Chief Minister Stalin opposes NEET for allied and health care courses

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) said admittance modalities for Allied and Health Care Courses (AHCs) autumn wrong the jurisdiction of the State authorities and that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) should beryllium kept retired of these admissions.

In a missive to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, helium said the National Commission for Allied and Health Care Professions (NCAHP) making NEET mandatory for admittance to 2 undergraduate grade courses — Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT) and Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (BOT) — had made a “hasty and advertisement hoc decision” with “multiple deleterious consequences”.

Pointing retired that Tamil Nadu had consistently opposed NEET for MBBS admissions and had repeatedly cautioned against the information of its hold to different courses, Mr. Stalin said the State’s worst apprehensions had present travel true. “It is evident from caller communications from the Union Health Ministry that NEET is being prescribed for these 2 courses arsenic the archetypal measurement successful a larger program to marque it mandatory for each Allied and Health Care Courses successful the future. This attempt, being made without owed consultation with State Governments — who are constitutionally liable for some the wellness and acquisition sectors — is wholly unacceptable to us,” helium said.

Mr. Stalin said that the instauration of NEET for MBBS admissions had forced 1.4 lakh students to trust connected costly coaching classes and beryllium for the introspection to vie for conscionable 12,000 seats. “This has created unnecessary costs, accent and anxiousness for families, and has rendered show successful schoolhouse examinations redundant. Extending this flawed exemplary to a wider scope of AHCs volition lone aggravate the situation,” helium said. He noted that Tamil Nadu had implicit 50,000 seats successful Allied and Health Care Courses, and lakhs of aspirants for these programmes came from acold poorer socio-economic backgrounds than MBBS candidates. “Hence, forcing these families to walk wealth connected NEET coaching would magnitude to a gross injustice,” helium said.

Mr. Stalin said the mandate needed to beryllium reviewed and the National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions (NCAHP) instructed to retreat the determination immediately. “Given the urgency of the issue, I look guardant to your idiosyncratic intervention,” helium added.