a bill to waive the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET). A look at the provisions of the permanent exemption bill for NEETs in Tamil Nadu.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday passed a bill to waive the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) and allow admission to medical courses on the basis of grade 12 grades to “ensure justice social “.
When Chief Minister MK Stalin introduced the bill to the National Assembly, almost all other parties, including the main opposition party AIADMK and its ally PMK, supported the bill. The BJP, however, staged a strike to protest against it.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday passed a bill to waive the National Income and Eligibility Test (NEET) and allow admission to medical courses on the basis of grade 12 grades to “ensure justice social “.
When Chief Minister MK Stalin introduced the bill to the National Assembly, almost all other parties, including the main opposition party AIADMK and its ally PMK, supported the bill. The BJP, however, staged a strike to protest against it.
The retired Madras High Court judge said the report was prepared after analyzing around 86,000 representations from various stakeholders, most of whom said they did not want NEETs.
The provisions of the permanent exemption bill for NEETs in Tamil Nadu
- The NEET Permanent Exemption Bill exempts aspiring doctors in Tamil Nadu from taking the NEET exam for admission to UG courses in Indian medicine, dentistry and homeopathy.
- Instead, it seeks to allow admission to these courses on the basis of qualifying exam scores, through “standardization methods”.
- The aim of the bill is to guarantee “social justice, to defend equality and equal opportunities, to protect all vulnerable student communities from discrimination,” the government said.
- The bill aims to bring vulnerable student communities to the “mainstream of medical and dental education and, in turn, to ensure strong public health care statewide, especially in rural areas.”
- The bill opposes NEETs because “it has undermined diverse social representation in MBBS and higher medical education, mainly favoring the economic and wealthy sectors of society and frustrating the dreams of disadvantaged social groups”.
- NEET is not a fair or equitable method of admission, as it has favored the wealthy and elite sectors of society, the preamble to the bill to overthrow NEETs.
- The preamble adds that the high-level committee that conducted a detailed study on NEETs concluded that if this continued for a few more years, the Tamil Nadu health system would be severely affected and there might not be enough doctors in primary health centers or state hospitals and that the rural and urban poor may not be able to attend medical courses.
- Admissions to medical courses can be traced to entry 25 of List III, Annex VII of the Constitution and, therefore, the state legislature is competent to regulate it, the Declaration of Objects and Reasons (SoOAR) of the Project of law.
- On Sunday, a few hours before taking the National Eligibility and Entry Test for the third time, a 19-year-old from a village in Tamil Nadu committed suicide.
- While the main AIADMK opposition blamed the DMK regime for his death, Stalin targeted the Center for its “stubbornness” on the issue and claimed to have passed a bill in the Assembly on September 13 to “exempt definitely “Tamil Nadu of the question. .
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