Srinagar, June 23: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday expressed anguish over the “sinister developments which have engulfed the centralised examination processes”.
“Be it NEET-UG, UGC-NET and now NEET-PG which has been postponed indefinitely, the combined impact of this is irregularities and complete collapse of the processes, which affects vital sectors of higher education in the country,” the CPI(M) said in a statement.
The party said, “This is not merely the result of corruption which is prima facie established. This has emerged from centralisation, commercialisation and communalisation in the education sphere, which is an essential ingredient of the National Education Policy. The new government summoning the services of the CBI to investigate these scams confirms its approach to whitewash like it did with the Vyapam scam. These reflect the complete collapse of the policy prescriptions in higher education for which the entire government is accountable, particularly the HRD Minister who must resign.”
The Polit Bureau demanded that in a country as big and as diverse as India, the centralisation of governance of higher education should be reversed and the first step should be to scrap the centralised NEET exams. “Every state should be allowed their own separate procedures for conducting admission tests to regulate entry into professional educational institutions,” it added.
