Student who fought NEET exam in SC commits suicide in TN

Team Udayavani, Sep 2, 2017, 10:23 AM IST

Chennai: A teenage girl was found hanging near her home in the State of Tamil Nadu.

The victim has been identified as S Anitha, a 17 -year-old Dalit student from Tamil Nadu who had requested the Supreme Court not to insist on a common entrance exam for medical colleges.

It has been suspected that as Anitha wasn’t able to get admission in a Medical College she would have taken this extreme step.

S Anitha, the daughter of a daily wager, scored 1,176 marks out of 1,200 in her board exams in Tamil Nadu, which would have allowed her to enrol to study to become a doctor, but did not perform well in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, commonly referred to as “NEET.”

A year ago, the Supreme Court ordered all medical colleges across the country to use NEET to decide admissions. Tamil Nadu, which has close to 40 medical colleges, said its students are at a disadvantage while taking NEET, which it alleged is more apt for students who study in CBSE schools, and punishes poor and rural students who cannot afford the private tuition classes usually needed to score high on common entrance exams like NEET and JEE, which is used for engineering students.

The top court exempted the state from NEET last year, but refused a request to continue the exemption this year.

Superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, tweeted about Anitha.