Irked over Centre’s nod for INI-CET, Stalin demands abolition of NEET
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Chennai:18.11.2020
DMK leader M K Stalin on Tuesday slammed the NDA government at the Centre for excluding educational institutions that come under the central government from NEET. Questioning the exemption, he demanded the abolition of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).
“The Centre betrayed Tamil Nadu by refusing to exempt the state from NEET,” Stalin said in a statement, while questioning the rationale behind the Centre allowing AIIMS and other central government institutes to conduct their own entrance examination (INI-CET) “Why this contradiction,” he asked.
He further criticised the Centre for setting up an INICET centre for Tamil Nadu students at Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh. Stalin also found fault with the exam fee, dubbing the disparity between fee of ₹2,000 for OBC (BC and MBC) students and ₹1,500 for students under the new economic weaker sections the “epitome of social injustice”.
Stalin also demanded that the Union government permit 69% reservation in admission of students to medical colleges in Tamil Nadu and urged chief minister Edappadi K Palanniswami to take appropriate efforts to ensure the same.
Meanwhile, AMMK leader T T V Dhinkaran took to social media to register his protest against the Modi government for adopting different yardsticks in conducting entrance exams for institutues run by the state and Union governments. “It is not appropriate to conduct a separate entrance exam for postgraduate medical courses for Centre government-run institutions,” he tweeted and said it was “unjustifiable” when it arbitrarily allocates seats in state-run institutes. He added that the Centre's approach, suppressing the state’s rights and acting against federalism, would be a “historic blunder”.
DMK chief M K Stalin accused the Centre of betraying Tamil Nadu by refusing to exempt the state from NEET and questioned the exemption granted to central government institutes
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