Tamil Nadu Assembly Passes Resolution Urging Centre To Scrap NEET

The resolution passed in TN Assembly also urged the Centre to allow state governments to conduct medical admissions based on Class 12 marks as was the case before the implementation of NEET.

Currently, NEET is mandatory for admission into MBBS and BDS programs across the country. ( Image Source :X/@ANI )

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin on Friday moved a resolution in the state Assembly, urging the union government to scrap NEET and allow state governments to conduct medical admissions based on Class 12 marks, as was the practice before the implementation of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). 

Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously passes the resolution against NEET brought by Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin.

Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously passes the resolution against NEET brought by Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin.

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Currently, NEET is mandatory for admission into MBBS and BDS programs across the country.

The resolution, passed by the House despite opposition and a walkout by the BJP, urged the Centre to amend the National Medical Commission Act and eliminate the nationwide screening test, citing irregularities and growing opposition in several states that align with Tamil Nadu's stance.

While the BJP opposed the resolution, their ally, the PMK, supported it. Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin, who introduced the resolution, argued that the test was discriminatory, depriving rural and poor students of opportunities for medical education and stripping states of their right to admit students based on Class 12 marks.

BJP leader Nainar Nagendran defended the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), emphasizing its numerous benefits. Addressing concerns about the difficulties faced by poor and rural students in pursuing medical education due to the test, he noted that then Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda and then Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami had implemented a 7.5 percent reservation for state government school students who passed the test.

Earlier, the DMK unit in Puducherry appealed to Chief Minister N. Rangasamy to introduce a resolution in the Assembly requesting an exemption from the NEET examination and forward it for the President’s consideration.