Students on jallikattu stir donate blood for JIPMER patients

: More than 100 students,including girls, part of hundreds who had camped at AFT mill ground here for the past five days in support of Jallikattu, today donated bloodto a mobile blood bank set up near the venue by an NGO, for the benefit of patients admitted to JIPMER emergency ward.
The NGO, Uyirthuli, had pitched the mobile blood bank, attached to the centrally administered JIPMER hospital, near the venue of the agitation.
"Youth and students are always prepared to rise to social causes such as voluntary blood donation as it will help save precious lives", a section of the students told reporters.

The students also helped police regulate traffic near the mill, which is close to a railway level crossing on the Puducherry-Mudaliarpet route.
Though the students refused to meet representatives of political parties on all five days, Some members of political parties were today seen staging a one day fastseveral metres away from the AFT mill ground.