Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh will inaugurate the fifth allopathic medical college of State in a function to be organised in District Headquarters Raigarh on Wednesday.
The spacious campus of this college has been constructed at the cost of `106.35 crores. Chief Minister will dedicate the campus and commence the MBBS course there on Wednesday.
For the first year of this course, Medical Council of India (MCI) has approved 50 seats. The college campus also consists of hospital of capacity 500-bed, hostel of capacity 250-seat and a nursing hostel of capacity 150-seat.
As per the earlier announcement of Chief Minister, this new medical college will be named after former Rajya Sabha member from Chhattisgarh late Shri lakhiram Agrawal.
After AIIMS Medical Colleges in Raipur, Bilaspur and Jagdalpur (Bastar), this will be the fifth government allopathic medical college of State. In last five years, State government has established Medical Colleges in Jagdalpur and Raigarh. Medical college in All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has been started in Raipur, last year.
As per the schedule, Chief Minister will leave Raipur via helicopter at 2 pm and reach Pusaur block headquarters of Raigarh district at around 2.45 pm, where he will grace the gathering of Chauhan Samaj.
Thereafter, he will reach village Bandarchua, situated near district headquarters Raigarh, around 3.50 pm and inaugurate the campus of new medical college there.
And then at 8.10 pm, Chief Minister will grace the concluding programme of Akhil Bharatiya Chakradhar Sangeet Avam Nritya Samaroh, to be organized at Ramleela Maidan, as Chief Guest.