Visakhapatnam :

The Maharajah Alak Narayan Society established by the royal family of Vizianagaram will establish a 300-bed hospital and medical college on 40 acres in Vizianagaram. The funds for the development and promotion of the hospital and college will be raised with the help of the Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (Vuda) which has partnered with the MANSAS trust to auction certain properties owned by the trust in Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam.

Addressing media persons here on Friday, Vuda vice-chairman, M Babu Rao Naidu, said, “Around 232.5 acres of urban, sub-urban and rural real estate owned by the MANSAS Trust has been identified in the Vuda zone and surveyed for auction. Of this, 230 acres is in Visakhapatnam district alone and the remaining 2.5 acres in Vizianagaram. We will go for e-auction to ensure that all the loop holes are plugged.”

Vuda authorities said the auction process would begin from September 21 with a 2.5 acre plot of land in Vizianagaram town. According to Vuda sources, the MANSAS Trust is the richest land owner in the state, owning as it does more than 13,000 acres of urban and rural real estate in the four north coastal districts alone. The sources further disclosed that all of it was once the personal property of the Vizianagaram royal family that was handed over to the trust, which is still run by the royal family.

MANSAS representatives said that all the norms specified would be followed in building the medical college and hospital. They further pointed out that the trust runs some of the oldest educational institutions in the state and the trustees have for long been proposing the idea of developing a modern hospital and a medical college.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Visakhapatnam / TNN / September 05th, 2015