DRME Punjab decides to relocate Mohali Medical College
The newly set up medical college in Mohali is all set to be relocated to the Knowledge City, Sector 81, read here to know more.
Dr BR Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences in Phase 6 is the newly built medical college and it is also known as the Mohali Medical College. It is affiliated with Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot.
The college was set during the previous Congress government in the buildings of the existing Mohali civil hospital, Punjab Health System Corporation (PHSC) and a training institute of the health department. Now, as per the decision of the directorate of research and medical education, Punjab, the college will be shifted to the land allotted for the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), an autonomous institution of the department of science and technology, Government of India, in Sector 81.
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority had allocated 80 acres for INST which has already been constructed on 35 acres. The Mohali Medical College will be constructed on 25 acres of vacant land, as reported by Hindustan Times.
Former health minister proposed better site
The former health minister Dr Vijay Singla had mooted the proposal to have a “better” site for the medical college in April this year due to a lack of land for expansion. After this proposal, a three-member committee of senior IAS officers had identified three sites for the college — at Jujhar Nagar, near Phase 6; Medicity in New Chandigarh and Sector 81, where the Punjab government had acquired 381 acres to set up Knowledge City in 2009.
Six reputed institutions are already based in Knowledge City including the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Nano Science and Technology Institution, Indian School of Business, Bio-Technology Park, National Agri-Food BioTech Institute and Centre of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing.
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