Government needs to give up all-India examination: Chidambaram on row over NEET-UG
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram stressed on Sunday that the central government needs to give up all-India examinations, adding that the right to conduct examinations for medical college admissions must be reverted back to states.
The NEET-UG exam, held on May 5, 2024, has been mired in controversy, with allegations of cheating and impersonation.
In an exclusive interview with ANI, P Chidambaram said, «NEET is a scandal and we have been saying this for the last 3-4 years. Tamil Nadu has passed a resolution in the assembly demanding the exemption of the state from NEET. Each state must have the right to conduct its own entrance examination to select students for the colleges run by the state government. When you have an all-India-level examination, these scandals are bound to happen.»
Emphasising that this is too large a country with too many candidates writing the examination, he said that the government needs to give up this all-India examination and keep it limited to only central government institutions.
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«This is too large a country, with too many candidates writing the examination, too many people are interested in exploiting the system… The government needs to give up this all-India examination and keep it limited to only central government institutions and not include states...» he said.
Chidambaram also sought Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation and stated that the latter should
