Medical college for Safdarjung Hospital cleared

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, OCT. 30. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today cleared the long pending proposal to establish a medical college at the Safdarjung Hospital here. Called the Indraprastha Medical College, the institution would come up on a 15-acre site next to the hospital. It would be set up at a cost of Rs.81.59 crores.

Announcing this, the Government spokesperson said that admissions would begin from the current academic session. Offering undergraduate medical education, it would have 100 seats. It will be the third medical college to be run by the Central Government, after the Lady Harding Medical College here and the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) at Pondicherry. In Delhi, with a population of 14 million, it would be the fourth medical college.

The CCEA also gave its nod to a Rs.38-crore HIV/AIDS project to be implemented in Karnataka and Rajasthan with assistance from the Canadian International Development Agency.

Besides, it approved a grant of $20 millions from the U.N. for the `Janshala' education programme sponsored jointly by the Centre and the U.N. system. The project to be implemented in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Chhatisgarh and Jharkand has been designed to promote elementary education in select educationally backward districts and blocks. It would particularly focus on girls and marginalised sections of society.

The CCEA also approved an upward revision of the Maharashtra State Education Project to Rs.10.71 crores from Rs.6.26 crores to introduce activities like opening of alternative schools, setting up of block and cluster resource centres, which had been left out in the original perspective plan.

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