Probe ordered into three medical skill centres
Saturday, 02/12/2017
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CHANDIGARH: Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday ordered a “high-level” probe into the functioning of the three skill development centres set up in the government medical colleges at Amritsar, Patiala and Faridkot, after he was informed that these facilities, set up at a cost of Rs 18 crore, are lying idle.
A three-member committee, headed by principal secretary, medical education and research, Sanjay Kumar, has been tasked with conducting a “thorough” inquiry, said an official spokesperson. The others members of the committee are secretary, skill development mission, Bhawna Garg, and director of medical education and research Avnish Kumar.
The probe was necessitated by complaints that the facilities were lying vacant and there were no students, while the private companies to whom prime government land had been provided to run skill development centres are violating their contract conditions. Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) had already invested Rs 6 crore each at the government medical colleges at Patiala, Amritsar and Faridkot for creation of infrastructure, health minister Brahm Mohindra earlier informed the CM at the 36th governing body meet of the PIMS.
