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Charges on medical college project denied

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Minister for Health P. K. Sreemathy and Minister for Law M. Vijayakumar have refuted the allegation that the launch of the development project at the Thiruvananthpauram Government Medical College was a mere repetition of what had already been initiated several times in the past.

Addressing a joint news conference here on Friday, Ms. Sreemathy and Mr. Vijayakumar said the reports appearing in a section of the media in this regard were extremely misleading and baseless.

The schemes being launched by Union Minister for Health Anbumoni Ramdoss formed part of the Rs.120-crore Pradhan Mantri’s Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY scheme), the Ministers pointed out.

The Ministers said the Rs.13-crore ‘specialty block’ of the medical college, now under construction, is being re-designated as ‘outpatient block’ and a new ‘specialty block’ would be constructed at a cost of Rs.38.5 crore as part of the joint venture project. The reports suggesting that the project had been inaugurated several times in the past were meant only to block the development project initiated by the present government, they said.

Mr. Vijayakumar deplored the increasing tendency to create controversies over every development project and cited the Indian Space Research Organisation’s proposal to set up an Indian Institute of Space Technology as a case in point.

All kinds of canards were spread about provision of land for the project, but the government had stood firm and carried out its commitment, he pointed out.

Mr. Sreemathy said the Centrally sponsored development project at the medical college was the biggest of its kind in the history of the State. The State government had secured support for the project from the Centre by consistently following it up with the Centre.

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