-G.Nataraja Perumal
The Nation feels very proud of the remarkable performance by the students of TN state in the NEET.
The state’s overall pass percentage at the National level has increased by 8 per cent -a quantum jump when compared to previous years, and its overall pass percentage is 1 per cent above the national average.
Government and aided school students have performed exceedingly well, and a rural school student is in the 8th place in the overall National toppers list. The state has underestimated the calibre of our students.
A few students have made it to the top without any coaching in private institutions. – An achievement in itself.
Middle class and BPL students also figure quite prominently due to their sheer hard work.
The new syllabus introduced by the state Govt. has played a very positive, pivotal and crucial role in helping the students achieve better scores and there is no wonder students and teachers from rest of Nation is interested in the state’s new syllabus.
The NEET phobia created by some vested interests have fallen by the wayside, Now our students have accepted NEET as a reality as something which has come to stay.
NEET has many advantages. One could appear there times. For instance, a student who scored 195 last time has scored 565 this time, previous years students have to sit separately for AIIMS
JIPMER APMS etc. This year it is a standard test, and hence students adorning those prestigious seats also loom large. How many benefits at one go! Why should our students commit suicide? Medicine is not the be-all and end-all. We have no right to destroy which we can’t create.
Life is more sacred and sublime. Let me narrate an interesting incident that happened in the life of late PM Morarji Desai. Then Desai was an ICS topper. One reporter asked Desai what would you do in case you don’t get ICS. Pat came to the reply. The world is vast and complete, and I would do something else to eke out a livingInterestingly Desai resigned his prestigious ICS administrative post in the wake of freedom struggle.
And lastly, it has become a fashion for our netas in TN to blame a particular community for anything that goes wrong in society. How many MPs and MLAs are there from the branded community from TN.? How many of them are in the state service?
At a time when OBCs and SCs have entered into the General category is there any meaning to single out a microscopic minority community for their political vendetta. A few extraordinarily brilliant students from this so-called forward community could make it to the G-Category-their only destination. During the British regime, administrative machinery was very much in the hands of the forward communities, and yet they fought for the ouster of an alien rule.
Our TN associations should come out of their political cocoon and view things in their proper perspective. Let them support any political party for their benefits. The associations should pressurize the Government to allocate more funds for more special coaching centres.
It is the duty of teachers to create a positive pro NEET atmosphere in the schools. School assemblies could be put to fair use in this regard. No society could raise above the level of its teachers, and there is an unknown teacher behind every action.
