Medical University should to be established at Berhampur

By Abhisek Mishra

In our state there is no uniform and consistent policy for establishing higher and technical education Institutions and Universities. This has resulted in some cities and regions getting completely ignored while others have multiple Government professional institutions. When it comes to the establishment of professional Universities the region of South Orissa draws a total blank, while all other regions of the state have been taken care of in this regard. All the professional Universities established so far in our state, like OUAT, BPUT, Orissa Law University, Culture University and the recently established VSSUT have all been located in places other than the under developed region of South Orissa. Further, the Institutions like IIT and NIT are for all practical purposes function as multi-disciplinary Professional Universities. Hence, it becomes imperative that the planned Medical University is established in Berhampur, the major city in the south, for balanced and logical distribution of Professional Universities in the State. The issue should not be politicized and made controversial and everyone in the state should support this logical and rational proposal for balanced development of the state.