The Government Medical College Action Committee, which headed agitation for establishment of a Government medical college and hospital in Baleswar has demanded that education in the college begin from the next academic year.
At a meeting held at the Gandhi Smruti Bhawan here to observe the committee’s eleventh foundation day on Sunday, the committee also demanded that work for the proposed AIIMS satellite centre in Baleswar be expedited.
The speakers from various walks of life lamented over the snail’s pace at which the works of the two projects are progressing and demanded completion of the project on a war footing, failing which the committee would embark on agitation from block headquarters up to the State Assembly till fulfilment of the demands.
The committee further demanded establishment of an Aurvedic college and a medicinal plant nursery in the patch of 110 acre of land at Baunsamuha in Nilgiri. Besides, it demanded establishment of a nursing and pharmacy training college in the vacant patch after shifting the Baleswar jail from the present location.
Several senior committee members including Ananta Pradhan, Mahendra Prasad Dhal, Gouranga Panigrahi and Kanchanbala Patra were addressed the gathering.