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Tamil Nadu
By Feroze Ahmed
They also submitted a petition to the Government urging it to form a committee to evolve a mechanism to stop the entry of private medical colleges, to check against their commercialisation, and to evaluate if more medical colleges were needed at all. Welcoming their decision, the Director of Medical Education, C. Ravindranath, said disciplinary action taken against students would be dropped. "They can write their examinations now," he said. The decision on postponing the examinations would be taken tomorrow. The medicos have been asked to report to classes by June 1. The Government had issued suspension orders to over 5,000 undergraduate medical students and had announced stringent disciplinary action against house surgeons and postgraduate medicos. Student leaders said they arrived at the decision considering the welfare of the public and that of students who had examinations in June, but made it clear that their contention against private institutions still held good. "Our decision to call off the strike is only a comma, not a full-stop," the student president, Amudha Kalaigam, said. The medicos conceded that they had failed to achieve their primary demands for a legislation banning new private medical colleges and withdrawal of the controversial order 211, which facilitates their entry. But they said their protest was a success as it had highlighted to the entire country the threat of such commercial institutions. Other demands such as increase in stipend and withdrawal of hike in fees had been conceded in earlier talks, the medicos said. The students arrived at their decision after being locked in discussions all of yesterday on whether or not to continue the protest. While some wanted the strike to go on, others disagreed. The medicos had already been weakened by the doctors' decision to pull out of the strike on Monday, and final year students were concerned about their not being able to sit for examinations. Indications over the last two days were that many students wanted to give up the protest, but were hoping for a face-saving measure. Students had earlier started sending `peace-feelers' to government authorities for a third round of talks. The Health Minister, S. Semmalai, however, had ruled out further negotiations with them.
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