Itanagar, Mar 2 (UNI) Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Saturday approved the proposal for the creation of 39 posts of faculties in the state’s lone medical college, Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (TRIHMS), Naharlagun because of the upgradation of its intake capacity of MBBS students from existing 50 to 100.
Chief Minister's office sources said the proposal for the creation of one post of Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiology in TRIHMS also got the nod from the Cabinet. It also approved the proposal for the creation of one post of Deputy Drugs Controller under the Directorate of Health Services.
Further, the Cabinet approved notifying 23 local languages and dialects of constitutionally notified tribes of Arunachal Pradesh as the third language in the state. This step is being taken to preserve and promote the state's indigenous languages and dialects, it said.