'A'NEET'A' suicide

                                ‘A’ NEET ‘A’ suicide

A few days back everyone was moved with the issue of Anitha killing herself. The word ‘a’ means no in Sanskrit. Ashok means no worries. Ashardoma means no devotion. ‘Anita’ pronounced to me like ‘A’NEET’A’. Anitha wanted no improper NEET.  NEET has plural opinions. From one viewpoint, it is better to hold NEET while the other demands a discard of the same.

NEET has frozen the mobilization of black money. Almost hard workers and deservers get into medicine. Many cases come, where a biology student is pushed to take up medicine to have prestige in the society.....for their parents. Those parents hardly hesitate to cast the holy and precious money to create a doctor who is not even aware of spotting the organs in the anatomy. Parents have to understand that medicine is not a business but a service. Paying some lakhs will not become a compensation or an expiation for producing an inefficient doctor.  Those, who hardly possess money to give capitation can find themselves blessed with NEET. However, a divergent thought comes into my mind when Anitha killed herself. This troubled the entire state. People in the state got themselves involved in protesting against this exam.

The principal reason, people pointed out is the discrimination in the education system. Of course, we have the liberty to blame the education system but not the content we study. It is not the system, which demands mark from a very tender age. Teachers, parents and the institution form the crucial part in misleading their wards to take the narrowest path of reaching the destination through fake resilience and sometimes-frustrating hard work. This should be brought under control. No one can go around telling that it is the fault of the student to score poor marks.

Anitha was deprived of her medical dedication not because of her low marks in NEET but the taboo the whole country has created through the past years. She would have concentrated on NEET than on the board exams but the scenario around pushed her to take up her effort for HSS exams.

I cordially go with NEET, when what I say in the following statements are implemented.

1.       Students need not take up their HSS exams.

2.       Every UG course must have its own entrance to recruit students.

3.       Questions must be unique in its own way so that people, who are interested, can only attend and not those that come under compulsion.

4.       The 12^th classes would be held as usual.

5.       The quality of the schools are assessed with the traits like discipline, eco-friendly atmosphere and the attending of students to competitions.

If all these things were implemented there would be justice attached holding to NEET. One wagon cannot serve for two masters at a time. A student cannot concentrate on both the HSS exam and NEET.

The most ridiculous one is that, the paper, when I heard from my friends, had no question on Hippocratic Oath. Every doctor is mandatorily required to be thorough with the Oath and Thirukkural athigaram concerning medical profession.

 Doctors are born with a heart to serve and not with a silver spoon. I expect the Hippocratic Oath, I find in, doctors who treated my Grandfather patiently at Vellore ; a doctor relative of mine who earned only a meagre property; the doctor next to our house who says to the nurse not to ask fees from a man who could not afford;  a doctor who opens the door for his patients; the doctor who trusts God to be his supreme operator and he being a puppet in God’s hands and a devotee of Mother Teresa at Bangalore, a doctor who leaves his house behind and comes at night to attend on his patients, in every upcoming doctor.
NEET is just an exam that comes once in a year like vacation, but life is very precious. Kindly those who have not got qualified for NEET never mind. There are wide doors open for us. 

                 REST IN PEACE ANITHA!