No med counselling until NEET bill gets assent: Law minister

No med counselling until NEET bill gets assent: Law minister

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Chennai:18.10.2020

A day after the state government informed the high court that it would not issue prospectus for medical admission till a decision was taken by governor Banwarilal Purohit on the bill to provide 7.5% horizontal reservation to government school students who qualify Neet, law minister C Ve Shanmugam was more forthcoming on Saturday and said that the state would not hold medical counselling until the bill was given assent to by the governor.

The government sent the bill, which was unanimously passed by the legislature, on September 15 and since then there has been huge expectation among the Neet aspirants from government schools.

“The chief minister has taken a good decision that until the governor gives his assent to the bill, the medical counselling will not be held,” Shanmugam said in Villupuram. Shanmugam accompanied chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami while the latter visited Raj Bhavan on October 5 to persuade the governor to give assent to the bill. The government wants to introduce the quota in the current academic year itself.

In Pudukkottai, health minister C Vijayabaskar said that it was the chief minister who was instrumental in introducing the bill in the legislative assembly.

“We are confident of getting the governor’s assent to the bill, which was passed in the assembly,” said the minister, who has been facing the wrath of the opposition for Tamil Nadu students not getting exemption from NEET.

“It is the dream of our CM to get the students of poor families admitted in medical education and he is taking all efforts to get assent to the bill,” school education minister K A Sengottaiyan said.