Paving way for the establishment of private medical colleges in Jharkhand, the State Cabinet on Wednesday okayed new policy under which interested parties will be provided a maximum grant of Rs30 crore for the purpose. The cabinet passed a total of 18 proposals including a proposal for modernisation of police department.
“Essentiality certificate will be issued only after they fulfill the preconditions like – minimum of 20 acres of land along with a copy of deed and mutation, a running 300 bed hospital and the interested party must be registered as a company, trust of society. A copy of Income Tax return of the interested party must also be enclosed along with the application,” said Additional Chief Secretary NN Pandey.
According to NN Pandey in case the land is made available by the government, the interested party will have to furnish a solvency certificate of Rs10 crore. The grant money to the parties will be made available by the Ministry of Health.
Out of the total seats in a particular medical college, 50 per cent of the seats will be filled up by the State Government through medical entrance examination conducted through any agency. Incentives have been determined like this – Rs20 crore in two installments for 50 seats, Rs25 crore in three installments for 100 seats and a maximum of Rs30 crore in four installments for 150 seats, he said.
“In case land for the medical college is made available by the state government, the cost of land will be deducted from the grant money,” said the Additional Chief Secretary.
The Government will make all efforts to make available all kinds of basic amenities like roads and ensure electricity supply from a separate feeder. The medical college will also be linked to various schemes and programmes of Central and State Government.
In another important decision taken by the cabinet, a nod to the proposal of Police Reforms and Modernization was also given on Wednesday. The proposal was prepared after extensive brainstorming during several rounds of meetings with Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretary, and other Secretaries of the concerned departments along with the representatives of Police Association and Police Men’s Association.
“The motive of this proposal is to bring improvement in service delivery department so that a cozy atmosphere is developed between police and public,” said Pandey. Some of the salient features of this proposal are gradation of police stations, Outposts and units, determination of standard strength of police force in police stations, notification of un-notified police stations, progressive and modern personnel policy, Training programme of high standard and basic infrastructure at police stations, he added.
Pandey further added that several additional posts of SI (3168), ASI (2903) and Inspectors (77) will also be created where some of the posts of lower rank will be surrendered while increasing the posts of Sub-Inspector rank.