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Panel on NEET impact to table report in a month
The government on Thursday appointed members for Justice AK Rajan (retired) led high-level Committee to study the impact of NEET on socially backward students in the state.
Chennai
The committee has been given a month to review the statistics and make necessary recommendations to the government to protect the interest of backward students in the state.The committee chaired by retired  judge  AK  Rajan  would  have  as  its  members  Dr  GR  Ravindranath  of  DASE  (Doctors Association for  Social  Equality), Dr Jawahar Nesan, principal  secretaries  of  the  state health and school education departments and secretary of law department and officer on special duty for health and family welfare and director of medical education.
Additional director of Medical Education Movement  would  be  member  cum  secretary/coordinator  of  the  committee,  which  would  study if socially backward students of the state were affected by NEET, and if they were affected, it would recommend alternative  medical  admission  methods for NEET.
The  nine-member  committee has also been advised to recommend  the  probabilities  and legalities involved in implementing the alternative admission methods to the state government. Chief  Minister  MK  Stalin,  who announced the formation of the committee over a week ago, passed orders on Thursday for appointing the members.
The committee is seen as the first step ahead in the ruling DMK fulfilling its poll promise of scrapping NEET, which was one of the major talking points during  the  Assembly  election  campaign. An official statement issued  in  this  regard  by  the  state government said that Tamilnadu  government  would  take further action (on the is-sue) after studying the recommendations of the committee.
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