Pondicherry: The Pondicherry unit of the CPI-M has called upon the Administration to ensure that the privately managed professional colleges earmarked 50 per cent of the seats for the candidates sponsored under Government quota.

The Secretary of the party, V. Perumal, said in a release here on Saturday that the party's committee meeting held recently adopted a resolution in this regard.

Medical college

The resolution also urged that the Government should start its medical college during the 2006-2007 academic year itself as promised so that the aspiration of the students to do medical courses could be fulfilled.

Another resolution said that farmers were bearing the brunt of the fury of nature and also failure of monsoon alternately and the misconceived agricultural policy was also adding to their misery.

The crop loans borrowed by farmers from various institutions should be waived and the benefit of waiver should be extended to marginal, small and medium level farmers as had been done in neighbouring Tamil Nadu.

Fresh loans should be made available to the farmers. The party also reiterated its demand that the Government should distribute free house site pattas to the poor.

sAs many as 4,000 applications had already been submitted. Another resolution adopted at the meeting expressed concern over the continued increase in prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene and also cooking gas. This had come to cause dislocation in the lives of the poorer sections. The Centre should avoid any plan or move to revise upward the prices of petroleum products. Among those who participated included P. Selvasingh (executive committee member of the TN unit of the CPI(M)) and functionaries of the Pondicherry unit of the party, G. Ramassamy, L. Kalivarathan, Durai Arumugham, S. Ramachandran and K. Nilavazhagam.

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