40% of medical seats in TN government colleges bagged by students who took break for preparing NEET
Posted on: 03/Aug/2018 9:31:11 AM
NEET is an important examination for the students aspiring for medical seats is known. The latest news is nearly half the candidates who got seat in government medical colleges in TN have taken a break for one year to prepare for NEET or National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test.
According to an official data, out of 2500 students who cleared NEET and got admission to medical colleges, as many as 1269 students cleared had passed their board examination before the year 2017. The rest 1263 students are from the current batch 2017-18. After the class 12 board examinations more students now take break. This is more when compared to the previous year.
As per the experts it is clear that 40 percent of the students belonged to previous batch. Many of these students had joined private coaching centres to prepare themselves for NEET and have paid huge amount as fees. This would increase more in the future also and this was confirmed by educationist, Mr. Prince Babu.
Later he spoke about how the parents would encourage their kids to skip counselling in that particular year and prepare better for the next year to get a seat in a government medical college in the next year. The reasons why parents would do this is they are unable to pay the fees demanded by the private medical colleges and they are not sure of the quality of teaching in the private medical colleges.
It is known that medical seat in government colleges is cheap when compared to private medical college. So the parents do not want to spend huge amounts of Rs 30 lakh to Rs 35 lakh for the MBBS seat in the private medical colleges. The parents prefer spending Rs 2 lakh to Rs 3 lakh at coaching centres for two years so that government seat could be got. Mr. Prince Babu threw light on the fact that meritorious students belonging to economically weaker sections of the society would be eliminated.
General Secretary, Doctor’s Association for Social Equality, Mr. G.R. Ravindranath, shared his thoughts. He said this trend could not be avoided with the government relaxing the rules regarding the upper age limit to take up NEET. He hinted that this trend might change in the future due rate of corporatisation and privatisation of the health care system in India. Change in this trend might also be due to weakening of public healthcare by reducing allocation of funds. The demand for doctors would be brought down as many small and medium sized medical clinics would be shut down due to these policies. He later explained that many students would not opt for medicine course also because of its duration of seven and half years of study including post graduation plus due to high education cost and fewer job opportunities etc.
