India, Oct. 19 -- Nearly two months after receiving a written assurance on stipend enhancement, MBBS and BDS interns across Jammu and Kashmir on Monday evening held candlelight marches at Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) and SKIMS Medical College Hospital, Bemina, protesting the delay in issuing a formal government order.

ADVERTISEMENT The interns expressed resentment over repeated assurances without concrete action, alleging that the government had failed to honour its commitment to implement the hike within a month.

An AIMSA representative said that representatives of the interns met the Director General, Finance (Budget), and the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the Health and Medical Education Minister at the Civil Secretariat on...