Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has added another feather to its realty cap, with the 47-metre tall Maninagar Medical College, adjacent to LG hospital, the second tallest building of the city coming up at the cost of Rs.45 crore. The revolving restaurant, Neelkanth Patang, is the city’s tallest building, standing approximately 67 metres high.
Ahmedabad mayor Asit Vora said that the AMC Medical Education Trust (MET) Maninagar Medical College is the tallest building in their category and having the largest medical campus.
The medical college building has higher floor height compared to normal buildings. This makes the building seem taller than it is, despite it having only 10 floors, said officials of AMC’s engineering students. The college has 150 seats for Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), out of which, 23 seats are for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs).
The college has obtained necessary permission for running first two years of MBBS from the Medical Council of India (MCI) and Gujarat University. At present, 300 students study in the college.
Initially AMC’s decision to start a self-financed medical college was criticised. However, AMC office bearers justified their move by saying that it will help the students from Gujarat to obtain admission in medical field.
Vora said students from Gujarat used to give around Rs.30-40 lakh as donation in other states for getting admission in medical field. Moreover, they used to be victims of ragging and other nuisances. “Gujarat has got 123 medical seats per year which will help the students,” said Vora. He also said that the fees for graduation was Rs.3.15 lakh on normal seats, while NRI students would be charged $60,000. NRI seats will help the civic body to generate revenue.
