In a strong response to Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan’s remarks about the Centre’s failure to allocate government medical colleges to the state, Health Minister T Harish Rao said it would be a great help to the people of Telangana if the Raj Bhavan reoriented its focus and pressed the union government to fulfill promises of establishing a tribal university and a rail coach factory as promised in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014.
Harish Rao stated in a series of tweets on Sunday that Telangana was treated unfairly in the sanctioning of medical colleges, despite repeated requests from the State government to the Centre.
“Of 157 medical colleges approved by Centre, Telangana got none. The union government discriminated and deceived Telangana in all three phases of allotment of colleges,” he said.
Harish Rao questioned who was misleading the people in response to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement that Telangana was not allotted medical colleges because the State government proposed districts that already had medical colleges.
“What is worse is union Ministers’ contrasting statements on medical colleges. One said Telangana didn’t make any request, another said government wanted colleges in Khammam and Karimnagar. By stating that the Centre didn’t give a nod, because private colleges are already set up, who is misleading people?” he asked.
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The Health Minister stated that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao established 12 medical colleges in Telangana using state funds. He stated that the medical colleges were allotted in tune with the vision of the Chief Minister to set up one medical college per each district.
“Telangana tops in the country with 19 MBBS seats per one lakh population. Instead of hurling abuses, the Centre and the Governor should appreciate the State government for opening eight medical colleges in a single day,” he said.
Harish Rao wondered why no one spoke out about the injustices meted out to Telangana and why no one would find fault with the Centre in the interest of the state. He questioned the union government for sanctioning 52 percent of the estimated funds to AIIMS in Gujarat while Telangana received only 11.4 percent, despite the fact that both projects were sanctioned in 2018.
“Instead of giving funds to Bibinagar AIIMS, which is supposed to be on par with Delhi AIIMS, the union Minister makes false claims blaming the State government,” he said in another tweet. Telangana received only Rs 156 crore of Rs 1,365 crore proposed for Bibinagar AIIMS.
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