CALL TO SCRAP GO: Women medicos boycotting classes at Gandhi Medical College on Thursday. — Photo: P.V. Sivakumar

HYDERABAD: Academic activity was disrupted in all the medical colleges in the State as the medicos boycotted classes demanding the withdrawal of G.O.No 19 issued with regard to reservations for in-service candidates in PG courses and suspension of the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of the NTR University of Health Sciences.

At Osmania Medical College (OMC) in Koti, students locked the main gate and prevented even the staff from entering the college. Mild tension prevailed at the OMC when a professor advised the students against the boycott. The Andhra Pradesh Medical Students' Association, which is leading the agitation made it clear that the boycott would continue till their demands were met.

The medicos were particularly angry with Vice Chancellor Sambasiva Rao and Registrar Jayakar Babu for adding nine grace marks for all the candidates, improving the chances of "failed" in-service candidates. The medicos said G.O. 19 that enhanced reservations for in-service candidates was the root cause of all the problems and it should be scrapped immediately.

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