Sunday, June 4, 2017

Jun 04 2017 : The Times of India (Chennai)
NEET must be scrapped, TN govt to tell Madras HC

Chennai:


The Tamil Nadu government plans to tell the Madras high court that National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-2017 (NEET) for MBBSBDS admissions be scrapped. The court has already stayed all proceedings, including declaration of results, and the case is scheduled to come up for hearing on June 7.Officials told TOI that there was no uniform question paper for all languages and there was a conflict of interest as CBSE was asked to set the paper for students from all boards. “Since there was nothing uniform about the examination, the very purpose of a common entrance is defeated. Students writing in some languages had it easier than the others. Also, when CBSE has its own board why is it asked to set the question paper?
Won't there be bias,“ asked a senior official.
On May 24, the Madurai bench of the Madras high court stayed till June 7 all proceedings on NEET after some students sought its cancellation, claiming it was not fair to students writing in different languages.The bench asked respondents, including the state health and family welfare secretary, to file their counters on June 7.
“We have been opposing common entrance since the beginning although the Union health ministry and MCI have been pushing for it. As we expected, NEET was unfair to some students,“ the official said.
After NEET, based on a Supreme Court order, was made the sole criterion for medical and dental admissions in the state, health minister C Vijaya Baskar on January 31 moved two Bills, seeking to exclude TN from it.
While the state had to admit students to PG courses based on NEET-PG marks, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and senior ministers have been lobbying with Union ministers J P Nadda and Prakash Javadekar to exempt TN from the test by getting presidential assent for the state legislation. “We are still hopeful we will be allowed to use Class XII marks for MBBS admissions to state-run colleges,“ said Vijaya Baskar.
CBSE has already said the stay is likely to delay the result, leaving thousands of students and parents worried.

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