Hyderabad: Former minister T Harish Rao said alleged pathetic conditions in govt medical college at Maheshwaram demanded the govt to shift the college to fully equipped govt or rented building close to Vanasthalipuram or LB Nagar TIMS. He asked the Ranga Reddy district collector and Director of Medical Education (DME) to give the written assurance to the students personally.
Speaking at a dharna programme along with the students and former minister Sabita Indra Reddy at medical college, Harish Rao said the conditions in the medical college worse than a cattle shed and the govt has not been paying the bills for the past 26 months including electricity, water, rent. The govt must clear the pending rent and the water and electricity dues so that the building is maintained in the meantime,” he said.
The Chief Minister and Health Minister Damodar Rajanarsimha must answer how a government medical college has been run without a single clearance, among snakes and pigs, Harish Rao said. “Until the shift, provide bus facility, drinking water and washrooms at once, and allow buses and students’ own vehicles right up to the college premises. Even a small private school is asked for fire safety, NOC and OC before it opens.
Because it is close to Hyderabad, students from Telangana and from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Kerala chose this college.
He said the principal of the govt medical college wrote multiple letters on various issues such as garbage, scrap, dogs, monkeys and snakes menace on the college campus, but the govt has not responded and taken no action. Had they known what was waiting for them here, not one of them would have chosen it. The ex-minister, who spoke to district collector Narayana Reddy and DME Vani Devi from the college on phone asked immediate shifting of the college to near LB Nagar TIMS.