From http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/10/24/stories/2007102457690300.htm
TIRUCHI: The announcement of Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday that the proposal on one-year compulsory rural medical stint for the students would be drafted by December triggered vociferous protests from the student fraternity in the city.
About 120 house surgeons and 450 undergraduates and postgraduates took to roads after college hours on Tuesday, bracing heavy downpour. They raised slogans demanding the withdrawal of the directive.
Earlier, the students attended classes wearing black badges as a mark of protest.
Two representatives from 13 medical colleges in Tamil Nadu would meet shortly and discuss further course of action. The Tamil Nadu Medical Students’ Association (TNMSA) has contacted the medical student’s association of AIIMS, JIPMER, and medical colleges in Orissa and Maharastra in a bid to organise a nation-wide protest.
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