City doctors defy ESMA

TNN & Agencies / May 23, 2006, 03:46 IST

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Resident doctors association general secretary Dr Himanshu Goel said that they did not get any notice from the govt.

LUCKNOW: Notwithstanding imposition of essential services maintenance Act (ESMA) by state government against them, defiant junior doctors of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Insitute of Medical Sciences here on Monday continued their strike opposing reservation for OBCs in educational institutions.
With the 24-hour ultimatum to junior doctors to resume duties ending Monday and doctors sticking to their stand, the deadlock is expected to continue, said the doctors.
Resident doctors association general secretary Dr Himanshu Goel said that they did not get any notice from the government. "We have heard of invocation of ESMA through media reports.
We did not have any written intimation about it". "We are expecting such action from the government and prepared to deal with it", he said, expressing the association's resolve to continue their strike.

Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu CM M Karunanidhi on Monday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to implement 27% reservation for OBCs in institutes of higher educations, even as thousands of students across the country continued to protest against the move.
While medical students continued their hunger strikes, those from streams like engineering joined them. In Mumbai, IIT students decided to organise a relay hunger strike which other IITs will join.
In Indore and Chandigarh, medical students decided to protest by donating their blood and urged others to join their endeavour against reservations.
Meanwhile, the pro-reservation lobby also carried out rallies and demanded that reservations be implemented. Students of non-medical institutions joined the anti-quota stir in Kolkata even as the medicos' relay hunger-strike in West Bengal entered the fourth day.

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