Meghalaya govt shelves plan to run Tura Medical College on PPP mode

Shillong, Jan 15 (UNI) Meghalaya Health and Family Welfare Minister, Wailadmiki Shylla said that government has set aside its plan to run Tura Medical College on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode. Initially, the state government wanted to operate Tura Medical College on a PPP mode based on constraints with regard to non-availability of professionals. However, opposition parties including the Trinamool Congress and pressure groups feared that this would lead to higher costs for patients of Garo Hills and higher fees for local students, partly defeating the purpose of a public medical college. "We have decided that the Tura medical college…