more-inGovernment doctors on Monday said they would continue their demand that the government withdraw its decision to do away with reservation in post-graduate degree courses for in-service doctors. Ever since the government issued two orders last month announcing that it was doing away with reservation in admissions to post-graduate degree courses, government doctors began protesting. Subsequent to the court order, Telangana Government Doctors Association’s wings at State-run hospitals continued to protest. At Gandhi Hospital doctors sat on hunger strike, which they said would be intensified. Their argument is, even with the system of weightage the government devised in lieu of reservation, in-service doctors cannot compete with fresh-out-of-college PG aspirants.

Source: The Hindu April 09, 2018 18:45 UTC