No mandatory service for docs
Chief Mini-ster K. Chandrasekhar Rao has scrapped the rule requiring postgraduate medical students to work for a year in a government hospital.
On Thursday, Mr Rao said the government will introduce a Bill in the Budget session of the Legislature in this regard, and it will be implemented from this year itself. There has been a long-pending demand from the medical community to scrap this rule. The Chief Minister has instructed the officials concerned to ensure that students who will get their PG degrees this year be registered without serving the one-year tenure in a government hospital.
The CM reasoned that since the government is appointing adequate staff in government hospitals, there is no need for PG students to compulsory work in government hospitals.
In another development, he instructed that subsidies for selfemployment schemes should be extended to the Most Backward Classes beneficiaries in addition to SCs and STs.
The Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has scrapped the rule requiring post-graduate medical students to work for a year in a government hospital. Though the PG students have been agitating against mandatory government service rule for the past four years, the government did not heed to their demand.
KCR, who is on sops announcing spree in the election year to please all sections before the 2019 general elections, took the decision all of a sudden to scrap mandatory government service rule.
KCR said that the most backward classes corporation was already given `1,000 crore and allocations will also be made in this year’s Budget. In the past, under the economic support scheme, backward classes were given 60 per cent subsidy (`60,000 per `1 lakh) to set up any unit under self employment scheme. Since this was not deemed sufficient, the CM said an increase in the subsidy component and financial assistance should be given to set up 12 lakh units.
The CM instructed that for a loan of `1 lakh, the subsidy should be 80 per cent (`80,000), for `2 lakh loan the subsidy should be 70 per cent (`1.40 lakh) for the units ranging from `2 lakh to 12 lakh, the subsidy should be 60 per cent (maximum limit of `5 lakh). The CM signed on the file pertaining to subsidies to be given under self-employment schemes for the MBCs.
The CM is also expected to announce various sops to all sections in the Budget to be presented next week. The financial assistance for parents under Kalyana Laxmi/ Shaadi Mubarak to perform marriage of their daughters is being hiked from `75,000 to `1 lakh in the Budget.
Another `15,000 crore is being sanctioned towards farmers’ sops.