DMK to protest against new education policy

Chennai: Strongly opposing common entrance examinations at the national level for professional courses, DMK working president M.K. Stalin on Monday announced a protest on January 20 against Neet and the new education policy.

He flayed the national education policy saying that it is an effort to impose Sanskrit, besides bringing communal agenda into education. He described the new education policy as an attempt to end the samacheer kalvi system brought by the state and introduce education based on religion. The protests would be held throughout the state before central government offices, he said.

TNCC president S. Thirunavukkarasar too opposed common entrance examination for admissions to engineering colleges. He said only 35 students who had studied in government schools are admitted to medical colleges through entrance examinations at the national level and added that only nine students who studied the state syllabus had obtained IIT admission. There are no qualified teachers and infrastructure in government schools and the students who studied in them are unable to succeed in competitive examinations.

The state government should improve the state syllabus to the CBSE level and enable the state government school students to compete in entrance examinations. As it would take five more years to do so, the state government should bring an ordinance to avoid Neet in Tamil Nadu.

PMK youth wing leader Anbumani Ramadoss said there should not be national level entrance examinations for admissions to medical and engineering colleges run by the state government. A common examination for all should be contemplated only when the rich and poor people get the same kind of education, he said. Till that date, the existing system of admission should continue, he insisted.