The State Government is determined to make the new medical colleges self-sustainable and instead of separate universities for Medical and Ayush, one combined medical and Ayush University would be set up. The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat said this while taking a review meeting of medical education department here on Monday. He said that Rudrapur and Kotdwar base hospitals would be developed with an aim to integrate them with the medical colleges. Rawat gave orders that issues pertaining to land for proposed medical colleges in Pithoragarh and Roorkee (Haridwar) should be settled in the current financial year.
The CM directed the additional Chief Secretary Rakesh Sharma to make budgetary provisions for Dehradun and Almora medical colleges in supplementary budget and ask the Union government to supplement this budget. The CM was told that work on Nursing colleges at Almora, Pithoragarh, Tehri, Pauri and Chamoli is in progress. Rawat asked officials that nursing colleges in Champawat, Guptkashi, Bajpur and Gahad should be setup on the concept of integrated project.
In a separate review meeting the Chief Minister asked the officials of technical education department to ensure that the Polytechnic colleges of the state confer the norms of ICTE. He said that efforts should be made to make sure that the constitute colleges (Tanakpur and Uttarkashi) of Uttarakhand technical University (UTU) should start functioning from this year. He said that the vacant posts in polytechnic institutes should be filled by a recruitment process of Public Service Commission.
The meeting was attended by Yashpal Arya, Harak Singh Rawat, MlA Hemesh Kharkwal, Chief Secretary N Ravishankar and others.