Govt asks docs to call off strike as interest protected

New Delhi, May 29: The Government today urged doctors and agitating students to call off their strike as the centre has come a long way to protect their interests in view of the proposed 27 percent reservation for OBCs in the higher educational institutions.

''The government has offered right things to agitating doctors.

They should see the benefit,''Health Secretary P K Hota told UNI today. He hoped that now with the Supreme Court being involved in the issue, the agitating medicos will call off their strike Mr Hota, who alongwith the Cabinet Secretary B K Chaturvedi and Prinicipal Secretary T K A Nair is involved in the negotiations with the agitating medicos, said that they should realise that the government has come a long way to protect their interest.

''They should cease their agitation and trust the government's efforts. We have clarified that the government had never had any intention to trouble the students,'' he said.

Mr Hota said he was hopeful that after constitution of the ''Oversight Committee'' by the government on the reservation issue, ''our young colleague will appreciate all that has been done to clear their doubts and apprehensions. They would consider the issue deeply and see practical way of life and take it forward.'' Now even the Supreme Court has taken care of the issue, Mr Hota said while referring to the apex court's decision on a PIL today to examine the issue of reservation. The court while issuing notice to the Centre, has expressed hope that agitating students would call off their agitation in the larger public interest and also in the interest of patients.

The court, while granting eight weeks' time to the respondents to file their response, refused to stay the operation of the impugned order on the grounds that it was a policy decision.

It directed the Union Government to explain the basis of determining the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and rationale behind adopting norms for identifying OBCs.

UNI

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