Letters: Promoting mediocrity

NEET was introduced to streamline the process of admission into MBBS and BDS courses

With reference to “Neet 2017: Centre to consider 1-year exemption for TN, says Sitharaman” (August 14), the Tamil Nadu government opting for the ordinance route to get exemption for its students from the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for the current year is a retrograde step. It was in the 1970s when the rot began to set in in the state’s professional education sector, with seats in government medical and engineering colleges being sold in the open market, at the cost of merit. It even prompted the Supreme Court to express dismay “at the spectacle of students who scored very