A memorandum was submitted to Modi by the delegation seeking Presidential nod for two Bills passed recently by the state assembly and now pending with the Centre.
The bills pave the way for continuation of UG medical admissions on the basis of Plus Two marks exempting Tamil Nadu from the ambit of the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET).
Senior AIADMK (Amma) leader and Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai led the ministers.
The delegation also called on Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on the NEET issue, the release said.
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Both the ruling AIADMK (Amma) and main opposition DMK are opposed to NEET in Tamil Nadu maintaining that it would affect the interests of State students both from villages and the urban poor.
DMK and other opposition parties have been targeting the AIADMK (Amma) regime on NEET claiming that the interests of students were compromised by not getting exemption from it.
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