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| Court orders Classic Para-Medical Institute authorities to make alternate provision for its students | | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Aug 27: Additional District Judge, Srinagar has directed the owners of Classic Para-Medical Training Centre, Gulberg Colony Hyderpora to make alternate arrangements for the students undergoing various para-medical training courses at the Institute.
The court has also made it clear that the higher ups of Institute would be responsible for the consequences if any anything goes awry at the Institute. The order has come after complaints from various departments and agencies that the Institute continues to fall short of criteria set out by them for the functioning of such para-medical institutes in Kashmir valley.
Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir (DHSK) and Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) have already held that Classic Para-Medical Training Institute, Hyderpora cannot function since it is full of deficiencies. DHSK had already ordered for the closure of the para-medical institute and same observations have been made by SMC.
In the order dated July 31, 2013, Additional District Judge, Srinagar, RK Wattal has said that alternate provision should be made for the training current batch of students or pending disposal of suit whichever is earlier on the undertaking of plaintiffs (owners of Classic Para-Medical Training Institute) that they will take all steps to ensure the safety of the public and local residents and will not violate any municipal law and will make provision for safe removal and disposal of bio-chemical wastes if at all generated in the Institute.
"This order shall also not be deemed to clothe the plaintiffs till powers to make fresh admissions of the students in the institution dehors the rules/regulations which if so shall be at their own risk and cost. This order shall also not come in the way of any other order which may be carried by defendants in exercise/observance of functions or instructions in pursuance of the directions of any PIL which might have been given by the Hon'ble High Court to the municipality/defendant on the subject matter," wrote the Additional District Judge, Srinagar in the order.
The Additional District Judge, Srinagar has also ordered the plaintiffs to file objection as to why the local residents and the municipality be also not made a party in the suit for its effective disposal.
It would be in place to mention here that it took the officials of Health and Medical Education and Health departments around 10 years to wake up from the slumber and order for the closure of this Para-Medical Training Institute that was operating in contravention of the prescribed norms and rules on Baramulla-Srinagar-Jammu highway.
Deputy Director (Headquarters) at the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) Kashmir issued order number DHSK/SMF/Classic/2381-83 on July 10, 2013 asking for the closure of Classic Para-Medical Training Centre at Gulberg Colony, Hyderpora, Srinagar. The Para-Medical Training Centre had been operating since 2004 without any permission and no such action so far was taken against the proprietors of the institute. The Institute is yet to get No Objection Certificate (NOC) from concerned departments to function.
Issuing the order for closure, Deputy Director (Headquarters), DHS Kashmir wrote that his office has received a complaint with regard to allowing the institute to function without having any proper permission to run the said institute and are pressing hard for its closure owing to the fact of being un-registered as on date.
"Now therefore, taking cognizance of the said complaint besides not fulfilling the criteria fixed by the Government for running a para-medical institute, you are hereby directed to stop all the functioning of your para-medical institute henceforth," wrote the Deputy Director Headquarters, DHS Kashmir in his order.
The order for closure was issued after a communication from Health and Medical Education Department asking the Director Health Services, Kashmir to act against Classic Hospital/ Health Sciences if they fail to fulfill the eligibility criteria within 10 days. This communication under communication number ME-GAZ-46/2012 was issued on November 19, 2012 and it was expected that DHS Kashmir would act by November 30, 2012 against Classic Para-Medical Institute.
The area where the Para-Medical Training Centre along with the Classic Hospital is operating is purely residential one, but over the years many commercial establishments have come up there. It would be in place to mention here that Abdul Rashid Khan, a resident of Gulberg Colony, Hyderpora moved successive applications with the different departments while seeking details whether any permission has been granted to the Classic Hospital/Classic Para-Medical Training Institute.
Pertinently, Mukhtara Begum mother of Dr. Javed Ahmad Mir, Proprietor, Classic Hospital/Classic Para-Medical Training Institute moved an application with SMC for construction of single storey house at Gulberg Colony, Hyderpora in 2000.
Mukhtara Begum's application was entertained and instead of raising a residential structure the lady constructed the Al-Rahat MRI Centre that was subsequently named as Classic Hospital, Hyderpora. This was followed by the illegal opening of Classic Para-Medical Training Centre and the same carried its operation for almost 10 years. |
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