Centre sanctioned Rs 140 cr to set up Ayurveda medical college in Tripura: CM
Agartala (PTI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday said the Centre has sanctioned Rs 140 crore for setting up an Ayurveda medical college and homeopathy medical college in the state.
At present, the northeastern state has three medical colleges, including the Agartala Government Medical College.
“The Ministry of Ayush, Government of India has sanctioned Rs 140 cr for establishing Ayurveda Medical College and Homoeopathy Medical College in Tripura,” Saha said in a Facebook post.
A high-level meeting was held to finalise the roadmap and initiate steps to start the colleges from the next academic session, the CM said.
“Grateful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda ji, and Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH Shri Prataprao Yadav ji, for significant support to strengthen healthcare and education in the northeastern state,” Saha added.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
