Pramod Madhwaraj, MLA, said on Tuesday that he was working to get a government medical college for the Udupi Assembly constituency rather than the postgraduate (PG) centre of Mangalore University. Speaking to presspersons here, Mr. Madhwaraj said that a government medical college would be of more benefit to the people than a PG centre. Already 20 acres of land had been identified at Uppoor village for the medical college.
The State government was expected to announce government medical colleges for six districts including Udupi in the next Budget.
A Police Training Centre would also come up next to the proposed medical college at Uppoor on 14 acres of land, he said.
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On the criticism by the former MLA Raghupati Bhat saying that Mr. Madhwaraj was not getting any new works for Udupi, Mr. Madhwaraj said that Udupi Assembly Constituency had got the highest amount of funds under the Nagorathana Scheme.
“May be Mr. Bhat is oblivious to the development activities in the Constituency. We have done more in the last two years than in the previous eight years,” he said.
Twenty acres of land identified at Uppoor village for the purpose