Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin slammed the Centre for postponing NEET-PG examination and said governments must join hands and plan for a better future for aspirants and reinstalling hope and faith in their minds.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader has been opposing NEET examinations since its inception. Stalin tweeted, “The cancellation of NEET-PG by NBE, following the cancellation of UGC-NET, has thrown thousands of our doctors into deep despair.” He added, “Let us not forget the fact that these happenings are not one-off events but the final nails in the coffin of an incompetent and broken system of centralised selection.”
Stalin said there is a need to plan for a better for aspirants and said, “As this scam unravels, let us plan for a better future and join our hands - for building a fair and equitable selection process for professional courses, for ensuring the primacy of school education and making it the base for careers, for restoring the rights of states to determine their selection process for professional courses, most importantly, for reinstalling hope and faith in the minds of our students and their families.”
The union health ministry postponed the NEET-PG examination scheduled to be held on Sunday and said it has decided to undertake a thorough assessment of the robustness of processes of the NEET-PG entrance examination, conducted by the NTA for medical students.
The government has also formed a seven-member high-level panel to ensure transparent, smooth and fair conduct of examinations through the NTA. Former ISRO chief K. Radhakrishnan will lead the committee.
The NTA, the nodal agency of the competitive exams in the country, is already under scanner for the alleged irregularities and paper leak in the NEET-UG exam.
