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Exempt Tamil Nadu from common dental entrance
exam: Jayalalithaa
Friday September 07, 2012 11:25:25 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Friday protested to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh against the nationwide common entrance exam for
Dental Council of India (DCI) courses and urged that the state be
exempted from the new system.
In a letter to the prime minister, the text of which was released
to the media here, Jayalalithaa said: "I request that Tamil Nadu
may be exempted from the test and allowed to continue with its
existing system for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate
dental seats."
Referring to the gazette notification of DCI regarding
introduction of National Eligibility Entrance Test for both Bacherlor of Dental Science (BDS) and Master of Dental Science
(MDS) course, Jayalalithaa expressed her strong objection to the
introduction of eligibility tests.
She said the Tamil Nadu government has abolished the entrance
exams for professional courses from 2007-08 after detailed
examination by an expert committee which found that such exams put
rural and students from lower socio-economic backgrounds at a
disadvantage.
Such entrance examinations result in the growth of expensive
coaching centres which charge high fees which the poorer students
cannot afford, she added.
"The need for such coaching classes will be specifically felt in
the case of a national level examination as the students who pass
the 12th standard based on our state syllabi will not face a level
playing field as the topics covered for the entrance exam are
likely to be based on the NCERT/CBSE (National Council of
Educational Research and Training/Central Board of Secondaryl
Eduction) curriculum and syllabi," Jayalalithaa added.
Citing the reservation policy of the state government where 69
percent of the seats are reserved for backward/most
backward/scheduled castes and tribes, Jayalalithaa contended that
the common entrance exam wuld create confusion and litigation.
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