rohtakchandigarh a day after the resident doctors association rda of pgims rohtak decided to withdraw from the ongoing strike against the bond policy for undergraduate students in the government medical colleges the protesting mbbs students said on friday they would continue their agitationa delegation of mbbs students and rda members met chief minister manohar lal khattar on november 30 and discussed the issue with him following which the resident doctors announced on thursday their decision to withdraw from the strikein a letter to the vicechancellor of the university of health sciences rohtak the rda said they held a general body meeting on december 1 and unanimously decided to withdraw from the strike with immediate effect and continue with regular hospital activities in the best interest of societythe rda also thanked the chief minister for his time and assurance regarding the amendments to the bond policythe mbbs students said they would not be bogged down by the rdas withdrawal from the strike and stick to their stand against the contentious policypankaj bittu one of the protesting mbbs students from the 2020 batch said they would wait for the gazette notification about the amendments promised by the khattar government and would decide on the future course of action after thaton the rdas withdrawal pankaj said their seniors were still with them they withdrew support because patient care cant be suspended for a long time he said adding that it would defeat their purposethe mbbs students have been demanding amendments to the bond policy with additional clauses of reducing the bond period to one year and want the compulsory hcms service bond and guarantee to be given by the haryana government within two months of the mbbs students graduatingharyana chief minister khattar had reduced the bond period from seven years to five years and lowered the bond amount from rs 40 lakh to rs 30 lakh besides this he had assured that compulsory contractual employment for the students would be for one yearthe state government also made significant changes related to the repayment of the bond amount by the students as those giving up government jobs would be asked to pay only if they get a significant raise in the salary or if their salaries were found to be much higher than government doctors