Hyderabad: BRS leader and former minister T Harish Rao on Wednesday demanded that the govt immediately relocate the Maheshwaram govt medical college to a fully equipped govt or rented building near Vanasthalipuram or LB Nagar TIMS, citing alleged appalling conditions on the campus.
Because of its proximity to Hyderabad, students from Telangana and from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Kerala opted for this college.
Participating in a dharna with the students and former minister Sabita Indra Reddy at the medical college, Harish Rao alleged that conditions on the medical college campus were “worse than those in a cattle shed” and claimed that the govt had failed to clear electricity, water and rent bills for the past 26 months. He said the principal of the govt medical college wrote multiple letters flagging issues like garbage accumulation, scrap material and the menace of dogs, monkeys and snakes on the college campus, but no action has been taken. “Had they known what awaiting them here, not one of them would have chosen this college,” Harish Rao said. The chief minister and health minister Damodar Rajanarasimha must answer how a govt medical college has been run without a single clearance, Harish Rao said.
The former minister spoke to district collector Narayana Reddy and DME Vani Devi from the college on the phone and reiterated his demand for immediate shifting of the college to a facility near LB Nagar TIMS. Even a small private school is asked for fire safety, NOC and OC before it opens.