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JIPMER doctors urged to drop strike plan

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"An amicable settlement is emerging"

Pondicherry: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) Parliamentary party leader, M. Ramadoss has appealed to resident doctors and students of Centrally administered JIPMER here to drop their plan to go on 48 hour long strike on Tuesday. (The strike was aimed at opposing the Central government's decision to introduce quota for the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in higher educational institutions).

He said in a release here on Monday that the strike would be uncalled for as an amicable settlement was emerging between the Central government and the striking doctors. Any plan to go on strike would only hit the patients.

Stating that the policy of reservation for OBCs was a national policy dictated by the constitutional requirements and the laws of Parliament, he said that it was only aimed at correcting the social injustice meted out to the OBC students for the last 58 years.

Mr. Ramadoss said that the 93rd amendment to Constitution was passed in December 2005 and the Bill became an Act in January this year. Hence it would be unjust and improper to agitate against an Act of Parliament.

The government had also come forward to protect the interests of open category students by increasing number of seats in nine medical colleges, including JIPMER.

He also said that students who had already been admitted and who were going to be admitted this year in medical colleges would not be affected by reservation policy to be implemented from next academic year.

Students of JIPMER would not be affected and hence they should not put the poor and indigent patients to suffering and misery by the ``unjustified strike''. He appealed to them to drop their strike plan.

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