Ayurved University building in limbo

Just before the last assembly elections, the Punjab government had started Guru Ravidas Ayurved University in the city in the Panchayat Bhawan building in 2011 with much fanfare and started work on a new building on the leased land in Kharkan village, but it has failed to provide required funds for its completion.

The public works department (PWD) has been left with no option but to suspend the work. Work is at a standstill for about a year. Since the building has no boundary wall, there is threat to the new structure as well as the material lying around it. The department wants to hand over the incomplete building to the university. But the latter is reluctant to accept it in its existing condition.

Vice-chancellor Prof O P Upadhya revealed that so far they had received Rs. 3.3 crore from the state government and Rs. 3.1 crore from the department of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) which functions under the union ministry of health and family welfare.

The university proposed to start its own college with administrative, residential and hostel buildings and in the first phase of the project, Rs. 11 crore had to be spent while the total project is worth over Rs.50 crore. The university was set up with an aim to promote research in different faculties of AYUSH. On the initiative of former MLA Tikshan Sud, the Kharkan village panchayat had given 33 acre land for the project. As many as 12 colleges of Ayurveda and 4 of homeopathy are affiliated to this university.

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