Medical U’grads protest against MPMC

November 22, 2011, 10:06 pm , The Island.

by Dasun Edirisinghe

Medical undergraduates yesterday launched protests opposite the University Grants Commission (UGC) in Ward Place and the Higher Education Ministry demanding an immediate end to the Malabe Private Medical College project which got underway in 2009.

Police headquarters moved in additional personnel as undergraduates caused massive traffic jams in the area for about two hours.

Organizers told The Island that about 2,000 undergraduates had been involved in the protest, the latest in a series held to pressure Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake to abandon the Malabe project.

They vowed to continue their protests until the government abandoned the project. A group of undergraduates made representations to Higher Education Secretary Dr. Sunil Navaratne.