Chennai, Mar 31 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin today urged Prime Minister to exempt the State from NEET and allow the State Government to fill all professional seats including MBBS, BDS, AYUSH courses on the basis of Class XII marks alone. In a memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister in New Delhi, he said The Tamil Nadu Government has been consistently opposing NEET for admission to Medical Courses. He said considering the plight of the poor students in getting admission to medical seats, he made an announcement on 05.06.2021 to constitute a High Level Committee under the Chairmanship of Retired High Court Judge Justice A.K.Rajan. The Committee under took a detailed study on whether the NEET based admission process has adversely affected the social, economic and federal polity and the students of rural and urban poor, those who studied in Government Schools, those who studied in Tamil Medium or any other section of students in Tamil Nadu and submitted its recommendations on July 14, 2021. An Official Committee of Secretaries under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary was constituted to suggest appropriate measures to implement the recommendation of the High Level Committee. The Committee of Secretaries has suggested to promulgate an Act, similar to Tamil Nadu Act No.3/2007, indicating the need for elimination of NEET in Medical Education and get the President’s assent for the same. This will ensure social justice and protect all vulnerable student comm ties from being discriminated in admission to medical education programmes. A bill in this regard was passed by the Assembly on September 13, 2021 and sent to Governor on September 18, 2021. It was returned by the Governor for reconsideration. It was reintroduced in the Assembly on February 8, 2022 and the Bill was passed again in the Assembly after reconsideration and sent to the Governor for reserving the same to the President, he pointed out. GV 1433