The names were cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Appointments (ACC), thus paving the way for early start of the institutes at Raipur, Bhubaneshwar, Rishikesh and Jodhpur, besides those in Patna and Bhopal which already have directors.
While A K Mahapatra, a neurosurgeon at AIIMS in Delhi has been appointed the new Director of AIIMS at Bhubaneshwar, Sanjeev Mishra of King George Medical College in Lucknow is the new Director of AIIMS, Jodhpur.
Raj Kumar, a professor of Sanjay Gandhi Government Medical College, Lucknow, is the new director at AIIMS in Rishikesh, while Nitin Nagarkar, a professor at Government Medical College at Chandigarh is the new director of AIIMS at Raipur.
The new appointees have been asked to join within this month, due to the urgency to start these institutes soon. The AIIMS at Patna already has G K Singh as its director and Bhopal AIIMS has Sandeep Kumar.
The government had earlier appointed directors for the four institutes from among the senior faculty in AIIMS in Delhi, but they did not join, forcing the government to start the process of the reappointment.
Government plans to start admissions in these six AIIMS- like Institutes from September this year. The Health Ministry is also putting in place the necessary infrastructure and has also asked states to provide a core group of persons to facilitate the entire process of starting these institutes. (MORE)