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Named after ‘father of the Nation’, flouting safety rules, risking students’ lives!

Jaipur: As an establishment grows over a period of time, its ‘soft power’ also grows. However, how one organization uses this soft power is arbitrary and, at times, raises question on the said organization as well. And one such case, it seems, is of Mahatma Gandhi Medical University, before which, it would appear that perhaps the ‘system’ also bows down!

Firstly, the University occupied the Green Corridor around it & is reportedly now preparing for shifting of “high tension” lines. What is interesting here is that the proposal for re-routing of the line has been forwarded by RIICO to Power Grid, instead of RIICO taking possession of the said ‘Green Buffer Zone’

In fact, the proposal for re-routing of 400 KV “High Tension” line on the recommendation of University has been forwarded wherein, the reason stated by University Management in proposal sent to Power Grid CMD mentions that the medical hub is ready on the allotted plots of RIICO. Apart from the Medical College, Dental College, Nursing College, Nursing School, Cardiac Centre, Super Speciality Cancer Hospital and other facilities have been established at this place and due to high tension line, there is problem of “magnetic transmission’ on brain therapy, mammography, dexa scan.”

Thus the University administration wants re-routing of 400 KV “high tension” at its own expense.
In fact, this has posed as a major threat to the safety of medical students due to serious negligence of Mahatma Gandhi Medical University administration. 10 to 12 feet high walls were erected just below the high tension with the intention of occupation and keeping aside the threats posed by the overhanging high tension wires, a playgroundparking area has been developed underneath. Not only this, at one or two places, material stores have been built under the line itself.

Actually, the area below the 400 KV high tension of the power grid is the “Green Buffer Zone” and even RIICO declared this area as “Green Buffer Zone” during allotment of land to the University. According to the safety regulation of the Central Electricity Authority, this zone is extremely dangerous and construction cannot be done in the “right of way” of about 46 meters below the line. But ignoring the threat to the lives of medical students, the University is doing illegal encroachment, and made a mockery of “Green Buffer Zone” by installing iron railings of 10 feet.

But the most surprising thing that in this entire proposal RIICO hasn’t mentioned anywhere about the illegal occupation in the “Green Buffer Zone” by the University Administration, nor did it tell that the 400 KV transmission line of Power Grid is several years old. In such a situation, the question is, whether the University management was not worried about the danger of construction near the high tension, and if that is a genuine concern, then why are the strict rules of “Green Buffer Zone” being mocked? After all, why are other government agencies silent about RIICO and Power Grid?

This also raises a pertinent question: Is all this not in the knowledge of Dr ML Swarnakar? If Dr ML Swarnakar has really retired from the hospital, then hand over the work of solving this serious issue to a responsible person! Along with this, it is also the responsibility of the government agencies that look after the safety norms, so that the students of Mahatma Gandhi University campus should not become victim of a big accident due to high tension line?

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