While The Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Medical Degree Courses Act, 2021 (NEET exemption Bill) is pending Presidential assent, a Tamil Nadu MP’s letter on the subject, forwarded by Rashtrapati Bhavan to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), is missing from the records.
Last December, the State Platform for Common School System – Tamil Nadu (SPCSS-TN) had submitted a representation to President Droupadi Murmu drawing her attention to the fact that the NEET Bill, which was reserved for her assent, was pending for many months with the MHA. Subsequently, in January, Madurai MP S. Venkatesan, of the CPI(M), enclosed this memorandum in a letter to the President urging her to call for the Bill from the MHA and grant assent to it without further delay.
In May, SPCSS-TN general secretary Prince Gajendra Babu filed an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, addressed to the President’s Secretariat, seeking the status of his representation to Ms. Murmu on the NEET Bill as well as that of the MP’s letter. The President’s Secretariat informed him that his representation was forwarded to the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary and the MP’s letter was sent to the MHA.
