AYUSH Ministry again seeks clarification on NEET from TN govt

Chennai: The Union Government has once again sought some clarifications on the Bill seeking to exempt the State from the purivew of the NEET which was twice passed in the Tamil nadu Assembly unanimously and that the reply will sent in 2 weeks.

Exempting the State from NEET in the interest of rural students was one of the major poll promises of the ruling DMK and it had been making all efforts to avchieve it, amid charges from the opposition parties it had failed to implement it.

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Health Minister Ma.Subramanian told reporters today that the Ministry of AYUSH has once again sought clarifications from the State government on the anti-NEET Bill.

The response will be sent within two weeks, he said. Earlier, the departments of AYUSH, Higher Education, and Health and Family Welfare, had sought a number of clarifications on the Bill through the Ministry of Home Affairs, he said. “We had consulted with legal experts and sent an appropriate response to these three departments", he added. "On January 13, the Ministry of AYUSH sent a letter seeking some clarifications again. We will consult legal experts and send our response in a week or two,” he added.

Stating that the clarifications sought were on the replies earlier submitted by the State Health Department, the Minister denied the charges made by the Leader of the Opposition and AIADMK interim General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s on the State's pioneering initiative Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam launched by the Chief Minister.

The Minister said if he (EPS) was ready to visit the Directorate of Public Health (DPH) and Preventive Medicine, they were ready to share the list of one crore beneficiaries under the scheme. Subramanian said the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation had spent an additional budget of Rs 85 crore for buying drugs and equipment such as dialysis bags under the scheme in the last one year.