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Hyderabad April 7 The Centre has decided to make it mandatory for medical graduates to do one year of rural service. Beginning 2008-09, all the graduates passing out of the medical colleges in the country will have to work in district and sub-district levels, according to Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare.

Dr Ramadoss, who was in the city to lay the foundation stone for Indian Institute of Public Health on Saturday, said the medicos would get their registration certificates only after completing the rural service.

About 29,000 graduates pass out of 262 public and private medical colleges in the country. "They will get stipend for the one-year service," he said.

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