Thiruvananthapuram: Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is being flooded with messages from Tamil Nadu expressing gratitude for making all arrangements for candidates who arrived in Kerala for writing the NEET exam. Students and parents are sending the messages through WhatsApp and mobile SMS.
Kerala government had opened help desks at railway stations and bus stands to provide information and other guidance to candidates arriving from Tamil Nadu. Directives in this regard were issued by the chief minister to collectors and police chiefs of districts before Sunday’s exam. In Kerala, it was in Ernakulam district that the largest number of Tamil Nadu students sat for NEET. The messages thanking the chief minister are being received in the phone numbers obtained from the help desks in Ernakulam.
Around 5,000 students from Tamil Nadu were allotted exam centres in Kerala, Karnataka and Rajasthan. CPM Tamil Nadu secretary K Balakrishnan had requested Pinarayi Vijayan over phone to arrange the necessary facilities for students from the neighboring state.
