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Stage set for Sonia's visit to Kadapa, Kurnool

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Congress president to open super speciality hospital RIMS at Kadapa today

HYDERABAD: The long-cherished dream of the people of Kadapa to have a state-of-the-art super speciality hospital and a medical college will come to fruition on Wednesday when UPA chairperson and AICC president Sonia Gandhi inaugurates the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) at Putlampalli village.

The stage is set for the inauguration of the Rs. 150-crore RIMS campus at a picturesque location. Spread over a sprawling 200-acre area, the new facility consists of a medical college and 750-bedded teaching hospital in addition to hostels and staff quarters.

With a built-up area of 24,473 sq.mt., the RIMS has a dedicated drinking water supply system, an electric sub-station, supported by three auto start generators for uninterrupted power supply. Ms. Gandhi will also inaugurate a nursing college and lay the foundation stone for a dental college involving estimated Rs. 22 crores.

Ms. Gandhi will arrive by helicopter at RIMS at 11.20 a.m. She will inaugurate it at 11.30 a.m. and then address a public meeting at its campus at noon.

Tight security

She will later leave at 1 p.m. for Brahmamgari Matham in Mydukur where she will unveil a pylon and release water to irrigate 50,000 acres. Heavy security arrangements have been made at RIMS, which is surrounded by Palakonda hill range, in view of naxal threat. She will leave for Kurnool at 2. 30 p.m.

In Kurnool, Ms. Gandhi will declare open Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy Memorial Park on the right bank of the Hundri river in the city. After landing at 2.50 p.m. she will formally declare open the memorial park, constructed at a cost of Rs. 2.66 crores, and address a public meeting at STBC Ground.

The opening of the park coincides with the fifth death anniversary of former Chief Minister Vijayabhaskar Reddy.

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