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Enact law on seat sharing in private medical colleges, demands PMC

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It will `end the uncertainty' over actual quota for Government candidates

Puducherry: K. Lakshminarayanan (Puducherry Munnetra Congress) has urged the administration to pass a legislation to ensure equal sharing of seats in MBBS course between the Government and managements of the private medical colleges in the Union Territory.

Participating in a debate on demands for grants to some departments including Health in the Assembly on Wednesday, Mr. Lakshminarayanan said every year uncertainty prevailed on the actual quota for the Government in private medical colleges. The number of seats available for the students going through the Centralised Admission Committee does not have clarity for want of a permanent arrangement. Presently, the fixation of seats was done only on the basis of a government order, which was not effective. Hence, legislation should be passed to find a permanent arrangement.

Seaport project

Mr. Lakshminarayanan also said the Government should abandon the deep-sea port planned to be set up in Thengaithittu on the outskirts of Puducherry. The local residents, farmers and farm labourers had already risen in revolt against the project. The National Institute of Port Management had also come out with a report that the project would not be feasible and therefore the project should be scrapped once and for all. Any project that was posing a threat to environment, security of the local people and also sub-soil water table could never be permitted anywhere in the Union Territory, he added.

Vacant posts

The PMC member also wanted the Government to fill all vacant posts in the Labour department. The State level University announced some years ago should be set up without delay. The Law Department should come out with timely counselling to the Government on various issues, he added.

R. K. R. Anandaraman (Pattali Makkal Katchi) urged the Government to ensure that the candidates sponsored by the Government for private medical colleges were earmarked 50 per cent of the total seats available in the colleges here. He referred to the firm stand of the Tamil Nadu Government to protect the interests of the students there. Puducherry government should take similar measures, he added.

Hospital for diabetics

Mr. Anandaraman wanted the Government to open a specialty hospital for diabetic patients. Puducherry reported prevalence of diabetes among 12 percent of its total population.

He also wanted separate dialysis unit in the government general hospital here as instances of renal failure cases were on the rise.

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