Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections | NEET rankles, but NEP causes bigger worries
The Hindu
Unfilled vacancies, job security and pay parity are the other issues faced by teachers.
In the last four years, the Tamil Nadu government has insisted that it is against the National Eligibility-cum-Entran- ce Test (NEET) for admission to medical courses. But the Central government has had its way and made NEET mandatory. Last year, NEET was essential for admission to colleges of the Indian systems of medicine, too. Recently, the National Testing Agency announced that NEET would be required for admission to B.Sc. Nursing. While activists have been up in arms against the imposition of NEET, parties have remained silent this time.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.