NEET 2021: Tamil Nadu Govt gets notice over its decision to form committee to study NEET based admission process

The matter has now been listed for hearing on July 5, 2021. Madras HC noted the plea in regards Supreme Court’s August 2017 order over the validity of NEET.

The matter has now been listed for hearing on July 5, 2021. Madras HC noted the plea in regards Supreme Court’s August 2017 order over the validity of NEET. The court has also noted that the State has little room to set up a committee to ‘ascertain if NEET-based admission process has prejudicially affected socially backward students.’

Karu Nagarajan moved the Madra High Court seeking the court’s intervention to stay the process of seeking public opinion on NEET.  Petitioner has called the setting up of AK Ranjan committee illegal, pointing out that most of the members appointed in the committee are already opposed to the examination.

In response to the plea, Advocate General R Shunmugasundaram (appearing for the state) has submitted that it was a policy decision taken by the government. Furthermore, the policy decision was backed by manifesto and the people's demand. The matter would be heard on July 5 and the Union of India has been given the liberty to indicate its stand.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has constituted a special committee headed for former Chief Justice A.K Ranjan. The committee would seek public response and opinion in regards the medical entrance examination and its impact on the medical and dental admissions in the state. The committee also lists the study of NEET’s impact on the socially backward classes in the state as its primary aim.

Following the setting up of the committee, the debate on NEET and its validity has erupted in the state of Tamil Nadu. Apart from political parties, south superstar Suriya has also come out in support of banning/ cancelling NEET. Those opposing it have pointed out that Supreme Court in August 2017 had made NEET as the one compulsory examination for medical and dental admissions in the country.

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