Fate hangs in NEET balance: Aspirants

There are many students who dedicated an entire year for NEET preparations and the sudden development will not be in their favour. In fact, Mukesh Kanna, who is said to be the state topper in from Tamil Nadu with an All-India rank of 260 quit his Mechanical Engineering course in August 2016 to prepare for NEET. The fate of students like him are hanging in balance and he is not alone. 

Akash (name changed on request) says, “I was focused on preparing for NEET and studied just enough for the boards. Now, I do not know what to do and where to go because I am not very confident about the cut-off based on the class 12 board exam results.” 

Doctors’ Association for social Equality is also demanding a provision given to these students. “We always been demanding for permanent exemption of NEET. There were so many confusions around NEET this year. There were one set of students who focused more on the NEET preparations and another set that focused on scoring well in the Class 12 board exam. We want the government come up with a comprehensive solution that will cater to the needs of both the sets of students,” says G R Ravindranath of DASE.

Protest in Kovai: 

Demanding justice for the hard work they had put for NEET, MBBS aspirants and their parents picketed the entrance of the district collectorate in Coimbatore on Thursday.

Over 100 aspirants who had come out with flying colours in NEET, and their parents came to the Collectorate on Thursday morning for petitioning the government through the collector. However, Collector TN Hariharan chose to attend an election review meeting chaired by Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Malik Feroz Khan, without meeting the students. Upset and agitated, they entered the Collectorate despite efforts by the police to stop them.  

Alleging that many private schools do not teach Class 11 syllabus as their focus is on the Class 12 board exams, these MBBS aspirants said that they had studied the Class 11 syllabus too to clear NEET. Stating that the announcement for NEET was made clear last year, they alleged that exemption for the State from NEET has shattered their dream of becoming doctors. 

Later the parents and students petitioned the district collector.