Chandigarh, March 4, 2022: Opposing the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) mandatory for MBBS education, the Mahila Kisan Union has termed the central admission process as a ‘death knell’ for the dreams of poor and promising rural students as such children want to achieve medical degrees but due to poverty, adverse living conditions and facilities they were deprived of medical seats in the country and they either lose their dreams or are forced to get cheap medical education from abroad.
In a statement issued here on Friday, State President of Mahila Kisan Union, Bibi Rajwinder Kaur Raju, appealed to all the regional parties to abolish this pro-rich central entrance exam NEET on the lines of Tamil Nadu state and adopt the old practice to admit students in MBBS course based on class XII marks only in the medical colleges of their states.
The woman leader slammed the BJP government at the Center for failing to ensure the safety of Indian medical students entangled in the Russo-Ukraine war, saying that two Indian students were killed and more than 30,000 students have suffered physical and mental torture in Ukraine.
Lamenting at the situation, Bibi Rajwinder Kaur Raju said the incidents in Ukraine have exposed the ‘shameless face’ of the NEET exam and the death of these students is a big question for the conscience of India.
Terming this national NEET exam as a violation of the federal structure, farmer leader Bibi Raju asked why the central government was denying opportunities to rural and poor children to become doctors while the state governments were providing basic facilities and all kinds of infrastructure to their medical colleges.
The woman leader said due to the introduction of the NEET exam in the country, expensive tuition and coaching centers have mushroomed in every city where only children from affluent homes are taking costly tuition/coaching classes and 99% of them are clear in NEET examination.
He added that it is extremely difficult for the poor, rural, and students of government schools to clear this central examination. So reserving medical education only for the rich is discriminatory and dangerous for the country”, she deplored.
