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JAIPUR: While talking about ‘Urban India and Rural Bharat’ divide, vice-president Venkaiah Naidu on Monday expressed the need to make it mandatory for MBBS graduates to serve in rural areas before granting them the first promotion. Speaking of the affordability of medical care, Naidu said that medical costs were mostly met out-of-pocket by the people in India. He was delivering the 3rd convocation address of Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology in Jaipur on Tuesday.“One of the ways to overcome shortage of doctors, particularly in rural areas is to make it mandatory for MBBS graduates to serve in rural areas before granting the first promotion to them,” he said. “An area of concern that needs to be addressed is the lopsided infrastructure development in the health sector. He urged that the private sector needs to supplement the efforts of the government, especially in bridging the urban-rural divide..