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New Delhi : There have been reports in a section of the media regarding the status of National Cancer Institute (NCI) at Jhajjar in Haryana. Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare J P Nadda on February 26, 2019, categorically said that the National Cancer Institute at Jhajjar, Haryana, recently dedicated to the nation by PM Narendra Modi is an integral part of AIIMS, New Delhi, and is a specialty tertiary healthcare institute dedicated to cancer care.
This is second campus of the AIIMS Delhi, Nadda said. He also clarified that all the facilities as envisaged for Jhajjar shall be developed there only and shall not be shifted elsewhere. Built at a cost of Rs 2,035 crore, NCI is the largest investment by the Government of India in a single hospital project and holds the unique distinction of being one of the mega healthcare projects to be completed in a record time of 3 years, he added.
Nadda said that as part of the vision of Pm Modi to have an AIIMS in every state, AIIMS Rewari (at village Manethi), announced in the Interim Budget Speech of 2019-20 will be 22nd AIIMS to come up in the country and the first in Haryana. The site for this AIIMS has already been finalised at Manethi in Rewari, Haryana. Like other AIIMS in the country, the AIIMS announced for Rewari will also be set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). This will be a greenfield project for which funds have been given separately by the Government of India. The proposed AIIMS will be built at the cost of Rs 1,299 crores on 223 acre of land, according to a PIB release.