PM Modi to put basis stone of AIIMS Rajkot as we speak

Image Source : FILE PM Modi to put basis stone of AIIMS Rajkot as we speak
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the muse stone of the upcoming campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rajkot in Gujarat on Thursday by video conferencing. The campus is developing on an space of over 201 acres close to Khandheri village on the outskirts of Rajkot metropolis at a price of Rs 1,195 crore.

Deputy Director, AIIMS Rajkot, Shramdeep Sinha had earlier stated that Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel are anticipated to be current on the venue, through the basis stone laying ceremony.

The Central PSU HSCC Limited was setting up the campus and drawings of 9 buildings in it have gotten tentative approval.

The educational session of the primary batch of AIIMS Rajkot, comprising 50 MBBS college students, began on December 21 from its non permanent campus in Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Medical College.

It was inaugurated by CM Rupani with Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Union Minister of State for Health Ashwin Chaubey becoming a member of the occasion by video convention.

At the time, Vardhan had stated AIIMS Rajkot was a part of part six of the Pradhan Mantri Swastha Suraksha Yojana and can be a 750-bedded facility with specialty and tremendous specialty departments.

It would have 125 MBBS and 60 nursing seats sooner or later of time.

(With PTI inputs)

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