MBBS for 6.5 years?

After completion of SSLC or Matric, students just blindly select the top group like Math-Biology to keep their options open for both engineering and medicine. When students make decision about their career especially on completion of their +2, many give a second thought about taking a medical course. From my times till now, I haven't seen much attitude difference in this aspect.

One main criteria or constraint that comes to picture is the length of the course work - 5.5 years and immediately after that too they cannot guarantee a good living. They need to struggle more or probably go for higher studies to make a mark in the medical system. All these will itself make people take a step back initially.

Now with Ramadoss, the union minister proposing one more year increase for the course work will make students just avoid the medical science as a whole. Though the proposal seems to be good that all students should go for an year of practicing in village conditions I think it would be better if the same can be reduced to 6 months and that too to be done in the any semester in last 1.5 years of the current 5.5 years itself. (I'm not too sure about how the course work is actually
framed...)

Hope the minister will see the actual issues via 'Marry me Minister' protests and make a systematic decision...