The Baroda Physiotherapy College Students Association president Nitin Patel and students representative Milan Nathani told Express Newsline that all of the about 120 students who are part of the institute in the city would miss lectures, take out a rally and stage a dharna in front of the college on Monday morning as part of their strike plans.

According to them, it was the second such strike during the past three years for the same demands as the government had neither accepted them nor made any efforts in the context even after repeated requests to authorities explaining the situation to them. They say the physiotherapy students seek Rs 2030 a month as stipend, at par with dental students, instead of the current Rs 1300, and post-graduate courses in Gujarat for physiotherapy students.

They also demand increase in the duration of the current bachelor's degree course from three and half years to four and half years.