Reportedly in the latest move to voice resistance to the common entrance test for admissions into medical courses across the country, the government of tamilnadu has filed a fresh writ petition in the supreme court seeking an order to declare the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) unconstitutional. Meanwhile this is Tamilnadu’s first independent petition challenging the amendments made by the government of india in the Medical Council of india Act and the Dental Council of india Act making NEET a mandatory and the sole criteria for admitting students to medical and dental courses in the country. 

 

Furthermore the petition filed on saturday states that NEET is against the welfare of students from rural backgrounds in tamilnadu and provides instances by which NEET has adversely affected a major share of students in the state.  When speaking to TNM about the newest petition, a highly placed source in the government of tamil Nadu said that the petition has data to explain why the state has been demanding an exemption from the entrance exam. Perhaps the government of tamilnadu has also stated that the number of repeaters who have been giving NEET for the second or third time and cracking the exam is on the rise, which puts students from rural and underprivileged backgrounds in the disadvantage. 

 

Moreover adding that tamilnadu has been successfully producing exceptional medical professionals even before the advent of NEET, the source said that all the petitions pending in the supreme court around NEET date back to 2010-11. 

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