The Union Finance Ministry has conveyed its “in principle approval” for the establishment of All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Telangana.
The approval was subject to certain conditions, one of them being identification and securing encumbrance free land for setting up the institute. In a communication addressed to the State government, Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary Sunil Sharma recalled that the Centre had asked the State government to identify three or four locations for setting up the new AIIMS. The State government had identified a location at Bibinagar and communicated the same to the Centre.
The Union Health Ministry has accordingly constituted a team of senior officials of the Central government for inspection of the site proposed by the State government for setting up the prestigious institution. The team comprises Mr. Sunil Sharma, AIIMS Delhi medical superintendent D.K. Sharma, PMSSY director Sachin Mittal, AIIMS Rae Bareli superintending engineer G.P. Srivastava and Union Ministry’s senior architect Mukesh Bajpai.
The development follows a letter addressed by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to the Union Health Ministry asking it to expedite the process of setting up AIIMS in the State in line with the assurance given in the AP Reorganisation Act 2014. Mr. Sharma said, in his letter, that the Central team would visit the site soon to assess its suitability for establishment of AIIMS. The details of the visit would be intimated to the State government as and when finalised.
