Chennai, July 15 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Minister for Medical and
Family Welfare Ma.Subramanian on Thursday met Union
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi and
urged him to exempt Tamil Nadu from NEET exams this year.
Mr Subramanian, who is on an official visit to the National
capital to take various issues concerning the state, including
to seek additional doses of covid vaccines, tweeted : as per
the path shown by Chief Minister M K Stalin, I met Union
Education Minister and urged him to exempt TN from NEET
this year'.
The NEET exam is scheduled to be held on September 12 this
year.
The Retired Judge A K Rajan committee, formed by the Tamil Nadu
Government to study the impact on NEET on students from socially
backward sections and suggest corrective measures, submitted his
report to Mr Stalin yesterday.
He said the committee obtained the opinions from 86,342 persons
on NEET and majority of them expressed their opinion against the
exam.
NEET is the qualifying exam for admission to UG and PG medical
courses in the country.
During his visit, Mr Subramanian put forth 13 demands to Union
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, including establishing an
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Coimbatore.
The Minister said submited a petition with the demands to the
Union Minister.
Mr.Subramanian said he also urged Mr Mandaviya to allocate
additional COVID vaccine doses to the State, apart from
expediting the AIIMS project in Madurai.
“The Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister, seeking
special allocation of one crore vaccine doses to the State. This
was also conveyed to the Union Health Minister. We stressed
the demand for allocation of more vaccine doses, in proportion
to the population,” Mr Subramanian said.
Apart from seeking permission for admitting students in 11 new
medical college after due inspections by the Centre, he said
he also urged the Union Minister to permit immediate opening
of the Integrated Vaccine Complex set up by HLL Biotech in
Chengalpattu and Pasteur Institute in Coonoor for vaccine
production.
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