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All set for GMC golden jubilee fete

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 13. Curtains will go up on the golden jubilee celebrations of Gandhi Medical College (GMC) here on Tuesday with the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, is expected to inaugurate the festivities at a gala function on the college premises at 4.30 p.m.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the GMC Principal and Chairman of the celebration committee, G. Kishore Roy, and the Vice-Principal, Pradeep Deshpande, said the celebrations would be diverse in nature with a medical exhibition showcasing the work done by various faculties in the college slated for November while cultural events, inter-college sports competitions, continuing medical education programmes and above all, a forum where the old generation is set to meet the new generation were also being planned.

Alumni meet

The alumni meet, which Dr. Roy said would facilitate tradition to blend with modernity, would be for three days from December 29 and hundreds of GMC alumni, presently staying in the USA, United Kingdom, West Indies, the Middle East and Australia would participate in it.

The closing ceremony would be in the first week of January 2005. International speakers and experts from various fields of medicine were also being invited to deliver lectures of public importance during the celebrations.

Educational centre

The GMC Alumni Association president, D. Raja Reddy, said the association was planning to set up an educational centre to train medicos and paramedics. The centre, for which the association had already raised $ 2.5 lakhs, would have a library and guestrooms for visiting faculty apart from state of art audio-visual facilities.

The association was proposing to raise another $ 5 lakhs as a corpus fund. There were over 1,100 practising GMC alumni in the USA while the number was around 100 in the UK, Dr. Reddy said.

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