The proposal to shift the Kengal Hanumanthaiah Medical College from the proposed Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science (RGUHS) campus, Ramanagara to Kanakapura has taken a legal turn with the Kengal Hanumanthaiah Medical College Horata Samiti, and farmers who lost their land for the university campus filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the High Court of Karnataka. The PIL is yet to appear for hearing.
Amidst all these developments, Iqbal Hussain, MLA of Ramanagara constituency, has organised a “bhoomi pooja” programme of the RGUHS campus on September 28 and invited Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil, and other elected representatives for it. This is the fifth bhoomi pooja programme for the RGUHS campus construction work since 2007.
However, RGUHS has denied involvement. “Officially, we are not organising any bhoomi pooja programme for the construction work at the proposed campus of Ramanagara. We don’t know anything about the programme organized by the local MLA,” M.K. Ramesh, Vice Chancellor of RGUHS, clarified to The Hindu.
