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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers want hospital or land back by Sarat Sarma

Farmers want hospital or land back by Sarat Sarma

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published Published on Jun 21, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 21, 2011
Thirty sugarcane cultivators of Ujoragaon, a village located 15km from the district headquarters, today asked Dispur to resume construction of the 30-bed hospital for which they had donated four hectares 21 years ago or return their land.

The donors plan to approach Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the Congress legislator from Nagaon Sadar constituency, Durlav Chamua, soon.In 1990, the AGP-led state government had proposed to construct a 30-bed hospital in Ujoragaon, an agriculture belt popular for growing paddy and sugarcane, and had approved Rs 1 crore for the project. Twenty households came forward to donate land for the health institution following the government proposal.

“It was in the middle of 1990 that the then chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta laid the foundation stone of the hospital in the presence of thousands of people. The hospital was named Madhabdev community health centre. Subsequently, contractors were engaged to construct the hospital building, its boundary wall and quarters for doctors and paramedical staff. Within a very short time, the hospital had a staff of 14, including doctors, nurses, two local youths and some grade IV employees, even while the construction was under way,” said Hiren Bora, a resident who had donated four bighas of land for the hospital.

However, the construction of the hospital stopped soon after the government changed, villagers alleged.

“Half of the hospital’s walls have already been damaged by goons. We, the original landholders, continue cultivating sugarcane within the roofless rooms of the hospital. The land is in the hands of the government but if we stop cultivating, it would be encroached upon and that would be a second loss to us,” Ratul Hazarika, another donor, said.

Today, Madhabdev community health centre is a lost dream with the name neither registered with the health department nor anyone having heard of it. “I have not heard that name so far. There is no community health centre in Nagaon by the name of Madhabdev,” said Nagaon joint director of health services Apurba Sarma.

The villagers said they want Dispur to construct the hospital but in case the government takes no such step, it should return their land.

Nagaon has 10 community health centres of which six were upgraded to first referral units under a special European Commission programme in the district in 1997.

Chamua said he had discussed the community health centre with Sarma a week ago and the minister had assured him a fruitful package for revival of the institution.

“We want the hospital in that area as it would benefit the people. I hope the project will be revived very soon,” Chamua added.

The Telegraph, 21 June, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110621/jsp/northeast/story_14136625.jsp


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