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The AIIMS row

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' alleged intervention in the functioning of AIIMS is welcome. It cannot be termed high handedness. The people of Delhi suffered a lot during the anti-reservation protest by the students and resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, backed, rather managed, by the management of which the Director also forms a part. It is the Government's responsibility to make the doctors understand the meaning of service. The Minister has acted in the overall interest of AIIMS. He has shown the courage to pull up the elite. Institutions are built for the people, and not the other way round.

T. Ranjit,
New Delhi

Both the Minister and the AIIMS Director P. Venugopal are devaluing the name of the prestigious institute. The administrative issue is unnecessarily getting clubbed with the anti-quota stir. If the allegation that the Minister is interfering in the day-to-day administration is true, it is unfortunate. Such interference can damage its autonomous nature. Both the Minister and Dr. Venugopal should be relieved of their posts. They seem to be egging on the students and staff of AIIMS to satisfy their own egos.

R. Sreenivasan,
Vellore, T.N.

The common man does not know where exactly the problem lies and who is right and who is wrong. But it was wrong on the part of the Minister to say the Director can go if he likes. His statement exposes his lack of experience in handling sensitive matters. It is time the Prime Minister intervened to set things right.

T.V. Rao,
Thrissur, Kerala

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