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CPI stages demo over medical college project

PUDUCHERRY: Activists of the Communist Party of India on Thursday staged a demonstration protesting the “delay” in implementing the Puducherry Kamarajar Medical College and Research Institute project in the government sector.

Addressing the activists who staged the protest before the project site, Puducherry unit CPI secretary N.Kalainathan said the party had been consistently demanding that the Union Territory has a government medical college on the ground that adequate number of seats had not been allotted to the local students in Jawaharlal Postgraduate Medical Education and Research.

Even when applications had been submitted for setting up private medical colleges in the Union Territory, the CPI favoured the establishment of the government medical college, he said.

Though the then Puducherry government attempted to create an “illusion” that if permission was granted to the private medical colleges, 50 per cent of the seats would be earmarked for Puducherry, the CPI’s prediction that the move would not benefit the locals had come true now, he said.

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