DMK to sponsor govt school students who got into private medical colleges

CHENNAI: DMK president MK Stalin on Saturday announced that his party would bear the educational expenditure of government school students who have cleared NEET and got medical course admission in private colleges this year under the 7.5% reservation.

The DMK chief, in a statement, said: "As per the 7.5% reservation, 227 government school students who cleared NEET have got admission in government schools and the rest of the students have got admission in private medical colleges.  

Since the students from poor economic backgrounds are unable to pay the fees in private colleges, the DMK will bear their entire educational expenditure."

Expressing confidence that the DMK would come to power after the 2021 Assembly elections, Stalin said, "At that time, the DMK would take legal steps to scrap the NEET so that the medical education dreams of the students studying in government and government-aided schools and those hailing from the poor economic background, backward classes and oppressed communities can be realised.