The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Medicos stage dharna against OBC quota

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Medicos stage dharna against OBC quota

Staff Reporter

To launch silent protest wearing black badges from today

BANGALORE: Protesting against the Centre's proposal to reserve seats for OBCs in elite educational institutions, undergraduate students of Bangalore Medical College on Tuesday staged a dharna on the Victoria Hospital campus here.

The students said their boycott and dharna would end on Tuesday and from Wednesday, it would only be a silent protest wearing black badges. This symbolic protest would continue till the Centre's decision on the issue was known, they said.

But, the interns and the postgraduate students who continued to work wearing black badges till Monday decided not to do so from Tuesday, according to Venugopal, President Junior Doctors' Association, BMC. These students would work as usual and wait for the Centre's decision till May 11 when the Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh is expected to respond.

Based on the Centre's response, a big rally is being planned here in which 700 medicos, including those from other medical colleges in Bangalore, are expected to participate.

The medical students were hopeful of getting the support of students of engineering colleges in Bangalore through the IIT-IIM Alumni Association which had offered its support.

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