To construct 50-bedded Hospital and Trauma Centre, Punjab Local Government Minister Brahm Mohindra on Sunday accorded permission to give 12 kanal land of Local Bodies Department in Dune Ke village in Moga district to the Health Department ‘free of cost’.
The decision was taken for the sole intent of providing quality health services to the backward area of the state.
Spokesperson of the Local Bodies Department said that keeping in view the utmost public priority of providing the health services to the backward areas, the Minister has given a go ahead to give this prime land alongside GT road free of cost to the Health Department.
Moga Municipal Corporation, on receipt of memorandum to provide land for hospital and trauma centre, had constituted a committee to select the land, said the spokesperson adding that the Committee had selected a stretch of 12 kanal land in Dene Ke village out of which five kanal was proposed to be given for 50-bedded Aayush Hospital and seven kanal for the Trauma Centre.
Spokesperson said that earlier, the Municipal Corporation, abiding by Municipal Corporation Act, 1976, put up proposal to sell this land on collector rate.
Moga MLA Dr Harjot Kanwal then approached the Local Bodies Minister Mohindra and apprised him the urgency of hospital and trauma center in the area, and also urged the Minister to give this land free of cost, said the spokesperson.
Spokesperson said that the Minister readily agreed to the MLA’s demand as the matter was pertaining to the quality health services to the backward area of the State. “The Minister ordered to provide this prime land free of cost to the state Health Department,” added the spokesperson.