ESIC Rourkela MC demand shrill

Tathya.in, Sept 2, 2009
Rourkela:2/September/2009

Demand for the proposed ESIC Medical College to be set up in Rourkela is on high pitch.

More and more people from various walks of life pressing for the institution and have asked the state government to allocate 32 acres of land for the purpose.

Leading NRO Sandip Dasverma has thrown his hat on ESIC Medical College Rourkela ring.

Dasverma has sent e-mail to all the activists including Agami Orissa to take up the issue.

Natawar Lath, leading chartered accountant has taken the lead in mobilizing opinion for ESIC Medical College at Rourkela

He in a letter to the Chief Minister has laudedhis earlier attempt in pursuing an ESIC medical college in Balangir.

People from various walks of life are flooding e-mails to the Chief Minister's Office.

As ESIC did not agree to it as it does not have enough ESIC insured persons in the Balangir area, Lath observed that CM is pursuing other ways of having a medical college in Balangir.

Coming back to ESIC medical college, Rourkela is the second largest metropolitan area of Orissa.

Unfortunately, it is also the largest metropolitan area of its size in the country which does not have a medical college, lamented Lath.

On the other hand Rourkela is the current industrial hub of Orissa and has a significant number of ESIC insured persons.

This is evident from the fact that the only ESIC model hospital in Orissa is in Rourkela.

Moreover, another ESIC hospital is in nearby Kansbahal and an ESIC annex is in nearby Rajgangpur.

Preeti Mohanty a leading intellectual has also lamented for lack of development of Rourkela, though the steel city is supporting the BJD religiously.

The government still continues its apathies and step motherly treatment towards Rourkela, lamented Ms.Mohanty.

Apart from NIT (established long ago) not a single institute of national or even state wide repute has come up here.

BPUT seems a far cry as it is still functioning from Bhubaneswar.

All new institutes like IIIT, NISER and private medical colleges are opening up in BBSR/CTC/Puri area rued she.

In the meantime Orissa Unit of the CITU has urged the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) authorities at New Delhi to establish a medical college at Rourkela.

A delegation of CITU leaders led by its state unit general secretary Mr Bishnu Mohanty met the Director, ESIC, S Chaturvedi at New Delhi recently and pleaded for establishment of an ESIC Medical College stating that over 50 per cent of the total revenue was generated from Rourkela.

A large number of small and medium industries were located in Western Orissa and thousands of workers were contributing and dependent on ESIC, they said.

According to Mr Mohanty, the ESIC director had agreed to the proposal and said if the state government provided 32 acre his organisation would spent about Rs 500 crores for the

Ashis Ranjan Pal, technocrat has also demanded ESIC Medical College at Rourkela.

List is growing and intelligentsias are feeling that they are let down by the Government so far setting up institutions of higher learning at Rourkela.

Ashish Rout has also demanded ESIC Medical College to be established at Rourkela.

Echoing his demand, Prasant Mahapatra also also sent a missive to the Chief Minister in this regard.

Similarly Mihir Kumar Swain has also demanded the facility at Rourkela and has e-mailed to Naveen Patnaik.

Now CMO is in quandary over the matter as the demand is going on to a high pitch mode.