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Girls high school building will be a thing of the past now

Staff Correspondent

It will be demolished to pave way for the medical college hospital

MAKING WAY FOR THE NEW: The Government Girls High School building in Hassan which is set to be demolished.

HASSAN: Students of the Government Girls High School in Hassan saw their school building for the last time on Thursday. The building will be demolished to pave way for the Rs. 42-crore Government Medical College Hospital building.

Now, it will be a thing of the past. The school that was close to the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Bus Stand was dear to many students who came from nearby villages. They could enter their school almost immediately after alighting from bus. So also was their return journey — they could immediately board their bus after class.

The new building would be ready within four months in Gandhada Koti. The environs would be excellent in Gandhada Koti as it has greenery.

Convener of the Save Gandhada Koti Horata Samithi R.P. Venkatesh Murthy speaking to The Hindu said: "We have to compromise for the sake of students. We allowed the construction of school/college building here. The school and college building would be ready in two or three months inside Gandhada Koti. Four acres has been earmarked for it.

"The remaining (eight acres) area will be developed as a park. All the buildings of the Forest Department, including residential quarters, will be demolished. The Government has allotted 10 acres of land to the Forest Department on Bangalore-Mangalore Road."

Mr. Murthy said they have requested district in-charge Minister H.D. Revanna to mark this eight-acre area in Gandhada Koti as "area reserved for park" in the town plan so that it was not misused.

Mr. Murthy said as the Minister has given an assurance, the May 2 bandh call has been called off. He said all new buildings at the Chamarajendra Hospital would be retained while the old buildings would be demolished.

He said he had suggested to the Minister to follow the pattern of the Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences in Bellary wherein three hospitals — main hospital, TB Sanitarium and the District Headquarters Hospital — are located in a radius of 5 km and are known as "VIMS Combined Hospitals".

Similarly, the Government can construct a 250-bed TB hospital, a 100-bed trauma hospital (as Hassan is on Bangalore-Mangalore National Highway 48) and a 250-bed hi-tech hospital on different localities in Hassan besides developing the 500-bed Chamarajendra Hospital.

All these hospitals could be considered as "HIMS (Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences) combined hospitals", he said.

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