Medical seats for under-graduates and post-graduates remaining vacant in the NEET era, together with the Centre freezing the number of medical colleges and seats in (Dravidian) Tamil Nadu and the launch of the PM s Vishwakarma Scheme for the nation s craftsmen, are all seen as a bid to further reverse the state s progressive socio-economic agenda of and its achievements of the past hundred-plus years, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.
NEET has been conducted since 2013. The strong political opposition to the exam was triggered by the suicide, in 2017, of Anitha, a 17-year-old Dalit girl who was a school topper but had been unable to clear NEET.
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Flagging the 16 suicide deaths of students over NEET in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday urged President Droupadi Murmu to accord her assent at the earliest to the state s anti-NEET Bill.
Writing to the President, Stalin pointed to the "unfortunate consequences" due to the delay in the grant of approval to the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Medical Degree Courses Bill, 2021 and urged her to provide assent immediately.