Present Activities : Western Orissa Development Council

M/s. Selvam Educational and Charitable Trust, Vadakangulam (Tamil Nadu) has been selected for establishment of Medical College and Hospital at Jaring a place 15 Kms. from district Hqs of Kalahandi district. The construction of Medical College is at its culminating point.

Government in Health and Family Welfare Department had issued the essentiality certificate during 2008 in favour of this Trust for establishment of Medical College. However, this has not been renewed so far. After leasing out 25 acres of government land free of premium in favour of the Trust construction work has been going on. Till date, 300 (Three hundred) bedded hospital building is completed already. 3 (Three) O.T., One major and two minors are also ready. 7 (Seven) bedded ICU and Causality outdoor are also ready for use. Although College building is completed, department-wise partition is in the pipeline. Hostel building for both male and female inmates are in progress and likely to be completed by August 2009. Another 3 (Three) storied building is in progress to accommodate residential doctors and faculty members. 9 (Nine) staff quarters are already constructed in order to accommodate to both doctors and staff nurse. One, two storied building having 16 rooms is already purchased at Bhawanipatna to accommodate Medical staff.

Considering the progress of works and on the recommendation of Collector, Kalahandi 7 installments of the grant amounting to Rs. 9.00 crores are already released towards reimbursement of the cost of construction in favour of the Trust.

The Trust has already obtained affiliation from Sambalpur University. However, the MCI team visited the College during May 2008, but the out come of the visit was not satisfactory. As a result, the trust is undergoing hard times both for functioning of Medical College and recruitment for the faculty members. In order to satisfy M.C.I. team at the time of their next visit due in September 2009 the trust is leaving no stone unturned. At present, there has been special drive for recruitment of faculty members as well as installation of Medical equipment in different departments.

Medical College at Bolangir :-

As per the recommendation of the High Level Committee, M/s. GSL Trust, Rajahmundary (A.P.) was selected for establishment of the Medical College at Bolangir & at Rourkela and M.O.U. was signed on 31.12.2003. Since this Trust did not commence the work despite repeated persuasions, the M.O.U. was cancelled in December 2004.

The High Level Committee again selected M/s. Jassar Dental Medical Education Health Foundation, Modi Nagar (U.P.) and M.O.U. was signed in 17.08.2005 for setting up of both the Medical Colleges of Bolangir and Rourkela. The Party also did not commence the work and as such the M.O.U. was to be abrogated in April 2006.
The Government decided that fresh selection process should be taken up for setting up of the Medical Colleges both at Bolangir and Rourkela. As such advertisement was issued inviting offers from interested private parties in May 2006 and the High Level Committee recommended to select Sri Balaji Educational and Charitable Public Trust, Pondicherry to set up the Medical College at Bolangir. The M.O.U. in this regard has been signed between the Council and the above Trust on 06.10.2006. The Trust has also furnished a performance Bank Guarantee of Rs. 1.00 crore in support of the M.O.U. between the Trust and W.O.D.C.

On persuasion to start the work at the selected site pending sanction of the lease of land, the Chairman of Sri Balaji Trust declined to start the work till the lease of land was sanctioned and the lease agreement executed. In the mean time although the lease of 25 acres of land at Bolangir has been sanctioned by the Government the Trust didn’t take any step towards commencement of the work.

On the other hand the party took the plea of refusal to pay Rs. 64.62 lakhs towards the cost of stamp duty and Rs. 1.47 lakhs every year towards rent for the lease. The Trust requested to waive ground rent levied for 25 acres of government land. He also requested for further allotment of 15 acres of land adjacent to the selection of the site and enhancement of the grant from Rs. 10.00 crores to Rs. 20.00 crores. These demands were not tenable for WODC as it was not a part of the MOU. Subsequently, vide letter No.

1943/WODC Dt. 06.08.2008, the MOU Dt. 06.10.2006 between Sri Balaji Educational and Charitable Public Trust, Pondicherry and WODC was cancelled because of non commencement of project work by the Trust at the selected site at Bolangir. Resultantly, fresh advertisements were floated in both Oriya and English News paper in inviting expressions of interest from fresh party by 30-11-2008. Accordingly, 6 (six) different parties have shown interest for setting up of Medical College through their personal drive and initiative. The High Level Committee was conveyed on 29-12-2008 under the chairmanship of Development Commissioner to select a new party for the purpose. But the High Level Committee decided to seek legal opinion either from an advocate or from Law Department if, whether there is any legal impediment for selection of a private sponsor. This has been more due to the Writ Petition No. 13022/2008 field by Sri Balaji Educational and Charitable Public Trust, Pondicherry before the Hon’ble High Court, Orissa in response to the invocation of Bank Guarantee of Rs. 1.00 crore by WODC against the Trust.

Consequent upon P&C Department letter No. 8609 Dt.04.06.2008 incorporating the decision of the state government to entrust Vigyan Bharati Charitable Trust, Bhubaneswar to set up 100 (One hundred) capacity intake Medical College and a teaching hospital at Rourkela, steps were ahead for providing 25 acres of government land free of premium to the party mentioned above. Accordingly, advance land possession of 25 acres comprising 15.090 of RGH land, 4.910 of govt. land adjacent to RGH land in RTU No. 42 and 5 acres in RTU No. 4 (Chhend) were handed over possession by Tahasildar, Rourkela to Vigyan Bharati Charitable Trust on 06.04.2009 for construction of Medical College and Hospital in Rourkela. WODC would reimburse Rs. 10.00 crores in a phased manner favour of the trust towards creation of infrastructure satisfactorily and the 1st instalment would begin only after completion of minimum construction work worth of Rs. 5.00 crores. The grant will be released maximum upto 25% of the total expenditure incurred towards creation of immovable infrastructure as per recommendation of Assessment Committee of WODC. As such the work is now in progress.