India, Feb. 24 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee reached out to government doctors on Monday, announcing a hike in salaries of junior and senior doctors and her decision to revoke the suspension of six trainee doctors.

The chief minister also announced the government's decision to allow private practice of government doctors within 30km of their place of work, up from the existing limit of 20km.

"The salaries of interns, house staff, post-graduate trainees and post-doctoral trainees are being raised by Rs.10,000 and that of senior resident doctors by Rs.15,000," Banerjee said, addressing a gathering of junior and senior doctors and medical students in Kolkata.

This was the first such meeting of the medical fraternity addres...