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TN govt warns doctors against going on strike
Chennai, May 07: Tamil Nadu government today said it would invoke Essential Services Maintenance Act against government doctors if they struck work in support of the striking medical college students.
Chennai, May 07: Tamil Nadu government today said it would invoke Essential Services Maintenance Act against government doctors if they struck work in support of the striking medical college students.
"The government will crush the strike with an iron hand,"
health minister S Semmalai told the state assembly in a
statement.
He said doctors did not have any connection with demands of striking students and the government would not tolerate any agitation affecting the public.
Claiming that the students strike had been "instigated by some one", he said the Supreme Court had ruled that the policy in the matter of establishment of a new medical or dental college was totally with the Centre.
"State government role has been limited to examining the desirability and feasibility of the location of the proposed colleges," he said.
The students should address their agitation to the Centre and not the state government as the latter had no powers except issuing an essentiality certificate, he said on demand to ban self-financing medical colleges in the state.
He said AIADMK government had only relaxed rules allowing medical colleges within 100 km radius of an existing college.
The students did not oppose the previous DMK government order which stated new medical colleges had to be established in unserved areas preferably 100 km away from the existing medical colleges and were now opposing an amendment to that order. This itself showed the agitation was instigated by some politicians, he said.
Bureau Report
He said doctors did not have any connection with demands of striking students and the government would not tolerate any agitation affecting the public.
Claiming that the students strike had been "instigated by some one", he said the Supreme Court had ruled that the policy in the matter of establishment of a new medical or dental college was totally with the Centre.
"State government role has been limited to examining the desirability and feasibility of the location of the proposed colleges," he said.
The students should address their agitation to the Centre and not the state government as the latter had no powers except issuing an essentiality certificate, he said on demand to ban self-financing medical colleges in the state.
He said AIADMK government had only relaxed rules allowing medical colleges within 100 km radius of an existing college.
The students did not oppose the previous DMK government order which stated new medical colleges had to be established in unserved areas preferably 100 km away from the existing medical colleges and were now opposing an amendment to that order. This itself showed the agitation was instigated by some politicians, he said.
Bureau Report