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Global Knowledge & Health City Coming Up At Durgapur
Joy Roy Choudhury - Kolkata
The steel city of Durgapur in West
Bengal will soon get the country’s first dedicated
‘Knowledge & Health City’. Christened
‘SPS Synergy Knowledge & Health City’,
the proposed city will include a 500-bed hospital-cum-private
medical college, super speciality clinics, medi-care
centre, nursing college, dental college, pharmacy college,
paramedical college, international residential school,
media & management college, technology colleges,
indoor sports complex, outdoor sports complex, apartments,
shopping malls, a health hotel etc. To be developed
by SPS Synergy Foundation (a joint enterprise of SPS
Group and Synergy Group), at a cost of Rs 600 crore,
the project will be completed in three phases over the
next seven years. The ceremony to lay the foundation
stone for the first phase of the project was held recently
in Durgapur. Speaking on the occasion, Nirupam Sen,
the West Bengal Commerce & Industries Minister said,
“Several leading health and educational institutions
have evinced keen interest to set up their projects
in the city.” He added that though 60-odd private
engineering colleges have been set up in the State,
private medical colleges have not come up in the State
due to strict regulations and restrictions of the Medical
Council of India. “But I am happy to note that
a private medical college-cum-hospital is coming up
within the city.”
The first phase of the project will entail an investment of Rs 150 crore and
is likely to be completed in the next two and half years. Bipin Kumar Vohra,
Chairman & Managing Director of SPS Group and promoter of the project said,
“A 500-bed hospital-cum-medical college, a nursing college, a paramedical
college, an international residential school, apartments, a sports complex and
a shopping mall will be built in the first phase.”
The Asansol Durgapur Development Authority (ADDA) has handed over 100 acres
of land for the first phase. Another 200 acres will be acquired in phases. The
first phase is expected to generate direct employment for more than 2,000 people.
The three phases together have come with a job promise for over 7,000 people
and is expected to generate indirect employment for 10,000 others.
In the third phase, an old-age home, homeopathy, naturopathy, pharmacy units
and a medical mall and a health hotel will be constructed, Vohra said.
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