π Tender Overview
Scope : To Set up a School of Medical Sciences and Technology in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will set up a school of Medical Sciences and Technology in collaboration with IndiGo co-promoter and alumnus Rakesh Gangwal.
Gangwal will donate Rs 100 crore to establish the college, which will come up on the IIT Kanpur campus. He will also be on advisory board of the school.
The school will be completed in two phases. Phase I of the project will include setting up a 500-bed super-speciality hospital, academic block, residential/hostel, and service block with a total built-up area of approximately 8,10,000 sq ft. Centres of Excellence for pursuing research and development activities in futuristic medicine will also be part of the first phase.
Phase I is tentatively scheduled to be completed over the next three to five years.
Phase II of the project, which is likely to take seven to 10 years to complete, will see the hospital capacity grow to 1,000 beds, expanding clinical departments/centres, research areas, the inclusion of paramedical disciplines, alternative medicine, hospital management, sports medicine, and public health programmes.
The school is in line with IIT Kanpur's vision of bringing about a paradigm shift by merging medical research and technological innovations in the country.
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