Mumbai (PTI): Resident doctors and medical students on Sunday called off their six-day-old strike after an assurance by the Maharashtra government to meet their demands, including increasing the number of post graduate seats.

"The state government has promised us that all our demands will be met at the earliest due to which we have decided to call off the strike," Ravikant Singh, spokesperson for the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) said.

Interns, students and resident doctors across the state will resume duty by 6 pm on Sunday, he said.

Over 6,000 students and resident doctors from state-run medical colleges went on strike on April 15 protesting the reduction in seats for post-graduation courses and de-recognition of courses by Medical Council of India (MCI).

"The state government has also agreed to withdraw the termination notices issued to students who participated in the strike," Singh said. Striking doctors in Nagpur had been issued termination notices while in Yavatmal and Aurangabad the resident doctors were issued show cause notices.

The students, under the aegis of MARD, today met Principal Secretary (Medical Education) Amitabh Chandra and the head of the Directorate of Medical Education and Research W B Tayde after which the strike was called off.

Tayde said the Maharashtra government would continue to talk to the MCI and Union Health Ministry regarding increasing the seats for medical education and getting required recognition.