The Siddhartha Medical College in Vijayawada is in for a major facelift. The State Government has accorded administrative sanction for works worth close to Rs. 30 crore for construction of new buildings and facilities in the college.
Accordingly, sanction has been given for construction of senior resident hostel for boy students with an estimated Rs. 5.95 crore and another Rs. 15.56 crore for the construction of UG girls hostel with capacity to accommodate 300 students. Works for providing internal roads and drains would be taken up in the medical college with an estimated Rs. 3.81 crore while an additional Rs. 3.5 crore had been sanctioned for internal roads and drains in the new Government general hospital in Vijayawada.
The Government had also sanctioned Rs. 6.22 crore for construction of additional floor of A&B blocks, including modification of LDR concept and providing gas pipeline system and other works in the Government general hospital at Kurnool.
The sanction comes in the light of a representation made by the Director of Medical Education seeking permission of the State Government for construction of new buildings and developing other facilities in these institutions.
