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The Impressive Building of the General Hospital in Malegaon. |
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The
Pain in Malegaon |
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 Dying Textile Industry:
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to delink the subsidy from the bank
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Hazardous emissions no case for MPCB:
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The GAP widening day by day:
Perform or perish. It was the warning given to the new Ministers who
took the....Read
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Whose purpose are they
actually
serving?:
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at all they....Read
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the
wages,
teachers
are forced to work in
powerloom factories during the night:
The life has become a hell for more than 1000...Read
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Established in 1863 Malegaon Municipal Council till a decade ago was regarded as one of the richest Council
in Maharashtra. It was so....Read
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Malegaon:
Congress President Mrs. Sonia Gandhi would be inaugurating the 200-bed General
Hospital today afternoon in Malegaon.
"The
General Hospital will be inaugurated by UPA Chairperson Mrs. Sonia
Gandhi today afternoon", SDO Ajay More informed while speaking to
ummid.com.
The
inauguration would end months of speculations over who would
actually cut the ribbon before the hospital is opened for the
general public.
Besides Mrs. Gandhi, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chief
Minister Ashok Chavan, Dy. Chief Minister Chagan Bhujbal and other Ministers
in the Government of Maharashtra would also be present in the
inaugural function, said Ajay More.
Meanwhile
Malegaon is resembling a fortress and the security is beefed up in
view of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's visit to the town.
District
Collector P. Velrasu and IG Police Suryaprakash Gupta are
camping in the town since last few days to personally monitor the
security and other measures. They are assisted by Additional
Collector Yeshwant Sonawane, SP Nikhil Gupta, SDO Ajay More and
Additional SP Sanjay Patil.
Owing to
the tight security arrangements for Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the general
public is not allowed to attend the much awaited inaugural function.
"The
inaugural function would be attended only by a gathering of selected
people who are already issued the entry passes", Sanjay Patil
Additional SP said in a press release circulated in the local media
while appealing the people not to crowd the venue.
Cost
of the Hospital
Though the government figures show an estimated 16 crore rupees that
were
spent on the hospital, locals believe the Malegaonians have paid a
very heavy price to get this hospital for the town.
“We have to undergo a series
of communal riots and two terrorist attacks before the Government
realized the town needs an equipped government hospital in the
town”, Malik Bakrawala, a local activist says while speaking to
ummid.com. “Apart from whatever the Government
had spent on this hospital in the form of money, the innocent lives
killed in several riots and specially those who were killed in 2006
serial blast played a major
role in converting this dream project into a reality for the
Malegaonians", he adds.
The hospital inauguration was earlier planned before the
parliamentary elections. However after the strong opposition from
few local leaders who threatened of dire consequences if the
hospital was inaugurated without the required machineries, the
authorities postponed its opening.
The General
Hospital was promised by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi herself when she had
visited the town after 2006 serial blast.
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Forgotten
Heroes: “I have always wondered how, the
Muslims and the Hindus together, had decided to set a Mandir on
fire”, said Dr. 
A Masjid,
A Mandir and Me: Malegaon, a town in India with more than 70%
Muslim population has always been considered as a communally sensitive
place....
‘Advising
Restraint, work for the Revival of the Community’:
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