CM Bhagwant Mann besides offered that SGPC, SAD and Dhindsa could get their names written connected instauration chromatic if they were feeling insecure. Tribune photo
Parvesh Sharma
Sangrur, January 1
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann connected Sunday blamed the SGPC, the SAD and erstwhile Union Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa for causing hold successful the commencement of the operation of Government Medical College (GMC) astatine Mastuana Sahib.
He besides hinted astatine moving the GMC to different determination aft getting required 25 acres of land.
“I americium compelled to talk implicit it, arsenic I tried my level champion to lick the problems. But Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, SAD leaders and the SGPC person travel unneurotic to halt america from constructing the GMC. The SGPC has procured a enactment implicit the construction. Had that not been the case, we would person completed the 70 per cent of the construction,” alleged Mann astatine the tract of GMC adjacent Mastuana Sahib College connected the Changal road.
CM Mann besides offered that SGPC, SAD and Dhindsa could get their names written connected instauration chromatic if they were feeling insecure.
“Residents should not beryllium disquieted astir the destiny of GMC arsenic I volition get it constructed. GMC would beryllium constructed successful the surroundings of Sangrur arsenic I volition get onshore from immoderate colony Panchayat. Like different leaders, I bash not privation to drawback the land. But the hold successful the commencement of operation of GMC has exposed the world of SGPC, Dhindsa and SAD leaders,” alleged the CM.
He said that successful full GMC is simply a Rs-460 crore task and it would beryllium constructed successful 25 acres and it would commencement with 330 seats of MBBS successful the archetypal year, and the fig would summation by 130 later.
On May 23, 2022, the registration of the onshore was done nether the sanction of the Director of the Medical Education and Research and the authorities had besides appointed Dr Vishal Chopra arsenic Director-cum-Principal of the projected GMC connected July 1, 2022.
“I person ne'er interfered and successful fact, I besides privation the aboriginal operation of GMC. But it should beryllium constructed arsenic per instrumentality and not successful usurpation of immoderate law,” said Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa.
Mann had laid instauration chromatic of institute connected August 5, but aft a contention implicit the ownership of land, not a ceramic has been laid aft instauration stone. The onshore upon which the authorities wants to conception the GMC is reportedly registered nether the sanction of Gurdwara Sachkhand Angitha Sahib and it is nether the Sant Attar Singh Gursagar Mastuana Trust.
“The SGPC has each authorization and the Punjab Government should commencement connection straight with the SGPC to wide immoderate ineligible hurdles. Only the SGPC tin springiness the support to usage the land, not immoderate different committee,” said Gobind Singh Longowal, ex-president of the SGPC.
Two protests are going connected successful beforehand of DC office, wherever residents are demanding enactment against officers who got the onshore transferred and different protestation is astatine Longowal, wherever residents are demanding the operation of GMC astatine a accelerated pace. Two cases are besides pending successful High Court implicit the ownership of land.
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