The DMK government in Tamil Nadu had constituted a committee headed by former Justice AK Rajan to study the impact of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
The committee which submitted its report to Chief Minister MK Stalin on September 14 makes a case for doing away with NEET claiming that it puts rural government school tamil medium students at a disadvantage.
However, many have pointed out that the report is not at all objective and has been prepared to buttress the ruling DMK government’s politics over NEET.
Dr. Sumanth C Raman had posted on his social media that the report makes selective usage of data and makes several conclusions without evidence.
He pointed out that the data on students from government schools who got MBBS seats pre and post NEET is selectively put out. While every data is from 2010-2020, the data for this particular header alone is from 2014.
“Why is the trend between 2017-18 and 2020-21 not given any importance at all? Many of the parameters seem to be heading towards pre NEET days but the committee does not even mention this. eg.FC as % of OC from 23% to 11%, 15. More students from TN have been clearing NEET with each passing year. This does not even get a mention. Why no data on this?”, he pointed out.
He also asked how did the committee decide that 99% of students who qualified through NEET took coaching.
The report makes several blanket and unsubstantiated claims that doctors will not be available at all in future in Tamil Nadu if NEET was to stay.
Thread on Justice A.K.Rajan Committee report.
Issues
1.Selective usage of Data.
2. Makes several unverifiable assumptions
3.Non exclusion of outlier data
4.Drawing inferences/conclusions without evidence— Sumanth Raman (@sumanthraman) September 21, 2021
BJP Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai said that the report fails to disclose crucial data for the years 2010-2014 on the number of government school children who secured admissions to government medical colleges.
Shri. A K Rajan Committee report on NEET exam constituted by @arivalayam govt & made public yday fails to disclose crucial data for the years 2010-2014.
This data pertains to the children studying in Govt Schools & getting admitted to Govt medical Institutions!
Any reasons? pic.twitter.com/WSgOWRl38H
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) September 21, 2021
BJP Tamil Nadu Spokesperson SG Suryah pointed out that the former Judge AK Rajan has his bookshelf decorated with pictures of Karunanidhi and MK Stalin. “It would be foolish to expect that a report prepared by committee headed by such a person would be devoid of political bias”, he said.
He added that the committee seems to have given a report that was dictated by the DMK government and called for a complete boycott of the biased report.
தி.மு.க அரசு கேட்டுக்கொண்டதை அப்படியே அறிக்கையாக கொடுத்து இருக்கிறார்கள். நடுநிலை முற்றிலும் தவறிய, ஒரு தலைபட்சமான 165 பக்க அறிக்கை முழுமையாக நிராகரிக்கப்பட வேண்டும். (2/2)
— SG Suryah (@SuryahSG) September 21, 2021
Indu Makkal Katchi took a jibe saying that the AK Rajan committee report is a fiction like a Tamil movie script.
The fiction of AK Rajan report on NEET, is like a Tamil movie script, you have to read it to believe it…. Incredibly political, and nothing academic.
— Indu Makkal Katchi (Offl) 🇮🇳 (@Indumakalktchi) September 21, 2021
Sriram Seshadri, a TV debater and political commentator said that the committee fixed the outcome and worked backwards which explains the several contradictions and wilful missing data.
Justice AK Rajan Committee report fixed the outcome and worked backwards on its findings, hence several contradictions found or willful missing data in the report. Will come out with detailed analysis of these anomalies shortly.#AKRajanReport #NEETforTN
— Sriram Seshadri 🇮🇳 (@Isriramseshadri) September 21, 2021
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