DMK MP Tiruchi Siva has given a Zero Hour notice in the Rajya Sabha over the ‘adverse impact of holding NEET exam, leading to suicides by students’ on Tuesday. Yesterday, DMK and CPI(M) also gave adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha over ‘suicide of 12 teenage students due to NEET’.
He had demanded a ban on the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test examination (NEET) yesterday after saying that the entrance examnination deprives the poor and rural students of their future dreams as they are unable to qualify for the exam as they can’t afford expensive private coaching.
“In Tamil Nadu, 11 students have committed suicides due to the scare of this examination. So, DMK insists that the NEET examination should be scrapped so as the new national education policy that has been approved by the cabinet and the government is very keen on implementing. It would retread the country instead of progressive attempt,” he had said. DMK MPs including TR Balu, Tiruchi Siva and Kanimozhi staged a protest against the NEET and demanded that the exam be scrapped.
They arrived at Parliament wearing masks with ‘Ban NEET, save TN students’ printed on them and staged a protest in the Parliament premises.
