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On paper, the idea of a common #NEET sounds perfect as it does away with multiple entrance exams. What it does not account for is the heterogeneous nature of our education system, with its socio-economic and linguistic differences. It looks at India, or more specifically Bharat
through the prism of Lutyens Delhi, and assumes every student - be in Dibrugarh or Ramanathapuram has access to a coaching centre to prepare them for NEET. It is this myopia of the policy makers that killed this young girl today and not her parent’s ambition to make her a doctor.
It also does not take into account that underprivileged families who depend on a no fee or low fee government school or a scholarship in a private school, cannot afford to spend over one lakh rupees for NEET coaching in a year.
Add to that, several district towns, leave alone villages, do not have a NEET coaching centre. It is like throwing children into the swimming pool without providing them with basic training and safety equipment.
What NEET does is to create a parallel system of schooling for medical aspirants NEET coaching centres, all of them private players. This practically kills the schooling system obviously if Plus 2 marks are not going to count, why would a student burn the midnight oil on school?
