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]]>To facilitate the meeting, the party has arranged accommodations at a local resort, booking 50 rooms to allow Vijay to personally meet the bereaved families and offer his condolences. A bus service has also been arranged for the families to travel to the venue. One family member of the victims shared with the media in Karur, “Many of us are going, and we are grateful for the arrangements.”
The tragic incident occurred on September 27, during a TVK event where Vijay delivered a speech. The stampede claimed the lives of 41 people and left over 60 others injured.
The announcement of this meeting has sparked a debate on social media, with some criticizing the actor for organizing travel and accommodation for the families to meet him, instead of personally visiting Karur to offer his condolences. Critics argued that it would have been more appropriate for Vijay to visit the affected families in their hometown.
However, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam defended the decision, stating that the arrangement was made because Vijay had not received permission from local authorities to visit Karur.
One of the grieving family members, Perumal from Velusamypuram, who lost his two minor daughters in the stampede, expressed dissatisfaction with the plan. He told reporters, “It is not right for the families to travel to meet him. He should have visited us.”
At present, the injured victims are not expected to attend the meeting in Mahabalipuram.
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]]>The Prime Minister stated that a proposal to cut VAT was made in November, but states like Maharashtra, West Bengal, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Jharkhand “for some reason” did not comply.
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]]>As the COVID-19 conditions have improved significantly across the nation, some states, notably West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Delhi, have opted to relax virus outbreak regulations like as the requirement to use face masks and the prohibition on social events.
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To achieve social fairness, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a bill on Monday to abolish the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) and allow admission to medical colleges based on Class 12 marks.
All parties backed the Bill, which seeks to provide for admission to UG degrees in medicine, dentistry, Indian medicine, and homeopathy based on Class 12 marks, including the main opposition AIADMK and its ally PMK, as well as others like the Congress. The BJP staged a walkout in protest of the government’s decision.
Stalin introduced the bill after a high-level committee chaired by retired judge AK Rajan delivered its report in July. The report was developed after going into roughly 86,000 representations from various stakeholders, the majority of whom claimed they do not want NEET, as per the retired Madras High Court Judge.
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]]>After much delay due to the second wave of COVID-19, and amid campaigns for a further postponement, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET 2021) for admission to undergraduate medical courses in India will be conducted today in 202 test cities.
The medical aspirant, identified as Dhanush, was the son of farm labourer and was found dead hours before the NEET exam was to take place. He had failed to clear the last two attempts at NEET.
Soon after his death, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin appealed to students to not lose hope and assured that a bill against NEET will be brought out tomorrow.
He said the youngster’s death reinforces the need to bring back education to the state’s list.
“The Union government’s indifference and adamant attitude over NEET continues to be the reason for suicide by promising students,” Mr Stalin said.
Several politicians and students have protested against the go-ahead given to NEET exam this year, given the ongoing pandemic and pleas by many students to reschedule it as the NEET date clashed with other exams, including those for compartment exams for CBSE students.
However, the centre had said it does not have any plans to suspend NEET and other common entrance examinations.
“We will pass a bill against NEET and I am confident we would win the support of all chief ministers,” Mr Stalin added.
“I appeal to students to not take any drastic decisions,” the chief minister said.
The National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the exam, had recently received approval from the Supreme Court of India to conduct it as per schedule. The court rejected a plea filed by some students saying NEET was clashing with other exams.
Tamil Nadu had abolished NEET exams for nearly a decade, saying that it favours affluent as even brilliant poor students and those in rural areas are unable to afford private coaching. Over the last few years, 15 medical aspirants have died by suicide in the state.
NEET was introduced during the UPA regime when Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was part of it. Then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi had managed to get presidential approval for exemption from NEET for the state. However, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government could not get a similar exemption from its BJP ally when it came to power, even though the state assembly had passed a Bill against NEET.
The ruling DMK recently constituted a commission under retired justice AK Rajan to study the impact of NEET in medical admissions. Armed with the commission’s report, the state government is hopeful of getting an exemption once again. This was also a key poll promise made by the party.
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]]>During the past eight years, the number of arts and science colleges have more than doubled from 69 in 2013 to 143 at present, the party founder leader S Ramadoss said. The number of hostels was not however increased correspondingly, he said, batting for more hostels.
While many new institutions are in rural areas, the hostels are mostly in urban regions. Though some hostels are located close to colleges, a rule however barred students from getting admitted to hostels if the location of colleges and hostels fell under separate revenue districts, though these two centres could be located relatively closer, he said.
Despite the fact that students of a government run college at Perumbakkam here may stay in a state run hostel in Guindy area, hostel administration does not allow students of that college stating that their institution fell under Chengelpet district. “It would take at least three hours to travel between Perumbakkam college and Chengelpet hostel. This is not possible.”
There are several vacancies in hostels across Tamil Nadu and if the government relaxed the rule on district borders for admission purposes and announced that students of any government college may join any state-run hostel, about “70 per cent of the problem can be solved,” he said in a statement.
Admission to arts and science courses in government colleges are in full swing and about 90 per cent of seats have been filled and the remaining seats are also expected to be filled soon.
Though students are happy that they have got admission to courses of their choice, those who have not got hostel admission are disappointed, the PMK leader said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Edge Media staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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]]>India would not hesitate to execute “counter-terrorism operations” against its rivals, according to the Defence Minister. The Defence Minister stressed that despite the problems on India’s border, the country’s national security “would not be jeopardized.” He was speaking at the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) in Wellington, Tamil Nadu.
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]]>The earthquake struck at 12:23 p.m. on Tuesday at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the National Center for Seismology. The earthquake, according to the IMD Chennai, produced tremors.
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]]>On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, religious institutions will be shut. The administration intends to resume schools for grades 9 through 12 on September 1. The courses will operate with 50% of the pupils adhering to strict COVID-19 standards. Nursing, Medical, and allied colleges will begin on August 16 with different Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
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