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Odisha govt approves Tata’s bid to construct Bhawanipatna medical college
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha cabinet on Friday approved Tata Projects Limited’s bid to construct the 100-seated medical college at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district.
Tender for the construction work was floated with an estimated cost of Rs 202.39 crore in which three bidders– NCC Limited, Shapoorji Pallorji and Company Private Limited and Tata Projects Limited– were found technically qualified. Among the three, Tata Projects Limited stood lowest with a bid value of Rs 2,20,73,98,218, official sources said.
The construction work will be completed in two years of time without any price escalation.
The Odisha government has taken a gigantic step to improve the medical education in the state to cater to the needs of the qualified doctors to wide spread health institutions in the state.
Govt of India to open model degree colleges in three western Odisha districts
Following is a report from the Sambad:
University status for Rajendra College sought
BALANGIR: Balangir Lok Sabha member Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo on Monday sought university status for Rajendra (Autonomous) College. Kalikesh, who visited the college, held discussions with the staff over several issues including safety and staff crunch. He instructed the authorities concerned to solve the issues hampering the college’s development.
The MP also interacted with the State Home Secretary and the Balangir SP to sort out problems regarding safety on the college’s campus.Notably, Rajendra (Autonomous) College became a full-fledged degree college after the affiliation of Commerce faculty in 1964-65 and Science faculty in 1965-66. From 1978-79, it started offering post-graduate courses in Arts, Science and Commerce.
From 1967 to 2002, this college was under Sambalpur University. Currently, it is an autonomous institution as declared by UGC. The college is NAAC accredited as B++. The library of the college has more than 1 lakh books.
Narasingha demands agriculture university in Balangir
Following is a report from the https://www.telegraphindia.com:
Balangir: Local MLA and leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra has slammed the state government for not responding to the long-standing demand of the local people for the establishment of an agriculture university here.
Talking to newspersons here on Sunday evening, Mishra said that the state government had taken a decision in 2014 to set up an agriculture university in the Koraput-Balangir-Kalahandi (KBK) region. Ever since, the people of Balangir have been demanding that the agriculture university be set up in Balangir.
“The people of Balangir have been demanding the agriculture university for the last four years. I have also personally supported the demand and have contributed my bit,” he said. Mishra said that several local outfits have hit the street demanding the agriculture university. “At various times, the local people have launched protest drives demanding the university here. But the government is not responding to the demands of the people,” he said.
Mishra said he had written to chief minister Naveen Patnaik on June 28 requesting him to take up the project at the earliest. “I have written to the chief minister recently to honour the demand of the people of Balangir and take steps to set up the university here,” he said.
Mishra said that he had also requested the chief minister to set up a government engineering college in the region. “Balangir doesn’t have any government engineering college. I have requested the government to set up an engineering college here,” he said.
He has also urged upon the government to take over the Balangir Law College. “There is no government law college anywhere in Odisha. The law college here has adequate infrastructure. It is high time the government takes it over so that it becomes the state’s first government law college,” he said.
Odisha govt releases Rs 202 crore for proposed Kalahandi medical college and hospital
Following is a report from the TOI:
BHUBANESWAR: The state government has sanctioned and released Rs 202.39 crore for the proposed medical college and hospital in Kalahandi district.
With infusion of funds, the construction of the medical college will start soon, health minister Pratap Jena said.
The tertiary care heath institution will fulfill long-time aspirations of the people of the region. The people of the district and nearby regions will no longer have to travel to cities for advanced and specialised treatment, thereby saving on out-of-pocket expenditure on health.
It will also usher in a new era of socio-economic development in the region.
The minister said the project will be undertaken on Turnkey basis under supervision of works department. The state budget has allocated Rs 302.39 crore for the MCH and tendering process is set to begin soon. Ancilliary establishments like 300 seat men’s hostel and 150 seat women’s hostel, 100 senior resident and 60 seat hostel for nurses will also be constructed along with 86 residential quarters for faculty members and doctors. Besides, 150 seat nursing hostel, 36 quarters for paramedical staff and a 650 seat state-of-the-art auditorium will be constructed.
The construction of the hospital building will be undertaken by Vedanta Limited as per agreement with state Government. The cost of the project is estimated at Rs 100 crore to be borne by the company.
Jena said the Kalahandi Medical College is targetted to be completed and ready within two years.
The Kalahandi MCH will add 100 MBBS doctors to the strength in the state every year.
MCI team visits proposed Balangir Medical College
Following is a report from the TNIE:
BALANGIR: A three-member team from Medical Council of India (MCI) visited the proposed medical college and hospital here on Tuesday. The MCI team wanted to ascertain whether the available infrastructure in the college fulfilled the requirements for getting operational from the upcoming academic session.
The visit is significant especially when the aspirants are going to appear for NEET, the national level entrance test for admission into various medical colleges in the country, on May 7. The admission process may begin in July.The Medical Council team consisted of Nandaraja, Kamal and Gangadhar Gouda. Dean of Balangir Medical College and Hospital Lalit Kumar Meher accompanied the team during their visit. The team visited the college and hospital in two groups.
Team member Nandaraja accompanied by Medical College dean Lalit Kumar Meher visited the main hospital campus, including the medicine ward, surgery ward, TB department, casualty and the maternity and child hospital. The other team comprising Kamal and Gangadhar accompanied by Balangir chief district medical officer Sugyanendra Mishra concentrated on the outpatient department and some newly constructed structures near the main campus of the hospital.
Odisha govt signs MoU with Vedanta for medical college in Kalahandi
Following is a report from the http://odishasuntimes.com :
Kalahandi: The Odisha government today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vedanta Group, a globally diversified natural resources company, to set up a 500-bedded medical college and hospital in Bhawanipatna in the district.
The tribal-dominated district had hit the headlines of national and international media and caused embarassement to the State government for its poor healthcare facilities after the Dana Majhi episode in August, 2016.
The MoU was signed in presence of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and State Health and Family Welfare Minister Pratap Jena.
Sonamali Bag, Director of Medical Education & Training (DMET) of the State government and Rahul Sharma, Director of Corporate Strategy at Vedanta, signed the agreement.
As per the agreement, total Rs 350 crore will be invested for setting up the proposed medical college, of which Vedanta will spend around Rs 100 crore.
While the State government will run the medical college and hospital, Vedanta will develop infrastructure support for it.
Official sources said as many as 100 MBBS seats will be available in the medical college.
The Chief Minister has directed the Family and Welfare Department to start the construction work of the proposed medical college soon and complete as early as possible.
Chief Secretary AP Padhi, Development Commissioner R Balkrishnan, MLAs of Kalahandi district among other officials were present.
Notably, in April last year, the CM had announced to set up new medical colleges at Koraput, Mayurbhanj, Puri, Bolangir, Balasore, Kalahandi and Keonjhar to tide over the shortage of doctors in the State.
Patnaik had laid the foundation stone of the medical college at Bhangabari in Bhawanipatna, the district headquarters town of Kalahandi, in November 2016.
Admission to Balangir Medical College will start from Sept 2018
Following is a report from the Telegraph:
Balangir: The state government has announced that admission to Balangir medical college would begin from the coming academic session.
The health and family welfare department’s commissioner-cum-secretary Pramod Meherda announced this on Thursday evening. Meherda, who is the nodal officer for Balangir, is on a tour of the district.
Earlier, delegates of various organisations of Balangir such as the Balangir Citizen Committee, Bhumika, Being Human and the Balangir Merchants’ Association met Meherda and raised the issue of the proposed college.
After a meeting with district collector N. Turumala Nayak, project director of the Balangir district rural development agency Maheswar Mallik and chief district medical officer Sugyanendra Mishra, Meherda told reporters that admission of the first batch of MBBS in Balangir medical college would commence from the coming session.
He said all preparations were going on to ensure that the college became functional from September. “Things are going pretty well, and we have enough time to complete the requisite works before the medical college becomes functional in September,” he said.
Meherda further said a Medical Council of India team had visited to take stock of the college infrastructure last year and would pay a visit again in April. “Last year, the council had visited the proposed college site to study its infrastructure. They would visit again in April,” Meherda said.Meherda also paid a visit to the 100-student strength medical college building and other infrastructures on the campus at Gandhrel, the site of the proposed college. He also visited the 300-bed hospital.The news has brought cheer among the aspirants, who are going to appear for the NEET, the national-level entrance test for admission into various medical colleges in the country.
Harish Rout, who would take the exam in May, said he was elated to hear that there would be admission in Balangir medical college in the coming session. “At last, the dream of the people of Balangir is going to be fulfilled,” he said. The UPA government at the Centre had in 2014 planned government medical colleges in four places in the state – Koraput, Balangir, Baripada and Balasore. Student admissions to the colleges in Koraput and Baripada had begun in the last academic session in 2017.
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