Some Exemplary Actions to Emulate
Posted : October 30, 2004 at 10:53 am [IST]
Trehan plans a great thing:
Naresh Trehan, the well-known cardiologist and executive director of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre (EHIRC), is planning to build the Asian Institute of Medical Sciences- that may be something like a “medical city” in Gurgaon near Delhi the first project of its kind in Asia. The complex will spread over 50 acres and will house a 2,000-bed multi-speciality hospital, a hotel, service apartments, a research and development centre, a medical college and a residential colony. The exact investment may be around Rs 1,000 crore. The entire project is being driven by Dr. Trehan. Is it not a great entrepreneurship coming out a total professional? The country needs this short of entrepreneurship on a large scale to become a global super power. Professionals at one stage must get into business in which they are the best.
Shourie sets another example to follow
It’s a problem for many members of Parliament to spend the Rs 12 crore (Rs 120 million) given to them as part of MPLADS — the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme. Most spend it on a mix of roads, children’s playgrounds and other do-good projects.
Arun Shourie, however, had a completely different idea about what should be done with the money. He wanted to spend all the money he received over a five-year period on one multi-crore mega project. Further, the former telecom minister wanted to put the money into an area of frontier research in an ‘institute of excellence’ -a clean reputation that it was above question and wanted the money handed over directly. He also wanted the building to be modern state-of-the-art construction with energy saving features.
The result is the new Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE) department at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. The 16-lab department is housed in a 64,000 sq ft building equipped with the latest research tools needed for molecular biology and other types of bio-engineering.
A faculty of eight and about 75 students are carrying out research in a range of cutting-edge fields like DNA sequencing, tissue restructuring (which involves creating artificial human skin), bioinformatics and computational biology. Is it not one of the best thing that one MP uses his money rather than spending in all odd things to appease few of his ‘chamchas’ or to get most of the money back to himself through unscrupulous means?
- Indra
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