Organisation questions govt on establishment of Shillong Medical College as a private institute
SHILLONG: An organisation called the Hynniewtrep People’s Federation (HPF) has asked the Meghalaya government to clarify on its move of resorting to two different yardsticks for setting up of the medical colleges in Shillong and Tura.
“The medical college proposed at Tura is being funded by the Government. But the medical college in Shillong is coming up under the Public Private Partnership mode,” HPF president Tynshain Lapang said on Monday, while informing that they had inspected the project site and wer surprised to find that the construction work was yet to take off.
“We are of the view that the medical college in Shillong should also be funded by the government. We have doubts on whether the project under the PPP mode will see the light of the day as has been the case with many other projects where the government had signed MoUs with private partners,” he said.
The HPF suspected that there was a ‘hidden agenda’ behind the two different decisions taken by the government.
Lapang claimed that there will be vast donations made for getting admission into the MBBS courses for the Shillong Medical College as it would be owned by a private company.
Lapang further asked the State government to make public the content of the agreement signed by the government with the Kolkata-based KPC Group and also to convene a public hearing on whether the Shillong medical College should be under the PPP mode or not.
