The situation

Let's start with an insight into our life. We are residents or post graduate students pursuing various disciplines. After 5 and a half years of graduation and another couple in passing various entrance exams, we get admitted in PG courses. Hopes abound, of being able to support our family, of being financially independent. By the time we finish our residency, most of us are married, some with a child to nurture. As residents, we look after the welfare of all our patients. We are on duty 24x7, for 3 years on the trot, barely squeezing in time for food, sleep and family. The popular image of doctors, of a life of luxury far from worries, shatters in our faces. We get paid a mere Rs. 13 an hour (Rs. 9623 a month).

In comparison, residents in other states get paid anywhere between Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 47,000 a month. Even class IV workers now get Rs. 12,000 after the 6th pay commission. What a glaring difference!