Tamil Nadu Education Minister KA Sengottaiyan on Sunday said the Government’s policy is to get exemption from National Eligibility-cum-Entrance
Test (NEET) and it had been urging the Centre continuously in this regard.
“The State Government’s policy is to get exemption from NEET. Continuous efforts are being made in this regard,” he said.
“We have already made an appeal to the Union Government to exempt Tamil Nadu students from the NEET examinations,” the Minister added.
He said till the exemption is obtained, the State Government has made arrangements to provide free training to students to face the exams, which is compulsory to qualify for admission to MBBS/BDS courses.
It was decided to start 412 centres to train around 78,000 students to face NEET, he added. Sengottaiyan added from these 78,000 the best 2,000 students will be selected and provided 'special' coaching for NEET.