GUWAHATI, Jan. 21 -- Grappling with shortage of specialist doctors, the State government is weighing legal options, including filing of FIRs, against those PG doctors who have passed out of State medical colleges and haven't served here in compliance with the conditions in the bonds they signed.

The Director of Medical Education has served notices to 13 PG doctors who skipped the counselling process for contractual engagement and 63 others who have not reported to their allotted place of assignment.

'If they do not report within fifteen days, we are going to take strict action this time. The government may have to lodge police cases against the doctors for breaching the PG Bond conditions and file money suits to recover the stipends the g...