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Purvanchal?s growth holds the key to Uttam Pradesh
CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav said here that Uttar Pradesh could not be transformed into Uttam Pradesh without rapid progress of Purvanchal .
Rs 8.82 crore for JE research centre
CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav said here that Uttar Pradesh could not be transformed into Uttam Pradesh without rapid progress of Purvanchal.
The country itself would not emerge as an international power without progress of Uttar Pradesh, he added. Expressing his views at the conference Hall at BRD Medical College after laying the foundation stone of the Japanese Encephalitis (JE) Research Centre, a well-equipped ICCU and two epidemic wards, the chief minister claimed that he would save the recognition of the college in accordance with Medical Council of India (MCI) norms.
Yadav said his government had allocated Rs 8.82 crore for the JE research centre and blamed the Union government for allocating only 4 lakh vials of vaccine to check the outbreak of JE in the region.
Highlighting the progress of the State, the CM said Uttar Pradesh had achieved a growth rate of 5.595 per cent per year, which was beyond the expectations of the Union Government and Planning Commission. That was the reason the Planning Commission had allocated Rs 19,000 crore for the State and expressed hope that by the end of next year, the State would achieve the growth rate of 7 per cent. Yadav said there was a deep-rooted conspiracy to defame the SP Government, which was devoted to uplift of the poor.
The CM admitted that there were hurdles in appointment of qualified professors in medical colleges to meet the shortage of teachers and fulfil the norms set by the MCI.
He said he had constituted a subordinate service commission. In the Cabinet meeting on February 2, he would empower the commission to appoint professors and lecturers at various medical colleges.
Yadav recalled that it was the SP Government which paid compensation to parents of children who died of JE and those who were partially disabled by the disease.
Earlier, senior party leader and MP Mohan Singh said it was the SP Government, which removed uncertainty over the future of medical education in the State.
He said the previous government had constituted committees to run medical colleges, but the State Government took the firm decision that medical education would be under direct control of the State Government.
Singh said Mulayam Singh Yadav Government would implement the recommendation of Tikku Commission in various medical colleges and pave the way for recruitment of the teachers in the colleges which was stopped since 1984.
Earlier, principal of medical college RD Mukhija welcomed the chief minister and president of Junior Doctors Association (JDA) Anupam Aron expressed anguish of the junior doctors that their degree was considered to be illegal due to withdrawal of the recognition of postgraduate degree by the MCI.
