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  1. jayasala42

    jayasala42 IL Hall of Fame

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    The death of the young Anitha, a medical aspirant,an irretrievable loss ,not only to the family, but to the student community.Hers is no death-it is a struggle for student rights.The blame game has already started.It is the responsibility of every individual in the society to ensure that no such Anitha's case gets repeated.

    Before analysing Anitha's death, we have to know answers for the following questions;
    1..Do you know the scores of Anitha in NEET.She has got 1176/1200 in Plus two exams. She got less than 100 in NEET.
    2.The political parties making a hue and cry over Anitha's death today, didn't open their mouths or didn't raise a single word of objection when PSG,Meenakshi and SRM medical colleges collected crores of Rupees as capitation fees.

    3.So called moral lovers, the media-was totally silent all these years seeing Tamasha.
    4.Even assuming that the students' fight against is logical and reasonable, why should the medical colleges take this issue legally and tap the doors of the Highest court of India?
    5. Is there any anti communal feeling? Is any particular community is greatly affected by NEET?
    6.What is the situation in other states? Why is there not a single struggle in other states? What is the speciality of Tamilnadu?
    7.What is the real political motive behind this struggle?
    8.What are the duties and responsibilities of the Education Dept of the State and Central? Is it not a black mark against the education system of Tamilnadu that students of this state hesitate to challenge or compete?

    9.When NEET was legally made compulsory by the Supreme court, why no body questioned or rather could not question the Supreme Court?Doesn't it mean that these political goons are fully aware of the justice behind NEET?
    Why the most brilliant student Anitha who secured 1176/1200 could get only 86/720.
    55% of the NEET questions were from X1 std and 45% were from X11 std. This was intimated well in advance, a year back to all the students.
    Anitha didn't study in a govt school.She has studied in a private school, paying nearly 1.5 lakhs for both the years.It is evident that the private schools have taught only X11 std portions for both the years repeatedly to ensure that all their wards get above 1100 in public exam.Little concentration was given to X1 std lessons.Even students who have studied in Govt schools could secure about 250 in NEET.

    Vijayakant, Pachamuthu and Ramadoss own their own medical colleges.Many of the other party luminaries do have their own medical colleges.It is their logical concern how their treasury will get filled in, if all merit based NEET Students join medical course with lesser fees? How can their coffers get filled in?A natural anxiety!
    The capitation inPSG, Meenakshi and Ramachandra work out to nearly 70lakhs each.Nobody took the subject for discussion all these days.Suddenly ,it is as though, they have woken up to their conscience after the young Anitha lost her life.

    People who act as though they struggle for societal causes, should realise the facts.
    No Of SC students who were selected for medicine last year was 94 and this year it is 135.
    No Of OC students last year was 168 and this year it is515.The Dravidian parties want to spread a wrong impression as though most of the seats were allotted to non BC and non MBC categories that is to the so called higher castes.In reality out of 505 seats the distribution is as under:-
    S.C-- 36,
    M.B.C.- 179
    b.c----- 201
    Brahmins,
    pillai and other
    forward communities 99

    Where is social injustice?
    Tamil nadu politics is essentially responsible for today's happenings. They talked about 'Dravidam' and opposed Hindi.Now they have taken NEET in their hands essentially out of party politics.All against the people out of mere selfish interest.All the regional parties have allotment of quota in medical colleges.After paying so much capitation, how can a medical student be expected to serve the society? His primary motive would definitely earn more than what he had spent in a few years.

    It is the primary duty of the Government to have tie up arrangements with private NEET coaching centres and arrange for free coaching to all students ambitious of joining medical colleges and supply free study materials and model question papers ,if they are really interested in developing standards instead of simply being too generous in scores-which will be of be of no avail, in the real interest of the children.

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    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    @jayasala42
    A very balanced and well articulated analysis of the unfortunate case of Anitha. Anything is a cause for the politicians to fight for. Instead of coming with constructive suggestions to tackle the issue, they indulge in mud slinging which is all that they can do. It is unfortunate that they escalate everything to a kind of 'life and death' issue.
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    Thank you Cheeniya Sir.The gory death of a young girl has become a hot juicy topic for discussion and it has been taken full advantage of by the cut throat politicians.Just to gain mileage they have prevented the parents from accepting the compensation.Sooner the money will be in the pocket of some party workers or chiefs.Very sorry state of Affairs.At this stage no parent wants their sons nd daughters to come back and settle in India, especially in Tamilnadu.

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    You have analysed it very well.
    The whole galata is only politically motivated . If they only wanted a solution, it could have been easily arranged . But everyone has to extract the maximum mileage out of every tragic incident .
    Worst thing is they incite students to go on strikes , cutting classes and man hours . Those children are going to suffer in their exams too because of this .
     
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    Notwithstanding the fact that politicians are behaving like vultures swooping over a corpse in Anita's case., Neet itself is fundamentally flawed. What they have done is piut the cart before the horse. Before NEET was imposed the centre must have ensured a uniform science (particularly life sciences) syllabus for CBSE. and state boards. NEET can be fair only when this is done. NEET questions are based on CBSE syllabus and kids doing state boards could get disadvantaged because of that. NOT ONLY in TN but it must be put on backburner all over the country until we have a uniform syllabus. The states may howl interference of centre into their territory but this can be avoided by setting up a science education council like GST council with equal participation of state and centre to decide the syllabus.
     
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    it is a brilliant analysis with focus on Tamilnadu pupils and questions raised to questionable(s) with statistics of admission and injustice perpetrated - heart wrenching conclusion. Hats off to you. before NEET, Mother India produced world acclaimed doctors and foreign patients INCLUDING FROM Pakistan are visiting IN HERDS Indian HOSPITALS FOR TRETATMENT, it is clear there is an urgent need to make money for which new vistas are required perhaps. Hence the need for NEET which might claim more ANITHAS. if it is good or bad for future doctors then why not similar exams for engineers a la chartered accountants on all India basis.
     
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    Tamil Nadu politics is undeniably a cesspool.

    If you have sources for the information quoted above, I would be grateful to have them.
    How does one find out who 'owns' which institution?
    Which agency tracks the admissions statistics subsetted based on caste?

    I have been away from TN for along time now. I am still unclear on the legality of the so-called 'capitation fee'. Is it legal for private colleges? Or is it an underhanded, illegal practice? I think it's illegal, but I remember reading an article in which the management of some private medical school defended capitation fees as necessary to defray actual costs of a modern, high-tech medical education, in institutions not subsidized by the government, while officials claimed that they were powerless to investigate. That seemed to suggest that it is a well-known, accepted and maybe quasi-legal practice, hidden in some poorly formulated interstices of the law. If anyone living in TN knows more about this, please share - I am especially interested in credible journalism or books on the subject if any.

    Here are some articles** from the British Medical Journal that I have in my PDF collection.
    India's Private Medical Colleges and Capitation Fees - Jeetha D'Silva (2015) [http://BMJ 2015;350:h106 1756-1833 10.1136/bmj.h106]
    (See summary of article: link here)
    We Need to Discuss India's Reliance on Private Medical Colleges - Sanjay Nagral (2015) [BMJ 2015;350:h237]

    **A subscription or institutional access is required for the articles - hence the summary.
     
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    Hi ,

    Could you please share the source of your data. It will help the readers to see the validity if figures and making sure this is not fake news which prevalent now a days.

    Secondly if states have invested in developing medical colleges they should have a sat in how sears are filed. Center should open colleges and then enforce neet for them.

    For states with very few medical colleges and states where CBse is prevalent , it is advantageous to them , hence you see protest only from states there are more medical
    Colleges.

    Private colleges are in the business if education , so they will have thier management quota and will charge hefty fees, no point in assigning moral questions at them .

    Coaching center to train state
    Board students , this is also for profit business and is Unneccesary burden on state board students .

    Anita may have been more affected because has fought it all the way , she was the one who went to Supreme Court , hence I believe she was more dejected .
     
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    Thank you Susila.

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    It is true ,before NEET, there were many doctors who just appeared for interview and got selected.Now this is a competitive world.Medical education is a money making business.Even for post graduation they pay nearly 25 to 30 L as the seats are limited.
    Actually many students who have scored only around 1000 marks in plus two have done better in NEET.Anita's case is a tragedy.A girl who went upto Supreme Court is not likely to be a coward to commit suicide.It is only an instigated suicide, it seems. any how a precious life is lost.

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