Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
Tiruvarur: Admissions to Tiruvarur Government Medical College will start from the coming academic year, according to Sandeep Saxena, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation.

Along with Collector M. Chandrasekaran, he inspected the construction work for the college at the Collectorate complex here on Thursday. Mr. Saxena told presspersons that construction of a 300-bed hospital was going on at a cost of Rs. 26.13 crore. This and other construction work for outpatient ward at a cost of Rs. 6.50 crore, central laboratory at a cost of Rs. 2.30 crore, and another 200-bed hospital at a cost of Rs. 6. 88 crore would be completed before June 2009.

Hostels for students, college administrative building and library would also be constructed shortly. Approach roads were being laid at a cost of Rs. 5 crore.

The Rs. 92.87-crore-college is coming up on 40 acres of land and the work has been divided into two phases. While hospital, blood bank, laboratory and sterilisation units are constructed in the first phase, college building, hostel buildings and lecturers’ quarters will come up in the second phase.

“Tiruvarur is becoming a seat of learning with a medical college, an engineering college and a central university,” Chandrasekaran told The Hindu.

The medical college will be a boon to people in this backward district and adjacent Nagapattinam district who are now dependent on Thanjavur Medical College.

Construction work for the medical college started after bhoomi puja was performed by Dairy Development Minister U. Mathivanan in December last. Foundation stone was laid by Local Administration Minister M. K. Stalin.