Rourkelacity.com: CM favorable towards ESIC Medical College in Rourkela
March 13th, 2010
Following is an excerpt from http://www.rourkelacity.com/top-news/naveen-patnaik-assured-and-indicates-green-signal-for-esic-medical-college-at-rourkela/.
Today under the leadership of Dr. Prafulla Majhi ( MLA , Talsara Constituency, Sundargarh ) about 6 MLAs from Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar met the Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik and appraised him about the discontent among the civil society and people at Rourkela and Sundargarh on the on going issue of locating the ESIC Medical College. After giving a calm hearing to the MLAs , Naveen Patnaik said, being ESIC Medical College is a central Govt. project, the State Govt. doesn’t have any problem if the ESIC Corporation decides this to be at Rourkela. The state will facilitate accordingly and allocate the land. He further assured about checking the status of the project and do his best for Rourkela and its people. At the same time 20 representatives of people from the above districts, also handed over a memorandum for setting up ESIC Medical College and Hospital at Rourkela to the Chief Minister which he gladly accepted.
I hope this solves all the technical issues and the ESIC hospital and medical college is quickly established in Rourkela.
Assuming the above happens Rourkela would have a very good momentum towards becoming a Tier II city in India. Some of the other things that are happening in parallel are: (i) Faster progress with respect to BPUT (ii) Good progress on Hi-Tech Medical college (iii) Proposal for a metropolitan university in Rourkela and much more. In terms of knowledge infrastructure Rourkela would then have:
- One institute of National importance: NIT
- Two Universities: BPUT and Metropolitan University
- Two medical Colleges: Hi-Tech and ESI
- Two existing engineering colleges (Padmanava and Purushottam) and one more in pipeline (Rourkela Institute of Technology)
- Good management institutes in RIMS Rourkela and IIPM Kansbahal.
I hope now Rourkela will have the momentum and its people will take their own initiatives so that steps such as the ones we earlier mentioned in https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3480 will be taken and Rourkela will march towards becoming a Tier II city of India.
Among people driven initiatives the first one to be taken is to push SAIL to create a medical college and an engineering college in Rourkela and approaching top institutions in Odisha and India to open a campus in Rourkela.
Entry Filed under: ESI Medical College,ESI Medical Colleges,Rourkela-Rajgangpur area (2)
5 Writeup
1. Prashant K Sahoo | March 13th, 2010 at 9:19 am
I agree and the momentum has just started. Rourkela can be developed as a city like PUNE in Maharashtra. If little more infrastrtucture is developed , no doubt it will be a great city .
There is alos article which talks about an urgent need of Hockey Academy or a sports university emphasizing on hockey at Greater Rourkela Area. Check this out.
http://www.rourkelacity.com/sports/mecca-of-hockey-forbidden-a-berth-in-national-team/
This will keep Odisha’s participation in Olympic going, the only sports where Odisha has earned name and fame.
2. Dillip Kumar Mohanty | March 14th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Congress has taken the issue of converting IGH into a medical college and hospital
3. PRABHAT KU. PUROHIT | March 15th, 2010 at 12:14 am
All visionaries of prosperous odisha,
I would like to request please please……………….
Come forward ………….Establish ESIC medical college in RKL….
Bake the regional disparity………….
This time will not come…….We know the conditions of medical college of state govt ,don’t let go…………Otherwise we will not get a good medical college in western odisha…………We know the situation of medical college to be coming in Bolangir ,VSS medical is just standing as a old man waiting to die..PLEASE
PRABHAT KUMAR PUROHIT
FINAL YEAR
VSSUT
4. Prashant K Sahoo | March 15th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Shri Prabhat Mahasaya,
ESIC Medical College will be in Rourkela only. Don’t worry about that. What need to be worried is , MKCG and VSS medical college need to be funded sufficiently and on time.
If civil society at Sambalpur demonstrate a consistent effort on this kind of issues and drive the local leaders like MLA and MPs ( Exactly what is now happening in case of Rourkela and Sundergarh for various developmental activities , take care of ESIC ) then I am sure development will reach everywhere. Our so called leaders of Odisha need constant push without which they only go and relax in their Banglow in Bhubaneshwar. At the same time, instead of making a case based approach, the civil society must routinely monitor every proposed project of Govt. of Odisha and pro-actively work in proposing various ideas to the Govt.
Lastly, lets extend our time and energy for this whenever required or take a lead even if it is very small. In the long run it will bring a big change.
5. prabhudutta sathpathy | March 25th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
sir,
i am not from rkl i am from bhubaneswar……
but i am a full supporter of esic at rourkela
because there are so many good friends of mine from rourkela and they are always talking about the esic at rourkela,we ve more that 7+ medical college and hospital at bhubaneswar…so esic should be in the second largest metro of orissa
bput also should start its function from rourkela,for which the pvt colege will do their second campus in rourkela region and students of bhubaneswar can also go to the outside of bhubaneswar for engg\mba etc and can learn much more knowledge about dunyadari
oviuosly gharu dura re rahile bahut jinsa sikhibaku mile ,jauta ki ame bbsr pila chahinle madhya jai paru nahun…..rourkela 2 nd metro hei sethare sabu subhida sujoga jogebaku mun apanaku anurodh karuchi kichi steps neba paiin….