Academics call for doing away with NEET
The Hindu
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Former chairman of the University Grants Commission Sukhadeo Thorat on Sunday called for dispensing with the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and said the National Education Policy-2020 went against inclusiveness as it envisaged a similar entrance test for all courses.
He was virtually inaugurating a day-long hunger strike organised by the State Platform for Common School System-Tamil Nadu in Chennai against NEET. Mr. Thorat said the National Education Policy did not detail measures to provide opportunities to the socio-economically backward population. “The measures it has suggested for improving the quality of education will end up denying opportunities to the disadvantaged sections.”
Anil Sadgopal, a former member of the Central Advisory Board of Education, lauded Tamil Nadu for being at the forefront of a struggle against NEET. He said NEET must be seen in the context of the National Education Policy that encouraged commercialisation of education and denial of opportunities to the disadvantaged.
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