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Foundation stone of Kalpana Chawla medical college laid
Sunday November 18, 2012 09:40:09 PM,
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Karnal (Haryana): Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Sunday laid the
foundation stone of a medical college being set up in the memory
of late Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla in her hometown
Karnal, 130 km from Chandigarh.
The Rs.650-crore super-specialty Kalpana Chawla Government Medical
College would have a 500-bed hospital, out-patient department,
maternity ward, emergency care, nursing college, auditorium,
animal house and other facilities, Hooda said.
The state government has provided Rs.105.5 crore in the current
financial year to the medical college.
Spread over 43 acres, the college building and other premises are
expected to be ready in 25 months. The college will offer 100 MBBS
seats.
Chawla, the first woman of Indian origin to go into space as a
NASA astronaut, died February 2003 when the Columbia space shuttle
bringing her and six other astronauts back from space
disintegrated on re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
She had earlier gone on another space flight aboard the same space
shuttle Columbia as a mission specialist in 1997.
Chawla studied at Tagore Public school in Karnal before joining
the Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh for an aeronautical
engineering degree. She later went to the United States for higher
studies and joined the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
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