NEET is the best and only option: Ashok Ganguly

Students in rural India seem to have lesser chance of success because of their repetitive and stereotypical teaching-learning process, said Ganguly in an interview

Ashok Ganguly, former chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), tells Sahil Makkar that problems and concerns with respect to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) need to be addressed. Edited excerpts:

How genuine are the concerns of those protesting NEET?  

NEET is the best thing to have happened in recent times in the professional examination system in India. The protests are one-off incidents; one cannot generalise or make an opinion from such incidents. However, if you talk to students across the country, there are concerns and misconceptions that need to be addressed timely and appropriately.