TIRUPUR: After three attempts to crack the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and missing an MBBS seat in a government medical college by just six marks in the third attempt, when he scored 505 marks, a 20-year-old medical aspirant from Udumalpet is likely to end up a daily wage labourer soon.
V Ashok Mithun told TOI that he was desperate to secure a medical seat and the sudden loss of his 55-year-old father, who always backed him to pursue his dream and bought him study materials, to Covid-19 in the first week of February this year had left him with no other option but to take up his father's profession of painting to make a living.
