It’s a lotus: Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University in Lucknow

It’s a lotus: Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University in Lucknow

TNN | Dec 22, 2019, 07.01 AM IST

LUCKNOW: The Rs 201-crore Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University, foundation of which will be laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on December 25, will be built in the shape of a lotus.

The university will be a first-of-its-kind providing affiliation to medical colleges. The university, to come up in CG City, will be completed by end-2020.

Vajpayee represented Lucknow in Parliament for five terms from 1991 to 2009.

In its first phase, the university will have complete infrastructure to house a state-of-the-art auditorium and administrative block. The second phase will see establishment of a hospital and teaching facilities.

State medical education department has invited tenders from major construction agencies and PWD is the nodal agency for the project.

Meanwhile, a three-day event has been organised in the city to commemorate Vajpayee’s birth anniversary, which would culminate with the inauguration of the late PM’s bronze statue by Modi on December 25.

In a meeting held on Saturday, it was finalised that celebrations would be kicked off on December 23, with a performance on Sita Swayamvara. This would be followed by a musical rendition of 51 poems composed by Vajpayee. On the following day, a talk on ‘Rashtra Dharma, Rashtravad aur Ataj ji’ would be organised.

This would be addressed by BJP MP Rakesh Sinha, deputy CM Dinesh Sharma and UP assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit. A Kathak performance based on Vajpayee’s poems would be held at night.

On December 25, which is Vajpayee’s birthday, the PM would inaugurate his statue at 3pm in Lok Bhawan. He is later expected to address a programme, along with CM Yogi Adityanath and defence minister Rajnath Singh.