Med aspirant’s suicide rocks assembly
Min Blames UPA Govt For NEET Debacle
Julie.Mariappan@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 06.06.2018
The suicide of S Pradeepa, a medical aspirant who failed to clear NEET, rocked the state assembly on Tuesday, with the AIADMK and opposition parties locking horns over the issue. The DMK, and its allies, the Congress and the IUML walked out of the House in protest after health minister C Vijayabaskar squarely blamed the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for conceptualising NEET for medical and dental admissions.
There were heated exchanges when DMK leader M K Stalin moved a calling attention motion over the suicide of the Villupuram student on Monday, hours after the result was declared. “We lost Anita last year and Prathiba, daughter of a coolie, this year. Krithiga of Ginjee struggles for life after attempting suicide. Don’t understand how many we would lose,” the DMK leader said, alleging that competitive examinations would leave the students in distress. Stalin said the Union government even failed to take notice of the requests to compensate for the translation errors by CBSE in Tamil question paper. “It only proves the Centre’s stepmotherly treatment towards Tamil,” he charged.
The DMK leader said that only 45,336 students passed the national competitive exam of 1.4 lakh students appeared in TN. Only one student from TN could make it to the top 50, while most of the beneficiaries of NEET are from North India. “The dreams of TN students of becoming doctors are shattered,” he said, accusing the government of failing to get the President’s assent for the two bills - Tamil Nadu Admission to MBBS and Dental Courses Bill, and TN Admission to Postgraduate Courses in Medicine and Dentistry Bill - unanimously passed in the assembly last year to bypass NEET. Stalin took a dig at the government, reminding it of certain Central ministers questioning the state government’s claims of sending the bill to the Centre. Tempers rose when Vijayabaskar said MCI’s NEET proposal came in during the Congress regime, in which the DMK was a constituent.
Stalin retorted that the DMK government ensured that there was no NEET for medical admissions until 2011, despite being part of the UPA. Seeking to reiterate the AIADMK government’s anti-NEET policy, Vijayabaskar said the state exerted pressure on the Centre in all possible ways. When it was about to succeed, Nalini Chidambaram moved the court against NEET exemption for Tamil Nadu. “I am duty bound to blame Nalini Chidambaram. “They” have two policies, politics and business, but AIADMK government does not have any such policy. We got a negative order in the case filed by Nalini Chidambaram and that is known to the entire world. Don’t know how the Congress members forget these facts,” the minister said, wondering why the Congress did not prevent “its associates” from resorting to such move. School education minister K A Sengottaiyan said that government set up 412 coaching centres and trained 72,000 students for taking the online test.
INCONSOLABLE: Relatives of S Pradeepa in front of her house in Villupuram on Tuesday
Min Blames UPA Govt For NEET Debacle
Julie.Mariappan@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 06.06.2018
The suicide of S Pradeepa, a medical aspirant who failed to clear NEET, rocked the state assembly on Tuesday, with the AIADMK and opposition parties locking horns over the issue. The DMK, and its allies, the Congress and the IUML walked out of the House in protest after health minister C Vijayabaskar squarely blamed the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for conceptualising NEET for medical and dental admissions.
There were heated exchanges when DMK leader M K Stalin moved a calling attention motion over the suicide of the Villupuram student on Monday, hours after the result was declared. “We lost Anita last year and Prathiba, daughter of a coolie, this year. Krithiga of Ginjee struggles for life after attempting suicide. Don’t understand how many we would lose,” the DMK leader said, alleging that competitive examinations would leave the students in distress. Stalin said the Union government even failed to take notice of the requests to compensate for the translation errors by CBSE in Tamil question paper. “It only proves the Centre’s stepmotherly treatment towards Tamil,” he charged.
The DMK leader said that only 45,336 students passed the national competitive exam of 1.4 lakh students appeared in TN. Only one student from TN could make it to the top 50, while most of the beneficiaries of NEET are from North India. “The dreams of TN students of becoming doctors are shattered,” he said, accusing the government of failing to get the President’s assent for the two bills - Tamil Nadu Admission to MBBS and Dental Courses Bill, and TN Admission to Postgraduate Courses in Medicine and Dentistry Bill - unanimously passed in the assembly last year to bypass NEET. Stalin took a dig at the government, reminding it of certain Central ministers questioning the state government’s claims of sending the bill to the Centre. Tempers rose when Vijayabaskar said MCI’s NEET proposal came in during the Congress regime, in which the DMK was a constituent.
Stalin retorted that the DMK government ensured that there was no NEET for medical admissions until 2011, despite being part of the UPA. Seeking to reiterate the AIADMK government’s anti-NEET policy, Vijayabaskar said the state exerted pressure on the Centre in all possible ways. When it was about to succeed, Nalini Chidambaram moved the court against NEET exemption for Tamil Nadu. “I am duty bound to blame Nalini Chidambaram. “They” have two policies, politics and business, but AIADMK government does not have any such policy. We got a negative order in the case filed by Nalini Chidambaram and that is known to the entire world. Don’t know how the Congress members forget these facts,” the minister said, wondering why the Congress did not prevent “its associates” from resorting to such move. School education minister K A Sengottaiyan said that government set up 412 coaching centres and trained 72,000 students for taking the online test.
INCONSOLABLE: Relatives of S Pradeepa in front of her house in Villupuram on Tuesday
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