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Representative image RANCHI: More than 500 doctors, including senior residents, posted across six state-run medical colleges will boycott work and have closed down out-patient department (OPD) services after their talks with the state health department failed. The doctors have said that their arrears haven’t been paid as per the seventh Pay Commission from January 2016 to March 2019. A delegation of Junior Doctors’ Association (JDA) met state health secretary K K Soan on Monday afternoon after closing OPDs. Talking to TOI, JDA president at Rims Dr Vikash Kumar said: “We have been requesting the government to pay our pending arrears, but the government isn’t interested in addressing our concerns. We are now forced to go on a strike and we will be closing down OPDs at all medical colleges.”