GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated Vivekananda Kendra NRL School of Nursing at a programme held at Numaligarh in Golaghat district on Saturday.
Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) which was set up on April 22, 1993 as an offshoot of Assam Accord, set up this School of Nursing under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme with an objective of providing nursing skills to under privileged girl students in the vicinity of Numaligarh Refinery. The School will be operated by VKNRL Nursing School Trust which has been created with trustees from Vivekananda Kendra and Numaligarh Refinery Limited.
It may be noted that the school has been built on a plot of land measuring 10 bighas which has been taken on lease from ASIDC and the entire project cost is Rs. 26 crore. The school of Nursing will be providing General Nursing and Midwifery Course (GNM) with three years duration and a Certification course where diploma will be given by Assam Nurses Midwives’ and Health Visitors Council, Guwahati.
Chief Minister Sonowal said that the VKNRL School of Nursing is a way towards paying tributes to 855 martyrs who sacrificed their lives in Assam Agitation, Named after the great son of the nation Swami Vivekananda, Chief Minister Sonowal said that the school will be an effort to materialise the maxim of Vivekananda, “Service to man is Service to God”. He at the same time advised the students of the School to imbibe human values, empathy and compassion to serve the people.
He also called upon the trustees of VKNRL School of Nursing to render quality and value-based education so that the school becomes an epitome of ‘sustainability with quality’.
Giving an outline of all the health-related schemes of the State government, Sonowal asked the people at large to take benefits of the health schemes like chief minister’s Free Diagnostic services, Atal Amrit Abhiyan etc. He also stated that for the people hailing from the tea garden areas, apart from free medicines, 80 mobile medical units have been pushed into service by the government.