MoU for Chamba college building complex signed

Our Correspondent

Chamba, January 23

The first phase of new building complex of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Government Medical College and Hospital (PJNGMC&H) to be constructed at Sarol, near Chamba, will be completed within 30 months.

This was announced by Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Deputy Speaker Hans Raj on occasion of Rs 319.53-crore MoU-signing ceremony of the first phase of the medical college building complex.

The agreement was signed between the medical college management and the NBCC (National Buildings Construction Corporation) Ltd, a Government of India enterprise working under the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs here today.

The Deputy Speaker said that the NBCC was associated with the construction works of AIIMS, Bilaspur and IIT, Mandi.

The MoU was signed between the PJNGMC Principal and Dean Prof (Dr) PK Puri on behalf of the HP government and NBCC senior executive director DDS Srivastava.

The Deputy Speaker said the first phase of the medical college would include construction of 200-bed college hospital, a hostel block, garbage incinerator block.

With the signing of MoU, the process for construction of the building complex was set to commence. All basic facilities pertaining to the medical college would be made available in due course of time. More specialist doctors would be posted in the medical college.

Local MLA Pawan Nayyar expressed his gratitude to the Central and state governments for signing the MoU for the first phase of medical college.