கடந்த ஆண்டை விட இந்தாண்டு நீட் தேர்வு எளிதாக இருந்தது: மாணவர்கள் கருத்து

கடந்த ஆண்டை விட இந்தாண்டு நீட் தேர்வு எளிதாக இருந்தது: மாணவர்கள் கருத்து

கடந்த ஆண்டை விட இந்தாண்டு நீட் தேர்வு எளிதாக இருந்ததாக மாணவர்கள் கருத்து தெரிவித்துள்ளனர். 

இயற்பியல், வேதியல் பாட வினாக்கள் மட்டும் சிறிது கடினமாக இருந்ததாகவும் கூறியுள்ளனர்.

பரட்டை தலையுடன் நீட் தேர்வு எழுதச்சென்ற மாணவிகள்! -பெற்றோர் வேதனை
 
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நீட் தேர்வு எழுதவரும் மாணவிகளின் தலையை கோதிவிட்டுக் காண்பிக்க சொன்னதால் மாணவிகள் மதுரையில் பரட்டைதலையுடன் தேர்வு எழுதச் சென்ற சம்பவம் பொதுமக்களிடம் பெரும் கோபத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது.

நீட் தேர்வு நாடு முழுவதும் இன்று காலை 10 மணிக்குத் தொடங்கியது. 10 மணிக்குத் தொடங்கிய தேர்வு 1.30 மணி வரை நடைபெற்றது. பல்வேறு கட்டுப்பாடுகளுடன் தேர்வு அறைக்குச் சென்ற மாணவர்கள் தேர்வு எழுதினர். நாடு முழுவதும் 13.26 லட்சம் பேர் எழுதுகின்றனர். தமிழகத்தில் உள்ள 170 மையங்களில் மொத்தம் 1,07,288 பேர் எழுதுகின்றனர். இந்நிலையில் மதுரையில் 20 மையங்களில் 11,800 நபர்களுக்குத் தேர்வு எழுத நுழைவு சீட்டு வழங்கப்பட்டது . கண்காணிப்பாளர்களுக்கு மட்டும் 500 அறைகள் ஒதுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. 6 பறக்கும் படை குழுக்களும், 20 தலைமை அதிகாரிகளும் மதுரை மாவட்டத்திற்கு நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன . இந்நிலையில் தேர்வுக்கு நுழையும் மாணவிகளின் தோடு, வளையல், வாட்ச், ஹேர்பின், ஜடைமாட்டி உள்ளிட்டவற்றை வெளியே வைக்கச் சொல்லி அதிகாரிகள் அறிவுறுத்தினர். இதனால் தலையை கலைத்தபடி பரட்டைதலையுடன் மாணவிகள் தேர்வு சென்றதாகப் பெற்றோர்கள் வேதனைத் தெரிவித்தனர்.

Till June 13, don’t charge Rs 14 lakh fees, HC tells private medical collegeTNN | Updated: May 3, 2018, 04:24 IST


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Bombay high court

MUMBAI: In a significant interim relief for students fighting against “high fees”, the Bombay high court on Wednesday stayed till June 13 a state government decision allowing a medical college in Palghar run by a private company to charge Rs 14 lakh as fees. 

The high court was hearing a petition filed by 74 first-year MBBS students of Vedantaa Institute of Medical Sciences, Vedantaa Hospital and Research Centre, a unit of Vedantaa Institute of Academic Excellence Pvt Ltd.

The students’ lawyer Aparna Devkar argued that though the brochure said that the collection of fees would be subject to the decision of the fee regulatory authority, which had capped the fees at Rs 6 lakh, the institute was not refunding the fees. The students had challenged a government resolution (GR) of April 10 which essentially said that since the college was being run by a private company, it would not be governed by the fee regulatory authority.

The private medical college has been allowed to charge Rs 14 lakh as fees on the grounds that it is run by a private company and hence, entitled to “profiteering”.

A division bench of Justices B R Gavai and Bharti Dangre heard the matter on Wednesday.

V M Thorat, counsel for the medical college, argued that since the Medical Council of India has brought in changes to its rules, the fees being charged are legitimate. He sought time to file a reply.

The high court granted the private medical college time to file an affidavit by June 13. The bench was of the prima facie view that the impugned government resolution was in contravention of various Supreme Court judgments, the latest being Modern Dental College versus State of Madhya Pradesh in 2016. The high court stayed the government resolution till June 13. The institute has been directed to file a reply by the next date.

Two NEET aspirants lose fathers; CBSE goofs question papers again
Sunday was a day of tragedy for Kasturi Mahalingam of Vilakkudi in Tiruvarur district and Devi Ishwarya of Singampunari in Sivagangai district.

Published: 07th May 2018 04:11 AM  



An official reading out the list of students who are yet to write the NEET at Noyes MHS School exam centre in Madurai on Sunday | k k sundar

By Express News Service

Sunday was a day of tragedy for Kasturi Mahalingam of Vilakkudi in Tiruvarur district and Devi Ishwarya of Singampunari in Sivagangai district. Kasturi was among the 1500 students from Tamil Nadu who took the NEET outside the State. While he was writing his exam, his father Krishnasamy Srinivasan, who had accompanied him to Ernakulam for the test, took ill.

By the time Kasturi exited the exam centre at Thammanam, 47-year-old Srinivasan, a government librarian, had died of cardiac arrest. Later, it was learnt that J Kannan, father of Devi Ishwarya, who wrote the NEET exam in Madurai, also died. Kannan, 49, a lorry driver, had accompanied his daughter to Madurai. After the exam, he developed chest pain. He was brought dead at Government Rajaji Hospital.

Meanwhile, question paper goof ups in Madurai and Salem caused stress. In Madurai, 112 students who were to take the test at Noyes Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Narimedu started the exam late as the centre received 100 question papers in Hindi. E Georgina Jacquline, school’s principal said, “We opened the three boxes of the Tamil/English question papers minutes before the exam as per CBSE instructions and while distributing them discovered that the third box contained 100 question papers in Hindi/English.”

While 22 students started the exam at 12.30 pm, 90 students started the test at 3pm. In Salem, students at three centres were left to stew as the question papers for 195 Tamil medium students reached only at noon forcing the students to start the exam at 1pm. Tension prevailed at a Salem centre after a student was not allowed to write the exam as she produced two hall tickets.

Over a lakh students take test in TN
The NEET exam for admission to MBBS and BDS course saw around 1.07 lakh students taking the examination in Tamil Nadu. Around 24,720 opted to write the exam in Tamil.

Ex gratia for Krishnasamy family
TN announced ex gratia of D3L and funding for Kasturi Mahalingam’s future studies.

‘Little support from KL or TN’
Parents of students who took the test in Kerala complained of lack of support from both governments.

‘Physics section tough’
State board students found the Physics section of the question paper very tough.

Student with chicken pox sits for exam 

Pon Vasanth B.A 
 
MADURAI, May 07, 2018 00:00 IST

With blisters all over body, boy reaches centre from Dindigul village

Despite suffering from chickenpox, a government school student from Puliyurnatham near Oddanchathiram in Dindigul district managed to sit for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test at his designated centre, Noyes Matriculation Higher Secondary School, here on Sunday.

M. Tamilarasan, a student of Government Higher Secondary School in Muthunaickenpatti near his village, who could not wear proper clothes to cover his upper part of the body because of the blisters, came to the centre by covering his body with a dhoti.

The authorities, who were initially unsure of allowing him to take the exam, consulted senior officials and allowed him to sit for the exam in a separate classroom.

“The officials helped me well. They gave me water at regular intervals to keep myself hydrated,” he said. Tamilarasan was given some extra time to complete the exam due to the delayed permission to start answering questions.

His father S. Muniyandi said Tamilarasan attended a month-long residential NEET coaching at a centre in Thrissur and returned home only on Saturday. “In the evening, he developed symptoms of chickenpox, but they were not severe. However, later in the night, his body was full of blisters,” he said.

“He insisted on taking the exam since he had put in a lot of efforts. We had also spent a good amount of money for the coaching,” he added. Mr. Muniyandi arranged a car to bring his son to the exam centre.

“Except for Physics, I have done relatively well. I hope I will clear it,” Tamilarasan said.

Testing times for NEET candidates, parents 

Pon Vasanth B.A. and Sanjana Ganesh 
 
MADURAI, May 07, 2018 00:00 IST


Long journey from far away places, minimum facilities provided at examination centres create difficulties

Sunday started with a bundle of nerves for many as 11,341 students from various districts took National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in 20 centres across Madurai. With 459 students absent, 96.11% of the registered candidates took the test.

Police personnel and Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) officials frisked students at two points prior to their entry into the examination hall. The students were asked to remove jewellery, clips, dupattas and even socks before entering the hall. The girls experienced some discomfort when they were asked to remove duppattas. Some had bought new clothes to comply with the dress code.

Longer sleeves were cut off from a girl student’s kurta top at M.S.S. Wakf Board College, because it went against the CBSE dress code guidelines. The student’s sister said they had arrived from Manamadurai at 6 a.m. Despite reaching the exam centre on time, her sister did not have a proper place to change her kurta. Several parents registered their protest against this move.

G. Jayaprakash, a parent, said the centres should have been equipped with emergency facility such as a changing room. Many students were unaware that they should have brought additional passport size photograph apart from the one affixed on hall ticket. Hence, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Noyes Matriculation Higher Secondary School and some other centres had arranged photographers to shoot pictures. They charged Rs. 100 for 8 copies. Students in Wakf Board College, however, had to travel all the way to Anna bus stand or Goripalayam to the studios.

Parents who travelled long distances to accompany their children, particularly from districts such as Theni, Ramanathapuram, Vellore and Dindigul, said that the travel and lack of proper arrangements left them exhausted. M. Veni from Ramanathapuram said most centres did not provide proper bathroom facilities for girls and seating arrangement for parents. “After catching a bus early in the morning, we directly came to the centre. We did not book any hotel room. Where are we expected to wait for our children? Can’t they provide water or bathrooms at least?” she asked.

N. Kannan, a parent from an interior village in Theni district, said the government should have started bus services very early in the day so that students could make it to the centres on time. “I started my journey to Madurai from my village at 2 a.m. but could arrive in Theni only at 5 a.m. We were lucky to make it on time but some students could not,” he said. The students should have been allotted centres closer home so that they would not experience fatigue during the test, he said.

After the test, some of the the students said the Biology component was easy for both State Board and CBSE students but Physics was difficult. E. Ranjith from Abiramam in Ramanathapuram district said he attended coaching classes arranged by the State government. Though it helped, he could not complete the paper on time, he said.

Sharon, a student from C.S. Ramachary Matriculation School in Tirunagar, Madurai, said the paper was not very difficult but challenging. Several others echoed her opinion.

Over 100 take the test in Rajasthan 

Mohammed Iqbal 
 
JAIPUR, May 07, 2018 00:00 IST

Over 100 candidates from Tamil Nadu appeared for NEET in Rajasthan on Sunday after travelling more than 2,000 km to reach their exam centres. The exam was conducted in six cities, including Jaipur, in the State.

The NEET aspirants, mostly accompanied by their parents, arrived here by train, road and air. The Rajasthan Tamil Sangam, an association of people from the southern State who are settled in Rajasthan, had made arrangements for the students’ stay, food and transport.

However, very few candidates contacted the Sangam though it had tried to reach out to them through social media platforms, Sangam member S. Muruganandam told The Hindu .

Mr. Muruganandam said the Sangam had posted its volunteers at the railway station and bus stand to help provide food and local transport, especially to those who don’t speak Hindi.

The Sangam had earlier received calls from about 30 NEET aspirants.