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From the state of Tamil Nadu, there is 17% increase in the NEET applications
Posted on: 14/Dec/2018 10:13:05 AM
The truth that was revealed now is many students belonging to the state of Tamil Nadu want to study medicine after finishing their plus 2. This has been shown in the increase in the number of candidates applying for NEET. It was pointed out by an official data that for the medical admissions in TN, there has been 17 percent increase in the number of candidates. In the 2017-18 it was 1.2 lakh and now in 2018-19 the number has increase to 1.4 lakh.
In the month of May in 2019, NEET examination would be conducted and the superb piece of information is the centre has increased the number of cities in which the NEET test would be conducted. It is well known that in the last year centre faced criticisms for not alloting enough examination centres in TN. One important point is last year the NEET examination took place in only 10 cities including Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy. Many students belonging to rural and interior places of TN were forced to go to other states for NEET examination. Many students were not able to reach these exam centres in correct time and they were not allowed to write the test.
In TN, places like Cuddalore, Thanjavur, Nagercoil and Karur would have exam centres for NEET this time. More than 26000 students preferred exam centres in and around Chennai and 19000 preferred exam centres in the four newly added cities out of total registrations.
It must not be forgotten that the TN had promised many times that it would pressurise the centre to clear the Bills passed in the state assembly for permanent exemption from NEET. The opposition parties and activists wanted to scrap NEET it totally as it would create issues for many students belonging to the rural places in TN. The fact is little progress has been made in this. The state government has set up as many as 413 coaching centres to train the students belonging to government funded schools. The important point is private colleges funded the training programmes as Rs 20 crores allotted by the government towards training programme remains idle.
According to the school education minister, Mr. Sengottaiyan, a total of 26000 students are being trained in these coaching centres. He was hopeful of atleast 500 students joining MBBS/BDS courses by clearing NEET-UG 2019. The official data pointed out that last year only government school students managed to secure medical admissions.
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