This is the largest elephant in the room.
Whether NEET is implemented or scrapped, the current system of reservations in education in Tamil Nadu will see no change.
NEET has nothing to do with reservations for SC/ST, OBC and the quotas. NEET or not, the 69% reservation and 31% merit block remains the same, and 85% of medical seats will go to the state board syllabus by law.
Consider the 2017-18 session of MBBS in Tamil Nadu.
According to the tentative list, as on 23 August, there are 2,652 available seats.
As per the Provisional Merit List of candidates (MBBS/BDS), 93.3% may be classified as backward.
6.7% belongs to the OC (open category).
