Aurangabad, Oct 30:
The Government Medical College''s (GMC) proposal of constructing a theatre complex comprising four lecture halls for students seems to have fallen victim of red-tape since the past one year.
MCI had extended the seats of MBBS from 50 to 200. However, the college lacks the infrastructure to conduct classes of these 200 students. One company agreed to construct the building as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. The PWD completed the process of land measurement for the dedicated building, but the proposal is lying for want of technical and administrative approval, it is learnt.
The process to prepare the estimate of constructing a dedicated building comprising four lecture halls started in February 2019. The Medical Council of India (MCI) fixed the parameters to construct four halls for 200 students of MBBS. Accordingly, Bajaj Company assured of constructing the building having four halls under CSR fund. Since then, all are waiting to get administrative approval. The GMC Dean Dr Kanan Yelikar and deputy dean Dr Bharat Sonawane are pursuing the matter consistently. During a pandemic situation, the proposal of lecture theatre was kept aside, but the college took it up. Dr Sonawane said the correspondence with the company which is doing it as a CSR initiative is underway, and we had mentioned starting the works as soon as the official permission is received.
As per MCI parameters, there should be three lecture halls having the capacity to accommodate 250 students and one hall having a capacity of 350 students. Hence the open land situated in front of the college has been selected for the project. The theatre complex will have a parking bay, lecture halls for students and canteen facilities. Dr Rajan Bindu, Dr Shivaji Sukre, Dr Jyoti Irawane, Dr Abdul Rafe and others have made valuable contributions. The PWD officials Ahmed Qadeer and KMI Syed along with architects inspected the site, conducted measurements so as to prepare the estimate.
Dr Sonawane said that a meeting between GMC and with senior officials was held in Mumbai recently and we had submitted the proposal to them for further action.
The PWD''s estimate will require 1.25 per cent cess and GST. The monetary issue of which office would be paying the above money will be going to emerge. Dr Sonawane said, the efforts are underway to get the charges waived-off seeking approval from the DMER. The dean is pursuing the matter.