Guwahati, May 26 -- The Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, Manipur, initiated an emergency services boycott on Monday against "unjust" fee hikes for post-graduate courses.

The boycott follows the expiry of a five-day extended deadline set to revert the annual fee from Rs 3 lakhs to the original Rs 1 lakh for the October 2022 batch.

Notably, the protest began with a boycott of routine services from May 21 and is in response to the administration's failure to reverse the fee hike.

The RDA in its release stated that the decision to boycott the emergency services follows the end of extended deadline of 5 days set to revert back the annual fee for post graduate course of JNIMS ...