No AIIMS for Kerala: Nadda in Lok Sabha
Thiruvananthapuram: In a recent Lok Sabha session, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda has informed that the Centre had not given any instruction or assurance in establishing All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Kerala.
The intimation surfaced as a reply to Shashi Tharoor, an MP, who asked in regard to the AIIMS proposal in Kerala.
Meanwhile, denial of the institute's establishment has not gone well with the opposition, who has sharply condemned the government's stand calling it 'biased'.
Opposition Leader in Assembly Ramesh Chennithala said that the Union government had taken a biased stand and meted out injustice towards Kerala by denying the proposed AIIMS.
"AIIMS denial is a violation of promise on the part of Union government," Chennithala alleged.
"If the Minister made the statement on the basis of budget announcement, then it is technically correct. But several Union ministers have repeatedly assured to sanction AIIMS to the state," he claimed.
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