chennai sources stated that the ruling AIADMK and principal opposition DMK on wednesday accused each other over the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) in the assembly and the government said it has filed a fresh plea in the supreme court challenging the examination. Meanwhile as soon as the Question Hour ended, leader of Opposition M K stalin said NEET went against the tenets of social justice and the interests of rural students and accused the ruling dispensation of "huge betrayal" on the issue. Furthermore he sought to know about the state filing a plea against the test in the Apex court just two days before the last date ( january 6, 2020) to apply for NEET ended.

 

Perhaps health minister C Vijayabaskar retorted saying if at all it was a betrayal, the seeds for it were sowed by the DMK when it was part of the Congress-led Centre. Also the notification for NEET was issued on december 27, 2010 by the Union government and he also said that it was only after the notification, the national test took shape and the opposition to it also had to be fought in the madras high court and later it went as far as the supreme Court. Stating that the state assembly had passed bills seeking to exempt tamilnadu from the test, he added that the government of tamilnadu was taking legal steps and also handling the matter politically to oppose the test.

 

Moreover asserting that the government continued to be firm in its policy of opposition to NEET, the minister said, "Now a petition has been filed in the supreme court challenging section 10 (d) of the indian Medical Council (IMC) Act. The main petition in the matter was still pending in the top court." Perhaps the NEET is being conducted under section 10 (d) and this section was inserted through an amendment to the IMC Act.

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