Haryana Health Minister, Ms Aarti Singh Rao, said that the state government plans to shift the District Civil Hospital, Karnal, to Sector-32A, Karnal, on HSVP land. A new building will be constructed on this site to establish a 200-bed hospital. The Health Minister was responding to a question raised by a member during the ongoing session of the Winter Session Haryana Vidhan Sabha here today.
She informed the House that a new site of 9.90 acres has been identified for constructing the hospital on HSVP land. The previously selected land was unsuitable because high-tension wires ran over it. The newly selected land is now being officially demarcated.
Ms Aarti Singh Rao provided further details, stating that on 23 November 2021, 13 acres of land in Sector 32A, Karnal was allotted in the name of the Director General, Health Services, Panchkula, at a rate of Rs. 16,000 per square meter. According to a letter dated March 30, 2022, the allotting department requested an extension of time.
Later, on January 27, 2023, the Civil Surgeon’s office in Karnal reported that 4 acres of the 13-acre land had high-tension wires running over it, making it unsuitable. Subsequently, in a meeting held on November 16, 2022, chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary, Town and Country Planning Department, the government directed that 9.90 acres of land adjacent to the previously allotted plot be re-demarcated.
The revised demarcation has since been approved by the Chief Town Planner of HSVP. The land transfer will be completed soon, after which construction of the new hospital building will commence.
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