Imposing NEET on Tamil Nadu could damage state's model education system

Applicants from CBSE had a better chance of clearing NEET than those from the state board

“With medicine we come to one of the most tragic features of the colonial situation.”

Frantz Fanon

The problems with NEET have been well addressed by many critics. A year ago, the Bengali academic and activist Garga Chatterjee wrote about how NEET would strengthen the centre and the elites who make up the centre, at the expense of the state via the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum. Ezhilan Naganathan, a medical practitioner, rationalist and Tamil activist, recently exposed how dual nativity was being used fraudulently against the interests of Tamil students (read as OBCs, MBCs and SC/STs) in Tamil