After the suicide of postgraduate medical student Payal Tadvi over casteist slur by her classmates, Maharashtra medical education ministry has decided to conduct the awareness program in all medical colleges.
Girish Mahajan, medical education minister told DNA that all possible help will be extended to Payal's family. "I have asked the dean of medical colleges to conduct awareness programs. Every six month, the counselling of these students will be done. If any complaints are there, then it will be addressed immediately. Each student life is important," Mahajan said.
Mahajan further said that they have also asked medical colleges, to identify the students who indulge in ragging and habit of making casteist slurs.