Spell out AIIMS location, HC tells TN govt

Madurai: TNN





The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday said the Tamil Nadu health secretary has to file all documents pertaining to the setting up of All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the state on August 1, failing which the secretary should appear before the court on August 7.

 

The division bench of justices K K Sasidharan and G R Swaminathan gave this direction on a public interest litigation filed by one B R Basker seeking to set up AIIMS in Madurai. When the case had come up for hearing on an earlier occasion, the Union health ministry told the bench by filing a counter that it is waiting for the Tamil Nadu government's response to its plan to set up AIIMS in the state.
The central government wrote a letter to the Tamil Nadu government requesting it to identify three or four suitable alternative locations for AIIMS as approximately 200 acres of land is required to set up an AIIMS type super-speciality hospital cum teaching institution.