Kamal calls NEET ‘killer exam’, Anbumani dubs it ‘student killer’

Kamal calls NEET ‘killer exam’, Anbumani dubs it ‘student killer’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:23.09.2021

MNM leader Kamal Haasan and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss have demanded that the Centre do away with the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) “to protect social justice”.

While Kamal urged the Tamil Nadu government to wage a legal battle against what he dubbed was ‘uyir kolli’ (killer exam), Anbumani termed the entrance test as “maanavarkolli” (killer of students).

Their demand comes days after the Justice A K Rajan committee report on the impact of NEET was made public by the Tamil Nadu government. The committee made it loud and clear that NEET was an exam “that kills lives” (students). The report has also listed out the adverse impact and revealed that it favoured CBSE students and those who studied in English medium schools.

Kamal insisted that the purpose behind the NEET exam was commercial. “This has been verified as 90% of the medical students, who pass this exam, are trained in private coaching centres. This makes it difficult and puts a question on students who cannot afford to pay for such expensive coaching,” said Kamal Haasan in a statement on Wednesday.

“Since the beginning, I have been saying that commercialisation is behind NEET. The data (in the A K Rajan committee report) has confirmed it,” said the actor-turned-politician. He said NEET would destroy the state medical infrastructure, which is the best in the country.

Anbumani tweeted demanding the Centre do away with NEET. He pointed to Maharashtra Congress leader Nana Patole's letter to CM Uddhav Thackeray demanding scrapping of NEET and said, “It is proof that NEET is anti-social justice” and it is an "early sign that an anti-NEET wave is all set to begin across the nation".

UP IN ARMS: (L-R) Kamal Haasan, Anbumani Ramadoss