Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts resolution requesting centre to withdraw CUET

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has last month announced that the admission for various Undergraduate courses in all the Central Universities across the country will be done on the basis of the CUET 2020 score from the academic year 2022-23.

Tamil Nadu Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Central government to withdraw the proposal of conducting the Common University Entrance Test (CUET). Chief Minister M K Stalin moved the resolution, which was supported by all political parties except the BJP members. 

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has last month announced that the admission for various Undergraduate courses in all the Central Universities across the country will be done on the basis of the CUET 2020 score from the academic year 2022-23.

TN Assembly passes resolution: Details

“There is no doubt that this CUET, like NEET, will sideline the diverse school education systems across the country, grossly undermine the relevance of overall development-oriented long-form learning in schools and make students rely upon coaching centres for improving their entrance examinations scores,” the resolution stated.

The Assembly resolution said the people of Tamil Nadu feels that the CUET will only benefit coaching centres and enforcing such an entrance examination along with regular schooling would lead to mental stress among the student community. The entrance examination on the basis of NCERT syllabus will not provide equal opportunity to all the students, especially those who have studied in varied State Board syllabi across the country. In most of the states, the State Board syllabus constituted more than 80 per cent of the total student population and these students invariably hailed from the marginalised sections.

“Hence an NCERT syllabus-based entrance examination would place this deserving majority in a disadvantageous position in securing admission in Central universities,” it said.

In Tamil Nadu’s context, this was likely to drastically reduce the number of students from the State in various Central universities and their affiliated colleges, according to the resolution.

“As this resolution reflects the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu, on behalf of the 8.5 crore people of Tamil Nadu, I request the Union government to withdraw the CUET,” the Chief Minister stated.

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