‘We will ensure a Viksit Jammu Kashmir’: PM Modi inaugurates AIIMS Jammu, other projects

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Jammu. PM Modi also handed over appointment orders to around 1,500 new government recruits of Jammu and Kashmir.

During the event, the prime minister informed that 50 new degree colleges have opened up in Jammu and Kashmir. He added that the number of medical colleges in Jammu and Kashmir has risen to 12 today from four in 2014, there are over 1,300 MBBS seats as opposed to 500 in 2014, and more than 650 PG medical seats as opposed to none in 2014.

He also informed about the establishment of 45 nursing and paramedic colleges in the last four years. Two AIIMS are coming up in Jammu and Kashmir out of which AIIMS in Vijaypur, Samba was inaugurated today.

Established at a cost of over 1,660 crore and built in an area spanning over 227 acres, the hospital is equipped with facilities such as 720 beds, medical college with 125 seats, nursing college with 60 seats, AYUSH block with 30 beds, residential accommodation for faculty and staff, hostel accommodation for UG and PG students, among others.

Listing the educational infrastructure projects in Jammu, the PM emphasized that the advancement of education and skill development sectors on such a scale was a distant reality ten years ago. “But, this is new India”, he said, highlighting that the government indulges in maximum expenditure for the modern education of the present and future generations.

Through the video conferencing at Jammu, the prime minister inaugurated the permanent campus of IIT Bhilai, IIT Tirupati, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM) Kurnool; academic and residential complex in IIT Patna and IIT Ropar; two permanent campuses of Central Sanskrit University at Devprayag (Uttarakhand) and Agartala (Tripura). He also inaugurated the permanent campuses of IIM Visakhapatnam, IIM Jammu and IIM Bodh Gaya along with the Indian Institute of Skills (IIS).