Students’ role vital in getting NEET relief: MP

Students’ role vital in getting NEET relief: MP

Trichy:4.10.2021

The role of the student community in consolidating the voice against the national eligibility-cum-entrance test (NEET) for selection to MBBS course is vital to getting exemption for Tamil Nadu from the test, said speakers at a state-level conference organised by Students’ Federation of India (SFI) here. Members of Parliament, educationalists and writers who attended the conference said the conduct of the test invades the state’s autonomy and demotivates medical aspirants.

DMK Rajya Sabha MP Tiruchi Siva said there is a perception that only Tamil Nadu is opposing the entrance test, which must be changed by mobilising anti-NEET protesters from other states. Unity among NEET opponents was the need of the hour. “If we can achieve a solution in the projallikattu movement, why not in NEET? SFI’s role is vital to gather support across India. We must bring back education under the state list,” he said. He claimed that the AIADMK government did not take dedicated measures to get an exemption for the state. General secretary of the state platform for the common school system, Prince Gajendra Babu, said the Union government has to uphold the spirit of federalism by giving exemption to Tamil Nadu in NEET. TNN