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A delegation of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) led by its president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy lodged a ailment with Governor S. Abdul Nazeer against the PPP exemplary of operation of aesculapian colleges, maintaining that its volition was to privatise the colleges and that it would beryllium detrimental to aesculapian acquisition successful the State.
Addressing media persons later, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said helium submitted a study to the Governor connected the 1 crore signature run organised by the YSRCP against the government’s attempts to '’privatise the aesculapian colleges nether the garb of PPP’’ and that the substance would beryllium challenged successful the courts, to which the papers containing 1,04,11,136 signatures would beryllium submitted if required to convey the gravity of the situation.
He said the YSRCP would not support quiescent if the authorities does not springiness up its program to privatise the colleges, and that completion of the operation of the colleges which came to a intermission successful 2024, would necessitate ₹5,000 crore and the authorities appeared to beryllium reluctant to walk it from its ₹2 lakh crore budget.
The authorities owed an mentation for this, helium said, portion appealing for a rethink connected the decision. Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy pointed retired that during the YSRCP regime, a aesculapian assemblage was sanctioned for each territory to marque escaped ace - specialty services accessible to the radical done the teaching hospitals.
Completing the 17 aesculapian colleges would bring further seats wrong the scope of the students. He insisted that nether the PPP model, lands, buildings and employees would beryllium nether the authorities control, but absorption of the colleges would beryllium entrusted to backstage entities to whom the profits would go.
Signature campaign
Addressing a gathering of YSRCP leaders earlier successful the time aft flagging disconnected vehicles (at his residence successful Tadepalli) carrying papers containing the 1 crore-plus signatures to the Lok Bhavan successful Vijayawada, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy vowed to cancel the PPP exemplary erstwhile the YSRCP returns to power, calling it a large scam.
He recalled that erstwhile CM N. Janardhan Reddy had to measurement down for giving support to backstage aesculapian colleges and hoped that Mr. Naidu would recognize the rationale down keeping schools and hospitals with the governments since independence, which was to guarantee that the services were affordable and reached each those successful need.
