Demand for NEET cancellation escalates in Tamil Nadu

Chennai: After the tragic death of a NEET 2025 aspirant recently, the PMK has demanded that the exams should be cancelled due to rising deaths over exams in the State of Tamil Nadu.

Medical Dialogues had recently reported that the concerned 19-year-old NEET 2025 aspirant from Tindivanam in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district allegedly died by suicide due to fear of underperforming in the upcoming MBBS entrance test.

In her bid to become a doctor, she took the exams last year but could not get an admission despite scoring 350 marks.

She has been preparing to clear it this time, when the fear on her forced her to take the extreme step, the reports said.

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Meanwhile, PMK President and Rajya Sabha MP Dr Anbumani Ramadoss condoled her death and urged the Centre to immediately withdraw the exams which had claimed almost 50 lives in the State.

"I was deeply shocked and saddened to hear the news that a student named Indu from Dadapuram village near Tindivanam in Villupuram district committed suicide by hanging herself at her home due to fear of failing in the NEET exam", he said in a statement, quotes UNI

Expressing his deepest condolences and sympathies to her grieving family, Dr Anbumani, also a former Union Health Minister, said she wrote the NEET exam last year, but could not get into a medical college despite scoring 350 marks. "She was studying hard to get into medical course at least this year and was trying her best to apply for the NEET exam to be held in May, but she allegedly committed suicide fearing that she might not get success this year too", he said.

Pointing out that she had studied in a government school and scored high marks in the 12th class public examination, he said, she, however, could not score the same marks in the NEET examination.

Noting that nearly 50 people have died in Tamil Nadu since the NEET exam was introduced in 2017

The central government should learn from the statistics of the last 8 years that the NEET exam has not helped in any way to improve the quality of medical education or prevent the commercialization of medical education, he stated.

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