Chennai: Tamil Nadu government is likely to remain silent on the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (Neet) issue and has decided not to send any communication to the Centre seeking extension from the national-level entrance exam after burning its finger last year.
A highly placed official, who is aware of the exchange of files between the health department and the Centre confirmed that there is no recent communication between the centre and the state on the crucial students’ issue, which created uproar last year following the suicide of anti Neet campaigner Anitha.
Both the Centre and the judiciary had let down the state affecting the students last year. Further, it is a politically sensitive issue, where bureaucracy has very little to do, quipped the official source evading queries by DC.
“The state is not in a position to comment, if there are any proposal sent to Centre seeking Neet exemption. However, 14,231 students from Tamil Nadu had appeared for PG Neet early this year and are awaiting results. The special classes for Neet aspirants are already in progress indicating that the students will appear for Neet and there will not be any exemption this year”, said another official.
Says a professor of medicine attached to a government medical college, “Any decision can be made now only after the review of the Supreme Court order.
They have asked us not to create further confusions in the NEET and as per a recent direction of the Madras High Court, doctors cannot comment. It has taken more than a year for the judiciary and the policy makers to understand the issue and the matter is still pending”. “Whatever be the outcome of verdict, justice delayed is justice denied”, the professor rued.
“The state is not in a position to comment, if there are any proposal sent to Centre seeking Neet exemption. However, 14,231 students from Tamil Nadu had appeared for PG Neet early this year and are awaiting results. The special classes for Neet aspirants are already in progress indicating that the students will appear for Neet and there will not be any exemption this year”
Coaching centres not adequate for Neet: PMK
PMK MP Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday accused the Tamil Nadu of not opening adequate coaching centres to prepare for the Neet scheduled in the first week of May.
Accusing the state government of not doing enough to get exemption from Neet for students from Tamil Nadu, he faulted the administration for not opening enough coaching centres to help the students.
“The state government has failed to implement its promise of opening enough number of coaching centres for students studying in the government-run schools to prepare for Neet,” he said, adding of the 412 centres promised, only 100 have begun functioning.
“With just a week left in January and with Class XII students set to be preoccupied with board exams during entire March, there is hardly any time left for the students to prepare for Neet,” he said.
