Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur. Telegraph picture

Muzaffarpur, March 10: Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) has received Rs 8 crore of the allotted Rs 18 crore for starting its postgraduate department in medical science.

The college is also slated to receive the required equipment for the department soon. All it needs now is the permission from the Centre to start the course.

The Centre has so far facilitated Rs 8 crore to the state government as the first instalment to help equip SKMCH with the necessary infrastructure.

Superintendent of SKMCH G.K. Thakur said the joint secretary to medical education department, Anita Tripathi, has sought details of necessary infrastructure required for the postgraduate departments and asked him and the principal to open the postgraduate departments.

Thakur said: “The pumping of funds to the SKMCH to refurbish the departments is being seen as a well-planned initiative of the central government to start teaching in the postgraduate disciplines in the college in the days to come.”

Superintendent of SKMCH said the central government has so far not informed the collge regarding starting teaching courses into the postgraduate disciplines from this academic year.

“Even the Medical Council of India (MCI) has so far not issued any letter of permission to start admissions into these courses,” Thakur said. However, he added the government has serious plans to start teaching in these postgraduate courses as early as possible.

SKMCH principal D.K. Sinha expressed hope that the central government would be able to start the postgraduate courses of the medical science from this year itself.

The Medical Council of India had completed its necessary inspection of SKMCH in 2009 and pointed out certain requirements that were to be fulfilled.

Sinha said the amount released as the first instalment would be utilised to get the required equipment. The Centre has expressed willingness to hike the grant it needed for the building and infrastructure of SKMCH, the principal added.