Tamil Nadu assembly passes Bill for medical admissions without NEET
14 September
The Tamil Nadu assembly on Monday passed a Bill for admissions to undergraduate courses in medicine, dentistry, Indian medicine and homeopathy on the basis of marks obtained by students in Class 12 board examinations. The Bill also provides for 7.5% horizontal reservation for the students of government schools in medical admission. Admissions to medical education courses are traceable to entry 25 of List III, Schedule VII of the Constitution. Therefore, the state government is competent to regulate the same. So, I am moving this Bill, chief minister M K Stalin said, evoking a loud thumping of desks in the treasury. Stalin introduced the bill in the Assembly.