The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : NIMS: YSR nod for HRA hike

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Friday, Apr 18, 2008
ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

NIMS: YSR nod for HRA hike

Special Correspondent

Rs.186-crore Speciality Hospital for Accident and Emergency soon
Three additional floors for stem cell and transplant unit on cards

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Thursday agreed to the proposal of the management of the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) to hike the HRA from 15 to 30 per cent to its employees.

He asked the management to discuss the proposal for increase in salaries and allowances of the faculty in the executive and governing council meeting, according to a press release from the Chief Minister’s Office.

He said that a Rs.186-crore Speciality Hospital for Accident and Emergency would be opened soon by NIMS soon for which civil works had already started.

Research

NIMS director, D. Prasada Rao informed Dr. Reddy that the department of science and technology, Government of India, had sanctioned Rs.25 crore for stem cell research to be undertaken jointly by NIMS and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.

The ECIL proposed to collaborate with NIMS for developing medical electronics and IT solutions.

He said that it was proposed to construct three additional floors in the institute’s millennium block for stem cell and transplant unit.

It was also planned to take over the land and buildings allotted to A.P. Centre for Emergency Medicine to run the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Research and accommodate patients admitted under Rajiv Arogya Sri scheme.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Andhra Pradesh