President to inaugurate nursing college tomorrow

President to inaugurate nursing college tomorrow
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President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate ‘Mahila Dakshta Samithi and Bansilal Malani College of Nursing’ at HICC Complex in Hitec City on Saturday along with Governor ESL Narasimhan and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and MP Vishweshar Reddy will also attend the function.

President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate ‘Mahila Dakshta Samithi and Bansilal Malani College of Nursing’ at HICC Complex in Hitec City on Saturday along with Governor ESL Narasimhan and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and MP Vishweshar Reddy will also attend the function.

The announcement came from Samithi leaders on Thursday that included Saroj Bajaj (President), Aruna Malani (secretary) who informed that the the college, located in Chandanagar, with 50 seats, would offer BSc nursing course from next year.

The college buildings, with approvals from the State government, Kaloji Narayan Rao University of Health Sciences and Indian Nursing Council, have been constructed as per the specifications of the council.

Its laboratories and library are fully equipped.

Leaders explained that a vocational junior college and a degree college, with hostel facility, are running on a four-acre site in Chandanagar allotted by the government.

They said the colleges were mainly catering to the needs of poor girl-students from rural areas, as the samiti aimed to attract vulnerable sections to higher education.

As many as 23,800 students have so far passed out of these institutions.

According to the leaders, Krishna Kumar Malani, son of the late Bansilal Malani, a noted businessman of Hyderabad and a philanthropist, had joined hands to take up the nursing college project.

His mother Aruna Malani is a renowned social worker.

The vocational junior college runs courses in nursing, physiotherepy, lab technology and computer educations.

It was inaugurated by the State Governor in the presence of the then Chief Minister K Rosaiah in June 2010, the samiti leaders said.


They stated that the colleges were providing free board and lodging facilities to orphans, girls with single parents and daughters of agricultural labourers besides daily wage-earners.

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