Tribune News Service

Naina Mishra

Chandigarh, August 20

Twelve Urban Health and Wellness Centres within the metropolis have been hanging hearth for a very long time. This is regardless of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare having launched funds for 16 centres to the Chandigarh Administration.

The centres at Raipur Kalan and Makhan Majra are anticipated to be accomplished by October 31 with civil work contracts set to be awarded quickly. The one at Khuda Jassu is prone to be accomplished by October 15.

The centres at Sector 52, Sector 25, Khuda Lahora, Khuda Ali Sher and Sector 39 are of their last phases of building, with solely minor duties remaining. The centre at Kishangarh, nevertheless, faces a location subject. The website is considerably beneath the bottom degree. To resolve this subject, the authorities involved are searching for a standardised design that will enable them to assemble a brand new constructing on the website.

The centre at Indira Colony is caught up because the Municipal Corporation has refused to supply land freed from price. The proposal has been postponement. Earlier, the land had been utilized by the PGI to run a dispensary for a number of years.

Meanwhile, little to no progress has been made with regard to the centres on the District Courts premises in Sector 43 and on the Punjab and Haryana High Court complicated. The centre at Daria has been placed on maintain because of the requirement of a no objection certificates (NOC) from the Municipal Corporation. The website the place this centre is to return up has been categorised as shamlat land.

The completion of the Raipur Khurd centre relies on offering the architect wing with particulars similar to scope of works and drawings. Lastly, the Hallo Majra centre can be in limbo, highlighting the broader challenges confronted within the metropolis’s efforts to boost healthcare infrastructure.

As per the rules of the Central Government, funds as much as Rs 25 lakh could be utilised for improve of infrastructure at every Urban Health and Wellness Centre and Rs 2 lakh on primary tools and furnishings gadgets.

Project standing

• Raipur Kalan, Makhkan Majra — Civil works pending
• Khuda Lahora, Khuda Ali Sher, Sector 39 — Minor renovation remaining
• Kishangarh — Construction to be accomplished afresh
• Indira Colony — MC but at hand over land
• Daria — NOC from MC is awaited
• District Courts-43, High Court — No progress made thus far
• Raipur Khurd — Architect wing awaits scope of works and drawings
• Hallo Majra — Construction work pending