PM Modi Nearly Inaugurates AIIMS Kalyani In West Bengal Amid Environmental Clearance Controversy | PTI Picture
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday nearly inaugurated the 960-bed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Kalyani in West Bengal’s Nadia district.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose and Union ministers Sarbananda Sonowal, Santanu Thakur, Subhas Sarkar, Nishit Pramanik and John Barla attended the inauguration occasion from the AIIMS campus.
AIIMS Kalyani, the OPD of which has been operational since 2019, is unfold over 179.8 acres of land and at present serves round 2,000 sufferers every day.
The institute has already inducted round 500 MBBS and 200 nursing college students and in addition began postgraduate and para-medical coaching initiatives.
No environmental clearance
By the way, West Bengal Air pollution Management Board (WBPCB) has said that AIIMS Kalyani doesn’t have environmental clearance.
WBPCB chairman Kalyan Rudra had on Saturday mentioned that in response to the rules of the Ministry of Setting, Forest and Local weather Change (MoEFCC), any undertaking which is bigger than 20,000 sq. metres requires an setting clearance (EC).
AIIMS Kalyani has been arrange on an space bigger than 20,000 sq. metres.
”The authorities of the AIIMS Kalyani had utilized for environmental clearance on October 6, 2022. Its building began earlier than they obtained the clearance. So, the undertaking is below the violation class,” he had advised reporters on the day past.
Penalty of over Rs 15 crore
Following the MoEFCC tips, the WBPCB imposed an environmental injury value and a penalty of over Rs 15 crore, Rudra added.
AIIMS Kalyani has, nevertheless, utilized for an exemption contending that it was a healthcare facility and doesn’t require an environmental clearance, he mentioned.
However the state authorities has no authority to exempt the quantity, Rudra mentioned.
”The WBPCB filed a case earlier than ACJM’s court docket in Kalyani on this connection,” he mentioned.