Chennai: Tamilnadu Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian on Thursday met Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi and urged him to exempt Tamilnadu from NEET exams this year.
Subramanian, who is on an official visit to the National capital to take various issues concerning the State, including to seek additional doses of Covid vaccines, tweeted: As per the path shwon by Chief Minister M K Stalin, I met Union Education Minister and urged him to exempt TN from NEET this year.
The NEET exam was scheduled to be held on 12 September this year.The Retired Judge A K Rajan committee, formed by the Tamilnadu Government to study the impact on NEET on students from socially backward sections and suggest corrective measures, submitted its report to Stalin Wednesday.
Justice Rajan said the committee obtained the opinions from 86,342 persons on NEET and majority of them expressed their opinion against the exam.
NEET is the qualifying exam for admission to UG and PG medical courses in the country.
During his visit, Subramanian put forth 13 demands to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, including establishing an All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Coimbatore. The Minister said submited a petition with the demands to the Union Minister.
Subramanian said he also urged Mr Mandaviya to allocate additional Covid vaccine doses to the State, apart from expediting the AIIMS project in Madurai.
“The Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister, seeking special allocation of one crore vaccine doses to the State. This was also conveyed to the Union Health Minister. We stressed the demand for allocation of more vaccine doses, in proportion to the population,” Subramanian said.
Apart from seeking permission for admitting students in 11 new medical colleges after due inspections by the Centre, he said he also urged the Union Minister to permit immediate opening of the Integrated Vaccine Complex set up by HLL Biotech in Chengalpattu and Pasteur Institute in Coonoor for vaccine production.