Demanding rollback of the PPP notification for authorities aesculapian colleges, civilian nine organisation Praja Arogya Vedika (PAV) said the move, formalised done a furniture solution and contented of tenders for PPP, represents a blatant abdication of the government’s Constitutional work to supply affordable aesculapian acquisition and healthcare to each citizens.
In a missive to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, PAV wide caput T. Kameshwar Rao and president MV Ramanaiah expressed superior interest astatine the government’s caller determination to manus implicit 10 recently sanctioned authorities aesculapian colleges to backstage entities nether the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
They drew the attraction of Mr. Naidu to the information that the NITI Aayog’s directive to found 1 aesculapian assemblage per Lok Sabha constituency led to the sanctioning of 17 caller aesculapian colleges for Andhra Pradesh during the erstwhile YSRCP regime. Five of these colleges person already commenced operations connected a Letter of Permission basis, and 2 much successful tribal and distant areas are progressing with afloat Central funding.
However, the conjugation government’s determination to transportation 10 of these colleges to PPP is simply a shocking betrayal of nationalist trust. It not lone distances mediocre and mediate people younker from pursuing aesculapian acquisition but besides pushes nationalist wellness into peril by commodifying indispensable services.
They alleged that the State authorities was trying to spell up with the PPP argumentation making mendacious claims connected shortage of experts, infrastructure and funds arsenic justifications for the PPP. While each assemblage requires astir ₹500 crore for construction, the Central authorities is nether work to supply 80% of funds portion the State’s stock of 20% tin beryllium raised done its ain fund oregon loans from institutions similar NABARD.
Several colleges are already successful precocious stages of construction, requiring conscionable ₹50-60 crore for completion. Handing implicit institutions built with 80% nationalist funds to backstage players for a specified 20% concern is thing abbreviated of squandering nationalist resources and enriching firm interests.
The PAV leaders noted that PPP is privatization successful disguise. Private entities run solely for profit, lacking immoderate humanitarian ethos. They volition auction seats astatine exorbitant prices and marque aesculapian acquisition accessible lone to the affluent.
In government-run colleges, attached hospitals supply escaped services, portion nether PPP, patients volition beryllium forced to pay, turning healthcare into a marketplace commodity. The argumentation volition besides undermine reservations and deprive the mediocre and marginalised of aesculapian education.
They request rollback of the PPP notification, revoke GO no.’s 107 and 108 and support Aarogyasri and nationalist healthcare.
