‘Govt to allow running medical college at Gaighat’

Gaighat, Feb 10: Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Ashok Kumar Rai, has said government was ready to permit running of medical college at Gaighat of Triyuga municipality in Udayapur district.

At a programme organized here today, Minister Rai shared that government had attached high priority on education and health sectors. The federal government is committed to facilitating the launch of medical college at Gaighat.

The local people had been demanding operation of medical college for long.

“The stakeholders and civic leaders had submitted memorandums to the previous governments, demanding a medical college here. Present government is positive to this,” he stressed.

According to him, government was planning to issue permission for establishing six medical colleges across the country. He vowed that after local government provides proper land for it, federal government would permit for the establishment.

On the occasion, Mayor Basanta Kumar Basnet also informed that local level was preparing for management of necessary land for medical infrastructure. The land would be determined within a month for initiating detailed project report (DPR), he vowed.

Deputy Mayor Maheshwori Rai informed that once the medical college is established, students from Khotang, Okhaldhunga, Solukhumbu, Udayapur and Bhojpur districts and vicinity would be benefitted. It would help control capital flight as well, she reminded.