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GSVM medicos to intensify stir
RESENTMENT IS brewing among medicos at the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM) against the proposed quota hike issue. Medicos are also annoyed at the atrocities committed by police on medical students in Mumbai and New Delhi, but due to lack of leadership and alleged tyrant attitude of the college administration, they are unable to take any action, though momentarily.
RESENTMENT IS brewing among medicos at the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM) against the proposed quota hike issue.
Medicos are also annoyed at the atrocities committed by police on medical students in Mumbai and New Delhi, but due to lack of leadership and alleged tyrant attitude of the college administration, they are unable to take any action, though momentarily.
Nevertheless, on Monday medicos held a secret meeting at the college and decided to call back all those students who were on leave after the exam. Even messages were sent through SMS and e-mail to the students to return to hostels as earlier as possible.
Medicos have also chalked out a strategy to ensure that none of the student unlike the previous experiences would be made scapegoat by the college administration.
They are currently working on this issue in a clandestine manner before jumping into the agitation jointly across the State and some medicos have even received guidelines in this regard from students of Maulana Azad and Lady Harding Medical colleges in New Delhi.
Deploring the reservation card being played by the Central Government, a group of senior medical students said, “We would not protest against the reservation policy if the Government ensure that after the reservation there would be reservation in admitting patients as well.” The students further collaborated and said, “The government would have to ensure that the OBC patients are treated by only OBC doctors, similarly there should be SC doctor for SC patients and same with the other caste patients.”
Nearly, 400 medicos of W1 and Y1 batch are at present on leave after their exams and they have no option but to wait.
Commenting on the reservation issue, a medico said, “Sugar in blood within limit is life saving, but excess quantity is poison.”
Anger against the atrocities on medicos in other parts of the country is palpable here at GSVM Medical College. Moreover, medicos feel that when their counterparts in Delhi and Mumbai are not getting support from medicos of the State in the hour of need, then who would stand for them if same thing happens against them here in the city.
Moreover, medicos are tentative this time before jumping into any protest as when they went on strike last time after the Meerut PG entrance examination incident they were compelled by the higher authorities to call off the strike.
Several students even declared that they are living in the regime of a military junta not in any democracy.
Here medicos want to protest and they are interacting with their counterparts across the other medical colleges of the State but due to fear of disciplinary actions, they fail to take any bold decision.
Meanwhile, medicos have decided to take every action with alertness so as not to give the college administration any chance to harass them on academic front. Some medicos are also trying to coordinate with IITians before jumping into the joint protest.
Meanwhile, members of University Student Union on Monday burnt an effigy of Union Minister Arjun Singh, while protesting against atrocities on medical students across the country.
The varsity students blamed the Union Government of nullifying talents in the country by enhancing quota in higher studies.
Students also raised anti-Congress slogans at the demonstration at Shikshak Park. The demonstration was led by Arvind Raj Tripathi, former secretory of DAV College.
