Thread by @GastroOneIndia

#RussianUkrainianWar #ModiActNow
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Now here is the truth delivered by an authority (not official though but by experience and by being an expert in the field).

"What union minister Prahlad Joshi says that '90% Indians who study MBBS abroad fail to clear qualifiers in India' is complete bull shit. It is a false narrative spread by a desperate administration that failed the student community on every front.

Each of these students actually qualified NEET and are admitted into foreign medical colleges based on a NEET rank.

NEET is a joke played on Indian students. For 2021, the qualifying marks were 138 out of a possible 720 marks.

That is 19% which wouldn't even make you pass your class 10th exam. This eligibility is brought down so that more students qualify and the pool of those who can afford a fees of Rs.1.25 Crores to Rs.1.5 Crores expands.

If you make the eligibility at 35%, most colleges can't fill their seats. NMC is a corrupt regulatory body controlling supply in the garb of quality, permitting lesser seats, charges high fees, and drives students away to foreign countries.

In fact, when NEET was imposed by Supreme Court, 90% of private colleges increased fees by at least 600% within a day. What was an upfront donation is now fees spread over 5 years. In 2020, of the 15.4 lac students who appeared, about 8.7 lac students qualified.

And a student with 7.5 lac rank also got into a private medical College. This student got 21% marks and will soon be your doctor.

The better students with better ranks but not necessarily the toppers are right now in Ukraine. Because, we made medical education unaffordable.

All we need to do is to open the gates, set up eligibility criteria for infra, teaching etc and announce that only those who charge Rs.50 Lacs over 5 years will be permitted to set up. There would be a rush. The license Raj will collapse.

Those monetizing short supply will suffer.

Create supply and make students prefer India. And the gates are controlled by National Medical Council which is controlled by Govt. of India."