Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the “regressive and undesirable” rule, which necessitates Common University Admission Test (CUET) for Under Graduate programme in all Central Universities.

“There is no doubt that this CUET, similar to NEET, will side-line the diverse school education systems across the country, grossly undermine the relevance of overall development-oriented long-form learning in schools and make students rely upon coaching centres for improving their entrance examination scores,” reads the letter sent by CM Stalin to PM Modi.

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He further flagged the concern that since the CUET exam is based on the NCERT syllabus, it will put students who have studied on the state boards and belong to the marginalised family in a disadvantageous position.

“I wish to reiterate that any entrance examination based on NCERT syllabus will not provide an equal opportunity to all students who have studied in varied State Board syllabi across the country. In most States, State Board syllabus students constitute more than 80 per cent of the total student population, and these students invariably hail from the marginalised sections. Hence an NCERT syllabus based entrance examination would place this deserving majority in a disadvantageous position in securing admission in
Central Universities,” the letter reads.