A medical university run by an education trust of the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) was named after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. The Medical Education Trust (MET) runs the university in the Maninagar area of Ahmedabad.
“Now the ‘AMC MET Medical College’, which runs from the campus of the AMC-run LG Hospital in the Maninagar area of the city, will be known as ‘Narendra Modi Medical College,’ Hitesh Barot announced, chairman of the municipal corporation committee A proposal to christen the medical college after Modi passed unanimously in a standing committee meeting held Thursday, he said.
The college was built when Modi was Gujarat’s prime minister, Barot said. “Since this medical university was built during Prime Minister Modi’s tenure as chief minister of Gujarat, everyone believed that it should be named after Narendra bhai so that people remember his contribution. That’s the least we can do for someone who has done so much for the state and the city,” he said.
According to the chairman of the permanent committee of the AMC, nearly 300 medical students participate in higher education and postgraduate courses every year. The educational institute is affiliated with the LG hospital with 1,050 beds run by the AMC. Founded in 2009 when Modi was Gujarat CM, the college is one of three medical colleges run by the AMC MET in the city. Two others are NHL Municipal Medical College and AMC Dental College.
“It was Modi’s vision to strengthen medical education in the state by building colleges so that the state gets more doctors to serve people. The AMC named the college after Modiji as a tribute to his vision’, says Barot, who is also a member of MET. The trust accepted Barot’s proposal and presented it for consideration at Thursday’s standing committee meeting as an “urgent matter”.
The proposal was passed unanimously at the meeting, he said. In 2021, the Gujarat Cricket Association had named the newly built cricket stadium in the Motera area of the city after the prime minister, a move that had sparked controversy.
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