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Govt to run 6 medical colleges under the PPP model
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Feeling the financial crunch the state government has decided to run six medical colleges and a few ITIs and polytechnic colleges under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model with immediate effect.
The state cabinet that met here on Friday approved this decision saying it would help in imparting better education and maintaining the high standards set by the Medical Council of India.
Official spokesman said that the state cabinet has decided to hand over construction and maintenance of six state medical colleges coming up in Kannauj, Azamgarh, Jalaun, Ambedkar Nagar, Banda and Saharanpur and two para-medical colleges in Jhansi and Saifai to private entrepreneurs under the PPP guidelines set up by the Department of Industries.
The state government had approved setting up of medical colleges in Kannauj, Jalaun and Azamgarh in 2006-07 in Saharanpur and Ambedkar Nagar 2007-2008 and in Banda in 2008-09. Medical colleges in Kannauj, Jaualn, Ambedkar Nagar and Saharanpur would be set up under the special component plan.
Construction work in these medical colleges is going on in full swing and it is almost 80 per cent over in Kannauj, Jalaun and Azamgarh. The academic session in these colleges are likely to start from next year. These colleges will have 100 seats in MBBS course. The construction work in Saharanpur, Banda and Ambedkar Nagar is going on.
“In view of high construction cost and strict guidelines imposed by the MCI the government has decided to hand over construction and maintenance of these colleges to private entrepreneurs under PPP model,” the official spokesman said.
Similarly government has decided to hand over 6 ITIs and eight polytechnic colleges to private entrepreneurs under the PPP model.
In another decision government has decided to relax the guidelines in allotment of houses under Mahamaya Awas Yojana. Earlier only the BPL families were entitled to avail this facility. With changed guidelines those SC/ST poor people who do not have houses of their own will get the accommodations at cheaper rates.
Government has also decided to withdraw the system of toll collections by contractors and certain agencies on bridges constructed under the PPP model. The official said that there were reports about illegal toll barriers being set up by certain agencies in collaboration with contractors who were taking money which was not actually coming to government’s kitty.
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