Foundation laid for MIMSR at Talcher

Odisha Channel Bureau Talcher (Odisha), Sep 3: The foundation stone for the proposed Mahanadi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (MIMSR), a Rs.492 crore CSR project of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) was laid by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today.The MIMSR will have a 100-seat medical college with 500 bedded multi-specialty Hospital with the state-of-the-art medical facilities in Anatomy, Bio-chemistry, Micro-Biology, Physiology, FM, toxicology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Community Medicine, Laboratory and Library.The project envisages a hostel for 300 boys, a separate hostel for 200 girl students, two blocks of hostel for 100 interns, a hostel for 57 junior resident doctors and a 50-bedded nurses’ hostel.It also includes separate 42 flats for faculty members, and higher accommodation facility for professors and the head of the institution.Planned on the smart and green concept with building management system by public sector construction major National Building Construction Corporation Ltd.(NBCC), the MIMSR campus would also have a modern gym, guest house and shopping arcade.The foundation stone of the ambitious CSR project in the country’s largest coalfield by a coal CPSU was laid in the august presence of Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Coal, Power and New & Renewable Energy and Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum & Natural Gas.Odisha Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Dhenkanal MP Tathagata Satapathy, Talcher MLA Braja Kishore Pradhan were among the distinguished people present at the ceremony, which was witnessed by a large gathering of people of peripheral areas of MCL. MCL CMD A.N.Sahay; Director (Technical/Operations) A.K.Tiwari; Chief Vigilance Officer Deepak Srivastava; Director (Technical/Projects & Planning) J.P.Singh; Director (Personnel) P.C.Panigrahi; and Director (Finance) K.K.Parida were prominent among the large number of company’s senior officers present on the occasion.