PG med students threaten strike, demand pay hike
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 23.06.2018
Postgraduate medical students in Tamil Nadu have threatened to boycott work along with undergraduate residents and students of super speciality courses, if the government does not increase their stipend.
Members of the interns and post-graduate association, which started an agitation on Thursday with a human chain, said they had gathered support from in-service candidates, state government doctors and other doctors association.
“We have made several representations to the government stating that we are the lowest paid in the country. PG students get between ₹27,100 and ₹29,100 depending on their year of study, compared to the ₹90,559 the central government students get. The tuition fee at several central government colleges are one tenth of the that of state colleges. While Kerala pays up to ₹45,000, other states pay between ₹48,000 and ₹60,000,” said Dr S Anbarasan, a student at the Madras Medical College, who is leading the agitation.
Even within the state, while in-service candidates are treated on a par with students and allotted the same amount and hours of work, they are paid much higher, he said. Postgraduates, who pursue super speciality courses get ₹32,800 compared to the ₹1 lakh in central institutions, and between ₹49,000 and ₹94,513 in other states.
Director of medical education A Edwin Joe said a study by his department also showed that house surgeons, PG students and super speciality students are least paid in TN. “We have requested for an increase in stipend for all, almost on par with that in Karnataka. For non-service PGs, we have sought a hike of ₹40,000,” he said.
The health department has agreed to the request and forwarded the file to the state finance department.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 23.06.2018
Postgraduate medical students in Tamil Nadu have threatened to boycott work along with undergraduate residents and students of super speciality courses, if the government does not increase their stipend.
Members of the interns and post-graduate association, which started an agitation on Thursday with a human chain, said they had gathered support from in-service candidates, state government doctors and other doctors association.
“We have made several representations to the government stating that we are the lowest paid in the country. PG students get between ₹27,100 and ₹29,100 depending on their year of study, compared to the ₹90,559 the central government students get. The tuition fee at several central government colleges are one tenth of the that of state colleges. While Kerala pays up to ₹45,000, other states pay between ₹48,000 and ₹60,000,” said Dr S Anbarasan, a student at the Madras Medical College, who is leading the agitation.
Even within the state, while in-service candidates are treated on a par with students and allotted the same amount and hours of work, they are paid much higher, he said. Postgraduates, who pursue super speciality courses get ₹32,800 compared to the ₹1 lakh in central institutions, and between ₹49,000 and ₹94,513 in other states.
Director of medical education A Edwin Joe said a study by his department also showed that house surgeons, PG students and super speciality students are least paid in TN. “We have requested for an increase in stipend for all, almost on par with that in Karnataka. For non-service PGs, we have sought a hike of ₹40,000,” he said.
The health department has agreed to the request and forwarded the file to the state finance department.
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