Medical seats for under-graduates and post-graduates remaining vacant in the NEET era, together with the Centre freezing the number of medical colleges and seats in (Dravidian) Tamil Nadu and the launch of the PM s Vishwakarma Scheme for the nation s craftsmen, are all seen as a bid to further reverse the state s progressive socio-economic agenda of and its achievements of the past hundred-plus years, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.