The Tata Steel will fund setting up of a 100 bed super specialty eye care hospital at Samarjhola village under Hinjilicut block in Ganjam district. Sankara Eye Hospital of Tamil Nadu will implement the project and operate the hospital.
A grant agreement was signed here on Wednesday between Tata’s Gopalpur project VP Arun Misra and Chennai-based Sankara Eye Hospital Trustee and Secretary S Visvanathan.
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Atanu Sabsyasachi Nayak and Minister of Science and Technology, Higher Education, Rural Development (Rural Water Supply) Dr Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy, senior officials of Tata Steel like Chankya Chaudhary, Rajeev Singhal, MC Thomas, Biren Ramesh Bhuta and Sankara Eye Hospital officials Wg Cdr V Shankar, S Srinivas and Prof Narayan Satpathy were present.
According to the agreement, Tata Steel will extend a grant up to Rs42.3 crore for construction of the hospital.