Petition updateNEET denies equal opportunity for the marginalized children, be it any state. Ban NEET.Appeal to UN High Commission
Payanmaram
Jul 20, 2018 — From: payanmaram Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:05 PM Subject: Urgent Appeal - Violation of basic rights of children taking NEET (National Eligibility Entrance Test) for medical admissions To: urgent-action@ohchr.org Cc: payanmaram-board-of-trustees@googlegroups.com, Scpcr Tn Respected Special Rapporteur, Despite repeated attempts to project to the Government, the vulnerable situation of rural and poor children, and despite commencement of free coaching for these children very late, without a equally standardized curriculum in the State, the Central Goverment proceeded to ensure that the NEET system of evaluating meritorious children was hastily pushed across the Nation. However, now, the question papers were are erroneously translated for these children learning in their mother tongues. A child in a local language medium of instruction cannot know the entire vocabulary of corresponding highly technical English equivalents used in the different sciences. While the high court understood the issue and ordered award of grace marks for faulty questions, the Supreme court has blindly failed to understand the same and stayed the High court decision. The Supreme court with such a judgement creates a feeling of negative bias towards a particular ethnicity (Tamil children). We are sorry to report you by email, as such reporting is not feasible via the online reporting format available. Hence we are requesting the High Commission to urgently look into the matter and protect the rights of these children which has been violated year on year. We are attaching the media reports which elaborates about the issue and to understand it requires no high technical knowledge but simple common sense. It could make sense if the court wants to distinguish the Tamil medium and English medium children of the state to refine it further. However, to simply refuse such grant of grace marks for faulty questions is further tormenting and victimization of students studying in their local tongue who are mostly again only the Government school children who are in the rural and vulnerable sections. News Reports: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sc-stays-madras-hc-order-giving-196-grace-marks-neet-tamil-students-85089 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/ngo-points-out-49-translation-errors-in-neet-tamil-question-paper/articleshow/64091378.cms Petition with 930 petition: https://www.change.org/p/national-neet-denies-equal-opportunity-for-the-marginalized-children-be-it-any-state-ban-neet Best Regards, Indu Priya 9900213043 Co-founder, Payanmaram Trust
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