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"Bandh as scheduled in Pondy"

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Protest against private medical colleges refusing quotas Protest against private medical colleges refusing quotas

PONDICHERRY: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam headed multi-party coordination committee is going ahead with its plan to hold a 12-hour long bandh from 6 a.m. on Tuesday. The bandh was to `condemn the non-cooperative attitude' of managements of the two unaided private medical colleges in admission of students to MBBS course under government quota. The institutions were refusing to accept the students under the government quota on the ground that they were `deemed universities'.

Addressing presspersons on Monday at the end of the meeting of the committee which includes Congress also, the Leader of the Opposition and convener of the committee, R.V. Janakiraman (DMK),said the bandh was to focus the difficulties faced by students in getting admission to the two colleges.

Mr. Janakiraman said the bandh was not against either the Central or Pondicherry Governments. "We are only strengthening the stand of the Pondicherry Administration to ensure that even institutions with deemed university status should admit students sponsored by the government,"

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Congress said the party was extending `moral support' to the call in the interest of students. It was a collective decision of the coordination committee.

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