Payanmaram
Oct 22, 2017
The State tried to pass an ordinance exempting NEET for Tamil Nadu for a year. The victim had represented before the Supreme Court. However, she received a negative response to her petition.  After her suicide, protests by students and student organizations and individuals and groups erupted across the state demanding ban of NEET. The Governments (Center) has still stood by its claim to proceed with a Common Entrance Test ignoring the damage posed to this section of students. The State Government now claims to eliminate inequality by sharing online material and question bank to help students, poor students prepare for this exams. This, without doubt, is flawed as it assumes that these socially and economically backward children have access to smart phones and internet connection or porbably assumes that they will receive funding from some NGO to train them!  On 20/10/2017, as per media reports, they now claim to open State Funded Coaching centers claiming to do the same training in par to the highly priced Private NEET coaching center counterparts available in urban India. This again is flawed, for even before NEET, hardly 30 Government students made it to the Medical Institutions, clearly indicating that a lot of improvement needs to happen in existing Government (State) Run Higher Secondary Schools in the first place. Now, the claim that some newly planned State Run Coaching centers, yet to hire qualified trainers will do the miracle of training these under-served children for the NEET exams and make them ready to compete with their CBSE curriculum armed, wealth armed, specially trained student counterparts can be nothing more than an eyewash bringing us to the same question of “Why is NEET even necessary?”. To improve quality of education, when the Government should simply be working on improving the quality of its existing State Run institutions, what it is doing wasting its limited money, resources and time, trying to create unnecessary complexities for its already established and still under-developing education system. This simply further deprives these poor children and puts them to disadvantage. Every social worker and statistics will approve that a lot of energy and will is required to strengthen the existing institutions in the first place. There was another related case/petition pending in court which was conveniently not tried before the enforcement of NEET!
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