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if a service person in my department wants to prejudice his case, most certainly he must approach me through an MLA. Whether he belongs to my group or not, all that has no meaning; the moment a friend of mine gives a recommendation about anybody in my department, straightway he has put himself down to the case of being depromoted, as far as I am concerned. I have no further use for that official because I feel if he has direct access to me, let him come and see me if he has any genuine grievance, and I will listen to him and I will not stand in his way, but give him all encouragement. But if he thinks that he can influence me through some sort of political channel I think it would be doing a disservice to him, to the Government and to the administration if I should listen to such a recommendation.%u201dPVG Raju's recognition of the need for lady doctors led him to say, %u201cCertainly I do think that a woman makes a good medical practitioner, and the sooner we realise this the better for us in our own state and better for the country. Therefore, I feel that the time has come when we have to increase admission for women in our medical colleges. Only 20% of the seats are now reserved for women in the medical colleges and I propose that from this year onwards an extra 10% of the seats should be provided for women. This is the only way to positively solve the problem of having more women doctors in our country. Of course, this is for the cabinet to decide but I will take up the matter of increasing seats for women from this year on.%u201dThe role of Indian systems of medicine particularly Ayurveda and Unani in health-care and how they could be absorbed in the mainstream was a topic of great concern to him. His interactions with Swami Jnanananda had taught him 133