IMPHAL, September 13: The Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) has refuted the report published on a local daily today regarding the hostel facility in Bishnupur district.
A release of RIMS has stated the report as distorted and misleading and said that RIMS is the rightful owner of 1.87 hectares of land at Loukoipat in Bishnupur where nine buildings had been constructed long time back for training students in community medicine. These had been occupied by the state and the security forces from time to time. The RIMS authority has been trying to reclaim the land and buildings, it said.
Eventually the community medicine branch in Churachandpur was shifted to Bishnupur as it was assured that alternative buildings would be provided. The old Bishnupur DC office and some quarters were made available to RIMS, it continued.
However, some quarters were again allotted to state government employees. In a meeting held on September 11, 2012 it was assured that RIMS may continue to use the alternative buildings of the DC office and bungalow (old) until army would be shifted from the RIMS offices, it said.
Some students who undergo training in community medicine during internship have to stay there during the short course although they have their regular rooms in the hostels on the RIMS Lamphelpat campus. It is a figment of imagination to say the MCI may derecognise RIMS in this context since it is not an issue unless the RIMS land and buildings are returned or alternative premises for teaching community medicine at rural area is made available, it further continued.
“It may be mentioned that some days back this newspaper had editorially commented that the College of Nursing has no hostel and the PG students are being evicted to accommodate the nursing students,” it said, and it clarifies that Hostel facility is one of the infrastructures for the INC recognisation and RIMS has it.
There is adequate hostel facility for the nursing students and the authority is preparing for the annual intake of students in the subsequent years. Half-baked tendentious reports will cause confusion among the readers, it added.