Telangana: Uttam slams BJP, BRS govts over delay in AIIMS Bibinagar completion

Hyderabad: Senior Telangana Congress member Uttam Kumar Reddy took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) over the delay in the construction of AIIMS hospital in Bibinagar.
Reddy expressed dismay over the reply given by Union minister of health Dr Mansukh Mandviya to a question regarding AIIMS Bibinagar raised by him in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The Congress MP said that the statistics provided by the Union minister clearly show that there has been no progress in the establishment of AIIMS Bibinagar in the last four years.
“The proposed hospital was among 22 new AIIMS across India that had been sanctioned under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). While 6 AIIMS at Oddisha, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand are fully functional,” The MP said.
“Remaining 16 AIIMS including AIIMS Bibinagar are at various stages of operationalization. However, he said that the Centre neither released allocated funds nor filled sanctioned vacancies to complete the AIIMS Bibinagar.” he stressed.
“AIIMS Bibinagar was approved by the Union Cabinet on December 17 2018 and an amount of Rs. 1,028 was sanctioned for the project. Out of the total amount, so far, only Rs. 31.71 has been released. Further, the deadline for the completion of the project, which was set as September 2022 in 2019 was first extended to January 2025 in June 2022 and now the Centre is silent on the deadline,” Reddy said.
The Congress leader further said that various questions about the establishment of the AIIMS across the country, including the Bibinagar AIIMS, were raised in the Parliament 10 times between November 29 2019 till today. He said that the replies given by the Centre regarding AIIMS Bibinagar indicate that it is not interested in completing the project hence it was deliberately delaying it.