Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur   

Activists burn copies of G.O. 118

Protest: Activists of CPI, AIYF burn copies of G.O. issued for according semi-autonomous status to Government Medical College in Anantapur on Sunday.

ANANTAPUR: Activists of Communist Party of India (CPI) and All India Youth Federation (AIYF) on Sunday burnt the copies of G.O. No. 118 issued by the State Government on April 25 creating the posts of Director and Executive Registrar to the Government Medical College here as part of according the semi-autonomous status to the college along with four other medical colleges and two dental colleges.

Led by D. Rushyendra Babu, D. Shakuntala, P. Narayanaswamy, A. Lingamaiah and others the Left party activists went to the medical college in the evening, took copies of the G.O. issued for creation two news posts for the college as part of the exercise to accord the semi-autonomous status to it and burnt them on the hospital road in protest.

They alleged that the State government had deceived the people of the district again as it had assured to exclude the medical college here from the list of colleges to be accorded the semi-autonomous status keeping in view the economic conditions of the people and backwardness of the region.

A four-month agitation taken up by the associations of doctors and other staff of the medical college and the teaching (general) hospital attached to it and the people’s organisation late last year earlier this year had made the government to exclude the college from the list of semi-autonomous colleges.

The new status to the college was a prelude to privatise it including burdening the students in terms of admission fee and contractualising the services of all working for the college and hospital.

They would meet on Monday to chalk out the strategy to oppose the clandestine move of the government.

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