Harsimrat visits AIIMS construction...

Tribune News Service  

Bathinda, February 21

Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday visited the AIIMS site on the Bathinda-Dabwali road. During her visit, she took stock of the construction work of the project.

Talking to mediapersons, Harsimrat expressed satisfaction over the construction work and hoped that the OPD of the AIIMS would start functioning soon. 

She said the work on the OPD block and the Ayush block were under way on a war footing. She, however, hit out at the state government for allegedly not initiating the work to set up a power grid on the AIIMS premises. 

The MP accused the government of deliberately delaying the projects brought in to the state by her. She alleged that the government did not facilitate the power supply to a cold storage chain in Jalandhar that was supposed to be inaugurated by her on February 25. Replying to media queries, Harsimrat condemned the state government for “failing to deliver on its tall promises” such as complete debt waiver for farmers and Ghar Ghar Rozgar to unemployed youth in the state. 

She said the number of farm suicides had gone up under the Congress regime in the past couple of years.

Meanwhile, the authorities are also looking for a transit campus for initiating the MBBS classes of the AIIMS medical college as they intend to start its academic session from July this year. 

A team of the PGIMER, Chandigarh, along with officials of the Centre and state government on Monday had visited four institutes proposed for the purpose. 

The places proposed by the administration for starting  the session are Advanced Cancer Institute, Guru Kashi University; Government Polytechnic College, Jaisinghwala village; and Adesh University.

Coming up on 177 acres on the outskirts of Bathinda at a cost of Rs 950 crore, the AIIMS will be a 750-bedded premier medical institute, which will have 10 speciality departments and 11 super speciality departments. 

It will also have 16 ultra modern state-of-the-art operation theatres along with a 100-seat medical college and a 60-seat nursing college. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid its foundation stone in November 2016.