ESIC Medical College - RTI Application Response
Under Right To Information ( RTI ) Act , an application was filed by Prashant K Sahoo, on behalf of Odia Samaja/OdiSA Development Team, the following answers are received from ESIC Corporation , New Delhi for the decision of setting up ESIC Medical College at Bhubaneshwar
Q. 1. What are the reasons for choosing Bhubaneshwar, Odisha as the location for ESIC Medical College and Hospital, when Rourkela and its nearby areas are having the largest number of ESIC Insured Persons (ESIC Employees)?
Ans : Govt. of Orissa has offered 25 acres of land at Bhubaneshwar for setting up medical college by ESI Corporation.
Q. 2. On what ground Bolangir, Odisha was not considered as a location for the ESIC Medical College and Hospital?
Ans : There was no such proposal for consideration,
Q. 3. Whether Rourkela as a location for ESIC Medical College proposed by Govt. of Odisha? If so please specify the date of such porposal? Who had sent the proposal (Name of the person/officer)?
Ans : Govt. of Orissa has not proposed Rourkela as a location for ESIC medical college.
Q. 4. If Rourkela was proposed, then on
Ans : Not applicable.
As you can clearly see, Balangir as a location for ESIC Medical College was never proposed by Labour Ministry, Govt of Odisha. But on the news paper they have claimed Balangir was proposed but ESIC has rejected the proposal.
Similarly, Rourkela ( The most suitable candidate for the medical College ) was never proposed by Labor Ministry, Govt. of Odisha but upon follow up , Many MPs and Ministers of Odisha has stated verbally that Rourkela was proposed but ESIC , New Delhi rejected the proposal.
Attached are the Response sheet received from ESIC , New Delhi under RTI Application
RTI Application Filed : http://www.odiasamaja.org/wp-content/uploads/rti_prashant-sahoo-25-oct_copy.pdf
Copy of the Answer Received :
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Comment by Sidharth Misra on 14 December 2009:
Dear Prashant,
From the response of ESIC, New Delhi it is transparent that the Govt. of Orissa is the real culprit. There’s no point in pointing fingures at ESIC when the state govt. is disinclined towards Rourkela/Balangir etc.
Plz Apply to the ODISHA Govt. and seek information why they have not considered any place from KBK/Western ODISHA. And whether any one from these places have made any demand for the same.
Sidharth misra
An ODIA
Comment by BJena on 14 December 2009:
This news need to be published in all leading News papers.
And whoever refused to publish means , they are linked to those political mafias.
Regards
B.Jena
Comment by admin on 14 December 2009:
@ Siddharth Misra,
This is not a question about KBK or Western Odisha. ESIC medical college must be located strategically in a place where it has larger number of beneficiaries. So, Rourkela deserve it in terms of highest number of IPs in Odisha in and around it.
Odisha Govt. has been already filed with another RTI application by one of our OdiSA-Development Team members, response is awaited may be next week or so.