Puducherry: More than 100 students, including girls, who had camped at AFT mill ground amidst many others for the past five days in support of Jallikattu, donated blood to a mobile blood bank set up near the venue by an NGO on Saturday, for the benefit of patients admitted to JIPMER emergency ward.
The NGO, Uyirthuli, had pitched the mobile blood bank, attached to the centre administered JIPMER hospital, near the venue of the agitation.
"Youths 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 seen staging a one-day fast several metres away from the AFT mill ground on Saturday.
