In a controversial comment, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi Tuesday mentioned 90 per cent of scholars who go overseas fail the National Entrance cum Entrance Test (NEET), the qualifying examination for learning drugs in India. However, Joshi added that this was not the time to debate why college students have been shifting out to check drugs.
His assertion, mentioned to a bunch of reporters, got here on the day India marked its first casualty within the Russia-Ukraine battle. A 21-year-old fourth-year MBBS pupil died amid shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest metropolis.
Senior Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala, reacting to the remarks mentioned, “The Modi authorities has left 20,000 kids on their very own, turning their backs on accountability and discovering faults amongst Indian college students who’ve gone to Ukraine. It’s embarrassing. It is the fruits of insensitivity and satisfaction of energy. Apologize to the youngsters and their households.”
Mr Prahlad Joshi
The Modi authorities has left 20,000 kids on their very own, turning their backs on accountability and discovering faults amongst Indian college students who’ve gone to Ukraine.
it is embarrassing. It is the fruits of insensitivity and satisfaction of energy.
Apologize to the youngsters and their households.#UkraineWarfare https://t.co/1sGea2VqIH
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) March 1, 2022
Navjyotu Patnaik of the Congress social gathering, too, hit out on the minister for his remarks. “So, Joshi ji, are you saying this is the reason why our stranded medical students in Ukraine don’t have a right to return to India safely? (sic),” he mentioned in a tweet.
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi known as upon the personal sector to increase its participation with the purpose to supply most docs throughout the nation, noting that numerous college students pursue medical schooling from smaller nations. “Today our children are going to smaller countries to study, especially for medical education. They go despite the language barrier. Millions of rupees are going out of the country. Can’t our private sector enter this field in a big way? Can’t our state governments make policies so that India can produce a maximum number of doctors,” Modi had mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
