After getting nod from Medical Council of India (MCI) in 2012, the proposal to set up a medical college at Bokaro is entrapped over ‘control stake’. The proposed joint venture (JV) of SAIl’s Bokaro Steel Plant (BSl) with any other medical institution for establishing and running a medical college is hindered due to stake tussle.
BSl management wants its control over the medical college while the other JV partner keens, wants majority of stake, sources said. “Now we have begun fresh talks with few selected medical institutions. It is very positive and constructive. All issues would be short out very soon”, said Anutohs Maitra, CEO of BSl.
Notably, BSl wants to set-up a medical college at Bokaro on public-private-partnership (PPP) basis. On this move management wants to upgrade Bokaro General Hospital (BGH) into a medical college.
BGH is on of the largest (910 bed) hospital of the country equipped with modern and sophisticated medical equipment including all essential infrastructures. Run by BSl, the hospital has an influx of patients not only from from Jharkhand but Bihar and West Bengal too.
The Medical Council of India (MCI) given its nod in the year 2012 for establishing and upgrading BGH as a medical college after the needful verification. later the management initiated the process to enter into JV talk with several medical institutions like Sri Chennai based Sri Ram Chandra Medical College, DY Patil Medical College Mumbai Manipal Medical College including others for setting up the college. But talk delayed over stake tussle.
Under the JV terms and conditions BSl will provide its hospital (BGH) as infrastructure and other arrangements for practical teaching facility to the college while manpower and other necessary facilities would be arranged by JV partner.
BSl will also provide land to the college for establishing its own building for classrooms and others on lease basis, sources said. However, Birsa Research Institute for Medical and Bio-Medical Studies (BRIMBS), a hospital running for the past six years at Bokaro Steel also on move to upgraded its 150 bed hospital into a medical college.
BRIMBS has already obtained needful certificates, NOC from the State Government for setting up the medical college; VBU has also given its consent for affiliation but we are waiting for MCI nod, official sources said.
Medical College at Bokaro is an eagerly awaited desire of the local residents, who seen a ray of hope as the BSl CEO assured for its earliest establishment.