The government has directed the construction company to expedite the work on classrooms and hostel buildings of MKCG Medical College and Hospital here by July-end to accommodate the additional MBBS students, who will take admission this year.
The medical college will take an additional 100 students this year as the Medical Council of India has accorded permission to increase the MBBS seats from 150 to 250. The classes are likely to start from September.
Chief Engineer, public works (buildings) Satya Ranjan Sethi has instructed the company to speed up the work while reviewing its progress on the medical college campus.
Construction for 12 multi-storey buildings is going on with an estimated cost of Rs 216 crore, said an official.
A well-known construction company was awarded to contract on January 8, 2014, after an agreement to this effect was inked.
The buildings include eight classrooms, a four-storey lecturer hall, a seven-storey laboratory complex, a 1,500-seated double-storey auditorium, a six-storey 300-bed boys hostel for undergraduate students and a 100-bed hostel for postgraduate students, he said.
The other structures are two 200-bed hostels for undergraduate girl students and a 100-bed hostel for postgraduate girl students, a four-storey 300-bed hostel for nursing students, a nursing school building and a superspecialty building, said Executive Engineer, public works (Berhampur) Binod Padhy.
Principal of the medical college AK Dandapat said, "We expect the buildings to be completed before the admission of the new students."
Besides the increase of 100 MBBS seats, the medical college has also got approval for starting DM (Cardiology), a superspecialty course, from this academic year with two seats, said the principal.
