New Delhi: on thursday, resident doctors have decided to hold a token strike to demand revision of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations and an increase in their salaries and allowances.

An umbrella organisation of 15,000 resident doctors across 41 government hospitals in Delhi nown as The Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA), had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to revise the recommendations that they termed were 'particularly discriminating to doctors'.

Dr Narayan Dabas, convenor, FORDA, said, "If our demands are not fulfilled, we will go on an indefinite strike from June 1".

On Wednesday, the additional secretary in the health ministry Arun Panda held meeting with medical superintendents of Ram Manohar Lohia (RML), Lady Hardinge and Safdarjung hospitals over the issue.

Dr Pankaj Solanki, President of FORDA, said, "Against the desirable density of 85 physicians per lakh of population, the availability is 57 physicians. But the CPC has only observed this scarcity and has done little only to boost the morale of the doctors".