Friday, June 7, 2019

Ayush: Docs’ assn seeks exemption from NEET

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:07.06.2019

As admission to medical colleges gets tougher, doctors’ associations are demanding exemption from NEET for admission to Ayush courses in Tamil Nadu.

On Thursday, Doctors Association for Social Equality general secretary Dr G R Ravindranath said the state has failed to get an exemption from NEET for MBBS despite having good relationship with the the Centre. “The state should have pressed for a presidential nod for the resolution it passed in the state assembly exempting itself from NEET. This year they must get exemption at least for Ayush,” he said.

The Union health ministry has made amendments to the existing legislation that has made NEET mandatory for admission to all Indian medicine and homepathy courses. State health minister C Vijaya Baskar had earlier told reporters that seeking exemption from NEET is a policy decision that has to be made after detailed deliberation and debate. The center, he alleged, was not transparent while they declare the NEET results. They don’t put scores of students and common rank list community details or state-wise details openly.

“As students don’t know the number of students who have scored high, they will not be able to plan for counselling,” he said.

“Neither the centre nor the state have been able to fix fee for deemed universities. Most colleges charges nearly ₹1crore as MBBS fee,” he said. The state must provide compensation of at least ₹50 lakh to students who committed suicide for not scoring well, Dr Ravindranath said.

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