Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately withdraw the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admissions to all Central universities.
Mr. Stalin argued the introduction of CUET, similar to the NEET, was “a definitive prelude to the larger attempt of the Union government to centralise higher education admissions”.
According to him, the CUET was a regressive step that will sideline the diverse school education systems across the country, grossly undermine the relevance of overall development oriented long-form learning in schools and make students rely upon coaching centres for improving their entrance examination scores.
