NEET has commercialised education: Congress MP

Seeking a afloat reappraisal of the aesculapian entranceway exam National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), Congress MP Manickam Tagore connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) said it has not encouraged merit but alternatively commercialised acquisition by strengthening private-run “educational empires” and weakening schools.

The Virudhunagar MP from Tamil Nadu said during Zero Hour successful the Lok Sabha that a committee acceptable up by the Centre has recovered lapses successful the coaching strategy successful the country.

Mr. Tagore said the existent signifier was “flawed” arsenic it focused connected lone “single stakes exams” that benefited lone the rich, the coaching mafia and dummy schools.

“Government schoolhouse children, agrarian students, archetypal procreation learners, students from SC, ST and OBC communities...all person been pushed retired of accidental not due to the fact that of deficiency of endowment but due to the fact that they cannot spend lakhs of rupees connected coaching. “The aforesaid committee study besides highlights structural failures, syllabus gaps crossed boards, anemic formative assessments, adjacent teacher enactment and emergence of dummy schools, these are not accidental,” helium said.

“There are reports that a cardinal committee recommended astir the behaviour of JEE, NEET and CUET...the preparations statesman arsenic aboriginal arsenic 11th grade, the sheet recommended to bounds coaching hours to 2 to 3 hours, clasp the exams doubly a twelvemonth and adjacent displacement to hybrid appraisal utilizing committee exams,” helium said.

He demanded a afloat reappraisal of NEET and its interaction connected equity. There should besides beryllium a roadworthy representation to fortify schoolhouse acquisition and urgent measures to extremity the coaching nexus.

The Ministry of Education had earlier this twelvemonth acceptable up a nine-member sheet to analyse issues relating to coaching and the emergence of “dummy schools” too the effectiveness and fairness of entranceway examinations.