Sunday, May 14, 2006
Quota row hots up, spreads across country
Medicos today intensified their anti-reservation protest in the national capital and several cities across the country by striking work and disrupting services at state-run hospitals, causing hardship to thousands of patients.
The medicos also intensified protests at Amritsar in Punjab, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Bangalore in Karnataka and Cuttuck, Burla and Berhampur in Orissa.
In Delhi, Vinod Patro of the AIIMS Resident Doctors Association said, "We will continue our hunger strike and will not attend our duties."
"We demand a total rollback of the proposal to give 27 per cent reservation to OBCs and a review of the present reservation policy," said Amitasha, a representative of students of Lady Hardinge Medical College.
