GST (Goods & Services Tax) for medical college. It should not sound any bizarre. It is and it has been paid for the upcoming medical college in Palamu.
According to the principal of the medical college Palamu H K Singh “The Government has paid `54,000 as GST for an inspection fee worth `3 lakh for Medical Council Of India on whose receipt of 3.54 lakh only then the Medical Council of India sent its three member team here in the mid week of December last year, which carried out intensive inspection for two days here.”
Singh said, “This 3 lakh is the mandatory fee for inspection by Medical Council of India on which comes 18 per cent of the GST.” The 120 bed Sadar hospital in Daltonganj has been attached to this medical college.
Ground floor and first floor of the three wings of the upcoming Medical College at Pokhraha about 12 Kms away from Daltonganj in Palamu district are ‘ready for occupancy’ said the project in-charge Amit Bhowmik.
Bhowmik said The G plus 1 are fit for being class rooms while tools and equipments when brought in here the necessary labs too would be ready to use.
He said by May end the construction of this medical college building will be complete. Two hostels one each for boys and girls having 100 bed capacity each are also coming up at Pokhraha.
CM Raghubar Das had laid its foundation while the Jharkhand state building construction corporation had allotted this construction work to the Maharashtra based company Shapoor ji Pallonji Pvt Ltd.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to do online inauguration of this Palamu medical college and other two medical colleges one each at Dumka and Hazaribagh on February 17 from Hazaribagh.
H K Singh principal of this medical college Palamu who is a senior faculty in DMCH Dhanbad said the first year admission is all set to end by 31st of August and the intake capacity of this college is 100 students.
However Singh said “We wait for Lop. It is letter of permission. This is given by the medical Council of India. Without LoP nothing takes off academically at all. The admission and teaching depend upon this LoP in the medical colleges in the country.”
Expressing hope Singh said, “We are sure to get this LoP and once we will be armed with it teaching in this medical college will take off.”
