Nagpur: The Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) is going to name its new hospital after Swatantryaveer Savarkar. A decision to this effect was taken at the NIT board meeting held on Monday.
The 300 bed multi-speciality hospital — the brainchild of East Nagpur MLA Krishna Khopde — is coming up at Wathoda Khopde told sources that it was his demand to name the hospital after freedom fighter Savarkar.
The move comes even as there have been several controversies over Vinayak Savarkar’s name, with Congress MP Rahul Gandhi leading the opposition to his name during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in 2022 at Akola.
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Sources in NIT told TOI that the state government had in 2023 approved the construction of the multi-speciality hospital being envisaged by the civic agency. NIT had received ₹187 crore from the state government for the project.
The process to construct the hospital has commenced and a project management consultant has been entrusted to prepare the blueprint of the hospital, which will come up in front of Chandmari temple at Wathoda. The NIT has also floated a tender and the work, estimated to cost ₹125.02 crore, would be completed in two years.
Khopde said the firm to construct the hospital would be finalized within a fortnight and the civil work for the project would commence from early next month.
Being a multispecialty hospital, all important diseases will be treated here, NIT official said.
This hospital will be constructed on 7,345 square meters with six operation theatres, 38 OPDs, 30 ICU beds, 15 NICU beds, canteen for 150 persons.
