The ongoing controversies around #NEET highlight its fundamentally inequitable nature. In a society where education has been denied for thousands...
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin cited Gujarat police examination scam FIRs to condemn NEET, demanding the Union government dismantle the anti-poor testing system.
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The ongoing controversies around #NEET highlight its fundamentally inequitable nature. In a society where education has been denied for thousands of years, we should offer more opportunities for advancement of the oppressed. On the contrary, NEET hinders the opportunities of such students.
Despite the Union Education Minister's defense of the National Testing Agency (NTA), recent events paint a different picture. The Gujarat Police have registered an FIR over allegations of invigilators tampering with OMR sheets in exchange for monetary benefits, involving cheques worth several crore rupees and eight blank cheques. This conspiracy, implicating a school principal, a physics teacher, and several NEET coaching centres, underscores the urgent need for systemic change.
From martyr Anitha to the countless students who have tragically taken their own lives, we have witnessed enough.
NEET, an examination masquerading as a measure of merit, has repeatedly revealed itself as a pervasive scam affecting all levels of society. The Union government must stop defending this anti-student, anti-social justice, and anti-poor NEET system.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin condemned the Union government's ongoing defense of the National Testing Agency, pointing to fresh criminal revelations in Gujarat as conclusive evidence that the NEET examination operates as a pervasive commercial scam. Stalin highlighted an FIR registered by Gujarat Police involving allegations of exam invigilators, coaching centres, and a school principal tampering with OMR sheets in exchange for cheques worth several crore rupees, demonstrating that the centralized testing mechanism is deeply compromised.
Stalin argued that in a country where education was historically denied to lower castes for millennia, the state must expand access rather than erecting exclusionary testing barriers. He reiterated that NEET masquerades as a meritocratic assessment while systematically discriminating against underprivileged, rural, and vernacular-medium students who cannot afford expensive private coaching syndicates.
Recalling the tragic suicide of medical aspirant Anitha and numerous other young victims, Stalin asserted that the human cost of NEET is intolerable. He demanded that the Union government abandon its stubborn defense of the NTA, abolish NEET immediately, and restore medical admission authority to state governments to protect social justice and student futures.