Officials gears up for diamond jubilee celebrations of KMC

Kurnool: The authorities are gearing up for diamond jubilee celebrations of Kurnool Medical College (KMC) here. The year-long celebrations which started in July last year will end this June.

Prior to six months of celebrations, the authorities are making elaborate arrangements to conduct the celebrations on a grand scale. Kurnool Medical College is one of the famous colleges apart from other medical colleges in both Telugu speaking States. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend and address the celebrations.

Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam had participated as the chief guest for college’s golden jubilee celebrations in 2008. The medical college has a track record of having veterans as teaching faculty and under whose guidance medical treatment was extended to famous personalities like AICC President Sonia Gandhi.

Speaking to The Hans India, college principal Dr GS Ram Prasad said that the college will complete its 60th year in June, 2017. “We are making preparations from now onwards to celebrate diamond jubilee function with pomp and gaiety,” he added.

On the occasion of the diamond jubilee celebrations, Ram Prasad said the veteran alumnus of the college would be invited to highlight its history. He further stated that at the time of formation of Andhra state in October 1953, the government of Andhra decided to start a medical college in Rayalaseema region.

Medical college at Kurnool is the third one to be set up in AP. As the building was not ready in Kurnool, the then government had decided to admit 50 students of Kurnool Medical College at Guntur in July 1956.

When Andhra Pradesh was formed and the capital was shifted to Hyderabad from Kurnool the erstwhile secretariat buildings were handed over to medical college. The college was opened on July 21, 1957 by TT Krishnamachari, the then Union Finance Minister.

The doctors, who have graduated from KMC, are extending their services across the globe. Some of the doctors, who have excelled in their profession, are Dr S Pinakapani, Dr CRRM Reddy, Dr Sita Devi, Dr PSRK Haranath, Dr D Bhaskar Reddy, Dr B Sadasivudu and Dr N Ramachandra Rao. Besides, professors of this college, who are internationally famous for their academic excellence, are Dr Nageswara Reddy and Dr P Jagannath.

The college administration is planning to felicitate all the old students of this college during diamond jubilee celebrations.