Getting two important projects for the State, an elated Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday said these projects would not only be beneficial to Haryana but the entire country.
Hooda was speaking at the function after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone of Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership and National Cancer Institute at village Jasaur Kheri in Jhajjar district.The Chief Minister reminded that the Prime Minister during the Nuclear Security Summit held at Washington, USA, on April 13, 2010 had announced that a Global Centre for Nuclear Energy would be set up. On the completion of this Centre, village Jasaur Kheri would be a well known place on the international map.
Similarly, Hooda said that the National Cancer Institute would prove to be a landmark in the area of cancer research in the country and would lessen the deficit of tertiary cancer care in the country. Hooda said that today about 28 lakh people in the country have been suffering from cancer disease and this institute would provide ample opportunities of research and treatment of this dreadful disease.
Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Gulam Nabi Azad thanked the Haryana Government for providing 350 acres of land and said that the OPD of AIIMS-II, being constructed over 300 acres of land at village Bhadsa in district Jhajjar, has already started functioning whereas the foundation stone of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to be constituted on 50 acres in the same campus has been laid.
“This Cancer Institute would be the first ever largest health institute of the country in Government Sector post independence,” he said. Azad said that it is the first time in the history of India that as many as 71 Cancer Institutes would be opened in the country. The foundation stone of first NCI has been laid on Friday and 20 State Cancer Institutes (SCI) and 50 Regional Cancer Institutes (RCI) would be set up shortly he said adding that in the coming time all 35 Union Territories and States would have Cancer Institutes.