Eying Future; Nixing NEET; Sizzling Platter
Opinion Watch
Eying Future
The Indian Express in its Editorial on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech opined that while he set eyes on future, compassion for immediate concerns in Manipur and Nuh in Haryana missed the focus. The Noida-based daily said that the national character is still in the making. It added that the definition and structure of the future portrayed from the ramparts of Red Fort was Modi’s own.
Modi cult owes to his craft of selling dream in plenty. His Independence Day speeches like at any platform are all political with sight on elections. The sweeping broom of Amrit Kaal seeks people to dream in broad daylight.
Nixing NEET
The Asian Age in its Editorial cited the example of S. Anita of Tamil Nadu, who died by suicide after failing to clear NEET to argue that the girl from the Scheduled Caste community would have definitely entered a medical college if the old system of selecting candidates based on marks in the higher secondary school examination was followed. “From a total 1,200 marks she scored 1,176. But in NEET her score was just 86 out of 720,” said the daily, adding spotlight on the state government looking for an immediate solution to the issue.
NEET was envisaged as a measure to reform medical education with standardise entrance and exit. But the execution of the plan, as is the case with several others, has been creaky and erroneous.
Sizzling Platter
The Economic Times in its Editorial has warned that the rampaging food inflation may mar any prospects of the colling of the headline interest rates. The business daily opined that while the core inflation, excluding food and fuel, remains just one percentage point above the RBI’s target of four per cent, the food inflation has just bolted with cereals, dairy, pulses and other items heating up on price fronts.
Brokerages are hoping that the RBI may begin cutting rates from December, while Modi in his I-Day Speech has hinted that the government will take measures to deal with inflation. It’s worthwhile to examine if inflation management is the sole job of the RBI, and if not what has the government been doing with all those claims of having heralded a common market for agri-products in the country.
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