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| Forget timely construction of AIIMS in Jammu as even utility work incomplete for years | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 9: Even as some four years ago, New Delhi had promised establishment of the much-needed All India Institute of Medical in Jammu, till now even the utility works related to the project have not been completed yet.
While the Jammu and Kashmir government recently said the work on the AIIMS buildings would start from February 2020, official sources said the “ground work” is yet to be completed. The ambitious project is scheduled to come up at Vijaypur in Samba district.
Official sources said in the last over a year, the work on the construction of the double lane road to the project site has not been completed. The sources said it has been conveyed to the Health and Medical Education Department on December 25 that till now mere fifty percent of the double-laning work of the approach road to the site has been completed and that it would take around six months more to complete the pending portion of work.
As with regard to the work on the power Receiving Station for the project, the sources said the Power Development Department told the Health and Medical Education Department that the work on construction of Receiving Station would take at least four more months to complete. Sources said while 12 KM transmission line has been laid, the remaining work would to make the Receiving Station fully operational would take around four to five months more. It is pertinent mention that for the last over seven decades, the Jammu region has been craving for a super specialty hospital.
Though Kashmir is blessed with the Super Speciality hospital –the SK Institute of Medical Sciences Soura since 1980s, successive regimes had not bothered to provide such level of facility in Jammu region though a so called Super Speciality Hospital was established in Jammu a few years ago but shortage of staff and lack of proper medicare facilities is still plaguing this health institution.
It was only the government in New Delhi under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which decided to establish AIIMS and a full fledged Medicity in Jammu region.
“But even though Modi government is keen in the establishment of state-of-the- art facilities in Jammu, the state government has been slow on the ground work,” said a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
A senior official in the Health and Medical Education Department confirmed to the Early Times that the meeting to review the work on utilities was held on Christmas Day. He however said the construction work on the hospital building would be started in February and that there would be no delay in execution of the project. |
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