Shillong, Aug 3: Tura Garo Senior Citizens Forum has threatened to agitate if the government goes ahead with privatisation of Tura Medical College & Hospital (TMCH) as it was conceived as government medical college.
In a letter addressed to Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, the Forum said what the senior citizens demand is justice to the region.
“What grieves us most is not simply that the college is delayed, still incomplete; though that itself is shameful failure but that it is now being eyed as a business opportunity rather than a sacred public institution. We ask: Why is Shillong Medical College (SMC) being developed and launched as a fully public, government-run medical college, while TMCH, its sister project, is being handed over to private interests? Is Tura not equally deserving of public investment, public trust and public control, the residents'”, said the Forum
