J&K Students like their competitors in several states and union territories of the country travel to other countries for pursuing medical and engineering courses in neighbouring countries after failing to qualify for medical and engineering courses through NEET a national level entrance test held annually for the medical and engineering courses. Had coaching standards for NEET been upgraded at the local coaching centres in Jammu & Kashmir, thousands of medical and engineering aspirants won’t prefer to seek admissions on capitation fee in medical and engineering colleges in neighbouring countries. The quality of coaching at the local coaching centres is so poor in Jammu & Kashmir that thousands of students prefer to pursue coaching at famed coaching centres in Delhi and Kota in Rajisthan. Interestingly most of the candidates pursuing coaching in famed coaching centres at Delhi and Kota easily qualify for medical and engineering courses through NEET examination. Generating interest in competition for furtherance of the broader objective of qualifying NEET examination is the only way to bring professional brilliance in the medical and engineering professions in Jammu & Kashmir. Never forget that professional brilliance in medical and engineering profession would consequently bring perfection in the working of healthcare and engineering sector in Jammu & Kashmir. By all probabilities increasing intensity in the interest of youth for medical and engineering courses on capitation fee necessitates change in the pattern of preparations for NEET examinations at local coaching centres in Jammu & Kashmir and fact remains that coaching at the local coaching centres can’t be upgraded without regulation of teaching at the coaching centres in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. The medical and engineering aspirants themselves also have to understand that capitation fee is not substitute to competition. Never forget the fact that getting a degree in medicine or engineering is not as important as is the professional perfection in both medical and engineering streams which have a direct bearing on the lives of the people and the delivery of the public services.
Keeping in view the intensity of the interest of youth in the medical and engineering courses the change in the pattern of preparations for the annual NEET examination has not only become inevitable but also unavoidable. While the onus for upgrading the standards of coaching lies at the coaching centres, the government intervention for the purpose of intense regulation of teaching at the coaching centres has also become inevitable and unavoidable.
While the youth have to change the tracks for preparations, it is for the government to raise the standards of coaching at the coaching centres through prompt regulation of coaching centres in Jammu & Kashmir. Not to talk of regulating the class room teaching at the coaching centres the government does not even regulate the fee structures of the coaching centres the way it regulates fee structure of the private schools in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. Keeping in view the intensity of the interest of youth in the medical and engineering courses the change in the pattern of preparations for the annual NEET examination has not only become inevitable but also unavoidable. While the onus for upgrading the standards of coaching lies at the coaching centres, the government intervention for the purpose of intense regulation of teaching at the coaching centres has also become inevitable and unavoidable.
