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| Jitendra yet again withholds truth about AIIMS | | True story of facts | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 4: MoS in the PMO Jitendra Singh Thursday made a desperate attempt to defuse the situation in Jammu province. He admitted that Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had on February 28 announced AIIMS for Jammu and thanked the Finance Minister for his announcement. He asserted that AIIMS will be first established in Jammu than other region of the state. "We have no objection if AIIMS is set up in any other part of the state, but it will not come up before it comes up in Jammu. The AIIMS in any other part of the state will be constructed either along with the construction of a similar institution in Jammu or after it," he said in Jammu, adding that "the AIIMS was announced for Jammu and he had also thanked the Finance Minister for it".
However, the minister suppressed the truth when he claimed that "the foundation for AIIMS was laid 10 years ago during Vajpayee government when Sushma Swaraj was the Union Health Minister" and accused the Congress of scuttling the project. "After the change of guard at the Centre, the Congress government did not carry the project forward and the building was later converted into Super Specialty Hospital," he said.
Besides, Jitendra Singh also didn't refer to the agenda of alliance, which was signed in the last week of February. The agenda of alliance was duly approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah. It clearly said that the AIIMS and Super Specialty Hospital will be established in Kashmir. The agenda of Alliance was made public by the Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh in Jammu after the formation of the coalition government and it set the record straight. The fact of the matter is that Jitendra Singh again sought to mislead the agitating people of Jammu province. Earlier, he had misled them by saying that the BJP put Article 370 on the backburner because of the compulsion of coalition despite the fact that the PDP-BJP coalition Government assumed office on March 1 and the BJP's Vision Document, which had no reference to Article 370, was released to the Press on November 27 in Jammu.
Jitendra says that "the foundation for AIIMS was laid 10 years ago during Vajpayee government when Sushma Swaraj was the Union Health Minister". This is not correct. The fact is that it was only on February 28 that the Union government for the first time announced AIIMS for Jammu.
It would be appropriate to quote what a very senior retired bureaucrat has said about the AIIMS for the state. He has said Prime Minister Vajpayee announced in 2004 in his Independence-Day address from the ramparts of Red Fort that six new AIIMS will be established in six different states, but "Jammu and Kashmir's name was not there". He has also said that the "then Finance Minister followed the announcement in his Vote on Account speech in Lok Sabha on February 3, 2004". The Finance Minister, according to him, had in the Parliament said: "Specialty hospitals in the private sector remain beyond the reach of many of our citizens. The Prime Minister had, therefore, last Independence Day, announced the establishing of six hospitals, in the government sector, on the pattern of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). This 'Pradhanmantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana' (PMSSY) envisages six new AIIMS like hospitals, one each in the States of Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttaranchal. Hon'ble Members are doubtless aware that no additional hospital on the pattern of AIIMS has been set up by any government, since 1956. I would also like to mention that under this Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, one medical college each in the six States of Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal will also be upgraded to the level of AIIMS". It is clear that the Vajpayee-led NDA Government didn't sanction AIIMS for Jammu & Kashmir and that just one of the two Government Medical Colleges in Jammu and Kashmir was to be "upgraded by creating super specialties to the level of AIIMS".
The retired bureaucrat has made yet another revelation. He has said that "after coming to power in April 2004, the UPA delayed the scheme and did not earmark any funds in 2004-05 budget for the AIIMS campuses proposed by the NDA" and that the "PMSSY was included in 2005-06 budget and formally launched in March 2006". "It aimed", as per him, at "correcting the imbalances in the affordable healthcare facilities in the different parts of the country in general, and augmenting facilities for quality medical education in the under-served States in particular".
The Congress-led UPA Government had, it must be underlined, announced that six AIIMS-like institutions will be established at "Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chattisgarh), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Orissa), Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and Rishikesh Uttaranchal) at a cost of Rs 840 crore per institution". Later on, "Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh) and Raiganj (West Bengal) were also added". These States were selected, according to the retired bureaucrat, "on the basis of various socio-economic indicators like human development index, literacy rate, population below poverty line and per capital income and health indicators like population to bed ratio, prevalence rate of serious communicable diseases, infant mortality rate etc".
Not just this, this former bureaucrat has made yet another disclosure. As per him, "against six (Government Medical Colleges) announced by the NDA, the UPA sanctioned 13 Government Medical Colleges, two in Jammu and Kashmir, for extensive up-gradation by creating super specialties at the cost of Rs. 120 crore". He further informed that the "AIIMS Act of 1956 was amended in 2012 to include eight new AIIMS". All these facts are self-revealing, which only serve to establish that what Jitendra Singh today said was not correct. |
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