Thursday, December 10, 2009

Kalahandias angry over shift

Tathya.in. Dec 10, 2009
Bhawanipatna:10/December/2009


Odisha Government is playing politics over location of ESIC medical college in the state, feel aggrieved intelgentsia of Kalahandi.

Local people along with the MPs had also written letters to the Chief Minister to establish ESIC medical college in Rourkela, said Digambara Patra, leading NRO.

Keeping the public sentiment in Kalahandi for Government medical college and ongoing protest in Rourkela for ESIC medical college, Department of Labour and Employment Government of Odisha has earlier requested the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment to establish second medical college in Rourkela.

And the Government promised a Dental and Nursing College in Kalahandi

Kalahandi was already betrayed by Odisha Government for the Central University of Orissa, alleged Madhusmita Panda.

Ms.Panda alleged that time and again Kalahandi has been let down.

Looking at the charged atmosphere and public demand for a Government medical college in Kalahandi, Department of Labour and Employment has reportedly requested for ESIC dental and nursing college in Kalahandi district

Union Ministry of Labour and Employment is establishing two ESIC medical colleges in Karnataka, one being in the home constituency of concern union minister.

Why another medical college cannot be established in Odisha?, asks Judhistir Patra.

However, Kalahandi has been at the receiving end since it joined Odisha state in 1947-48.

The region is being neglected and ignored continuously despite it is being located in the centre of South Western Odisha, the backward pocket of Odisha and India in general, lamented he

Every year hundreds of people are dying due to lack of proper health faculties and human resources in health in this pocket.

The present change of mind by Odisha Government to go for Dental and Nursing College at Rourkela has exposed the mindset of the State Government, said Sanjib Kumar Karmee.

All of them have demanded that both Dental and Nursing College are to be established at Kalahandi, so that years of neglect can be eradicated.

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