By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR/KORAPUT: Chief Secretary Sri Suresh Chandra Mahapatra visited the proposed 650 bedded SLN Medical College and Hospital, in Koraput and reviewed the progress of construction work.
Chief Secretary Mahapatra visited Koraput district and reviewed the progress of developmental projects. During this two days visit Sri Mahapatra covered the places from Jeypore, Koraput to Kotia, Narayanpatana and Bandhugaon.
Mahapatra went to the project places and looked into the ground level progress & also directly interacted with people, took their feed-back about various schemes, projects, and service delivery mechanism.
Projects relating to construction of medical college, development of Jeypore airport for operation of commercial flights, construction of roads and bridges, implementation of special package for Kotia group of villages, piped drinking water and irrigation figured in the meeting.
Based on the scheme of Government of India, Government of Odisha has decided to upgrade this hospital into Medical College Hospital in view of benefit of patients not only in the undivided Koraput district but also other backward districts like Kalahandi, Nuapada as well as the two neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. This hospital is now named as Saheed Laxman Naik, Medical College Hospital, Koraput.
