Pay Rs 70 crore or vacate premises: Medical College gets govt ultimatum
Chandigarh: Issuing a warning to the management of Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the State Government has asked it to deposit the pending concessionaire fee or vacate the college.
The notice to the college management in this regard has been served by the Additional Chief Secretary of Medical Education and Research.
For the last nine months the matter has been pending and the college management already owes around Rs 70 crore to the government, reports The Tribune.
However, the government could not remove the management and it also failed to recover the money as a concessionaire fee from the management of the college.
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As per the latest media report by The Tribune, back in June 2022, at the 37th governing body meeting of the PIMS Society, the Chief Minister had chaired the meeting. At that time, referring to the financial crunch in the college, the CM had termed it to be a matter of serious concern.
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