AIIMS Rajkot’s main hospital building plan gets RUDA nod

Rajkot: The Rajkot Urban Development Authority (RUDA) on Thursday gave approval to the construction plan of the main hospital building of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Rajkot coming up in Khandheri and Pala Pipaliya village on Jamnagar road here. The authority had earlier approved the plans for 24 adjunct buildings of AIIMS Rajkot. With this all construction plans for the hospital complex has been approved.
The district administration has plans to start OPD from December this year. Currently, the medical college attached to AIIMS Rajkot is functioning from PDU Medical College.
RUDA has already approved other amenities and services for AIIMS building as per the CGDCR (common general development control regulation).
These amenities include a garden, sports ground, milk booth, primary school, local commercial market, vegetable market, police outpost, primary health center etc. Twenty-five other buildings are planned in the first phase including director’s bungalow, UG hostel for boys and girls, night shelter for patients relatives, guest house, housing for doctors, professors and nursing staff, auditorium, dining hall, academic block, to name a few. AIIMS buildings have got an exemption from development charge and scrutiny fee.