E-Paper
Students take out anti-quota rally
STUDENTS OF the GSVM Medical College, the IIT-K and the CSJMU students union took out a rally against police lathi-charge on the medicos protesting against government quota policy. The rally was taken out from Motijheel to Medical college. To bolster the anti-reservation protest, several IIT alumni also took part in the rally. The agitating students planned to go to the district magistrate office to hand him over the memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister.
Medicos, IITians join hands
STUDENTS OF the GSVM Medical College, the IIT-K and the CSJMU students union took out a rally against police lathi-charge on the medicos protesting against government quota policy. The rally was taken out from Motijheel to Medical college.
To bolster the anti-reservation protest, several IIT alumni also took part in the rally. The agitating students planned to go to the district magistrate office to hand him over the memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister.
However, the administration persuaded some medicos and IIT students that some criminals were taking part in the procession under the banner of the University students’ union.
On hearing this, students became cautious. After this, additional city magistrate (ACM) SK Dubey entered the medical college premises and accepted the memorandum from the students.
Earlier, at Motijheel, hundreds of students, sporting black ribbons, started marching towards DM office raising anti-government slogans.
Before they could cross the Motijheel gate, some students were suggested by the cops to hand over the memorandum to ACM instead of going to the DM office. About 40 medicos, half-a-dozen IIT-K students, scores of University student union members and several other students of private dental and engineering college participated in the procession.
Allahabad
MLN Medical College students shut the emergency ward and OPD section of the SRN Hospital and took out a rally However, the students organised their own OPD on the lawns of the hospital to help patients. The medicos said, “While we want to lodge our protest and oppose the move to bring reservation for OBCs in higher education, on the other hand, we do not want the patients to suffer.”
The students alleged reservation would give entry to undeserving candidates in higher education which would affect quality of education.
Varanasi
The indefitnite strike by undergraduate and postgraduate students of Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, against enhancing reservations for OBCs in higher academic institutions, entered its second day here on Wednesday. The medical students continued to boycott all services including emergency services, out patient department (OPD) and intensive care unit (ICU) at Sir Sunderlal Hospital here today.
Normal medical services were crippled at SS Hospital in view of the RDA’s strike. Almost 80 per cent indoor and emergency wards of different departments wore a deserted look. Several operations could not be carried out. Sources said senior doctors performed some urgent operations only.