Jammu, December 27: After the lapse of over four years since it was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2015, the civil work on the ambitious All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jammu, will begin in February.
The J&K Government has identified 1,954 kanals of land for Rs 1,661-crore AIIMS project in the Vijaypur area of Samba district which is to be developed under the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP). So far, the Union Government has released Rs 48.33 crore for the AIIMS Jammu.
However, the Prime Minister had laid foundation stone for the project on February 3 this year and the upcoming AIIMS would be a 700-bedded hospital.
The Central Public Works Department (CPWD), executing agency for the AIIMS project in Jammu, has not been able to start tendering process for civil works and it has assured that the process would be initiated soon.
So far, only 50 per cent work on double lane approach road to the AIIMS has been completed while work on the remaining portion is still in progress.
It all came to fore today when the Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education, Atal Dulloo visited the AIIMS Jammu site.During his interaction with the officers concerned present at the site, Dulloo took stock of the present status of works being executed there and said that actual civil works on the Institute would be taken up in February 2020.
He asked the officers to work in tandem so that the process of construction of this premier health institute was carried out in a smooth and expeditious manner for timely completion and operationalisation thereof.
Recently, the Central Government had announced that the AIIMS Jammu would be completed in January 2023.
