CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has announced that the AIIMS Like hospital that the Centre is planning to allot to each State would come up in Telangana, at Nizamabad. He made the announcement while touring Nizamabad yesterday. After a protracted debate, Telangana MPs could wrest a promise from Union Health Minister Dr. Harsha Vardhan that even Telangana would be considered for an AIIMS like institution. Initially, the Centre excluded Telangana from the list and wrote to almost every State to identify land and convey the details to Centre so that Centre can start planning an AIIMS like institute in each State.The Modi Government plans to complete establishing an AIIMS like hospital in every State, except the North-Eastern States, in India in next ...

The centre thinks Telangana is the only state in India that doesn’t require an AIIMS like institution! While the Centre granted AIIMS-like institutes to the 4 States of Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, AIIMS-like institutions have already been established in the 6 states of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chatisgarh and Uttarakhand.  The union health ministry  announced it has written to all remaining States, barring the sparsely populated north-eastern states, to identify lands for setting up AIIMS. The catch is that the centre has written to the 11 States Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Punjab and not for Telangana. In effect, Telangana is the only State the Centre has no plans to ...