Volunteers protest against NEET, arrested

The volunteers picketed the office of the Director, Health Service demanding that  the territorial administration should expedite  the process of publishing an  ordinance exempting Puducherry from NEET after obtaining the nod of  the president of India. 

The volunteers who floated the “NEET opposition committee” pointed out that a bill in respect of  selection of students for UG medicine and Dental courses  through the Centralized Admission Committee(Centac) of the government was passed in the territorial assembly and  forwarded to the Lt.Governor. The Lt.Governor  should send this with due recommendations to the  union home ministry to get it’s approval and  then publish an ordinance  after getting the clearance of the  union health and family welfare ministry and Law ministry,besides the nod of the president.

 This process should be expedited,they said.  To press the demands,they picketed the  Health Director’s office today .Grand Bazaar police intervened and asked them to disperse. however, they demanded that health minister Malladi Krishna Rao should come and hold talks with them and they would continue the agitation till then.When police tried to re move them ,they all ran away and assembled in  front  of the Rajnivas .They also picketed the car of the Director ,health and family welfare services.