: TN Assembly passes Bill for admission to medical courses without NEET after 19-year-old’s death #IndiaNEWS The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday passed a Bill to scrap the National Eligibility cum Entrance

TN Assembly passes Bill for admission to medical courses without NEET after 19-year-old’s death #IndiaNEWS
The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Monday passed a Bill to scrap the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for admission to undergraduate medical degree courses in the state, PTI reported. The Bill sought to admit students to these courses based on the marks they got in the Class 12 board examinations. Earlier, admissions in Tamil Nadu were based on these marks, but the Centre in 2017 made NEET compulsory for students across all states and education boards.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin introduced the Bill a day after a 19-year-old student from Salem district, who was supposed to sit for the exam, died allegedly by suicide, The Hindu reported.During Monday’s proceedings, all parties, including the Opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, its ally Pattali Makkal Katchi and the Congress, supported the Bill. Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party opposed it and walked out of the Assembly.The chief minister said that the state’s higher secondary syllabus was of “sufficient standard??? and the Bill aimed to ensure social justice, according to The Times of India.Scrapping NEET was one of the key promises of Stalin’s party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, ahead of the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu that were in April.NEET was prepared by the Central Board of Secondary Education and based on its own syllabus,...Read more

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