AP: Demand to rollback of the decision to privatise the new medical colleges
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2024-09-18 18:50 GMT
Vijayawada: Former minister Vidadala Rajini has condemned the Telugu Desam alliance government’s decision on the privatisation of newly established medical colleges, calling it a “big scam” involving large-scale corruption and conspiracy.
She demanded an immediate rollback of the decision to privatise the new medical colleges, urging the government not to destroy the aspirations of poor students.
Speaking to the media in Guntur on Wednesday, the former minister pointed out that the previous government, under former chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, had worked to make medical education accessible to poor students by launching 17 medical colleges at once, with an investment of approximately Rs 8,500 crore, aiming to enhance medical education and super speciality medical services in the state. She said the TD government was conspiring to privatise these medical colleges under the guise of ‘PPPPs (Public-Private, People’s partnetships)’, describing this as a major scam.
She said that if Jagan Mohan Reddy had remained in power, five more colleges would have been opened in 2024-25 and the rest would have been ready by 2025-26.
Rajini mentioned that the newly opened medical colleges provided 750 MBBS seats last year but this year, only 50 seats were available at Paderu college.
She criticised the government’s refusal to accept 50 seats offered by the National Medical Commission (NMC) for Pulivendula college and questioned why there was so much hatred towards Pulivendula. She condemned the government's actions, stating that political vendetta was not justified.