Maninagar: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is planning to name its AMC MET medical college after Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The new name suggested for the college given by the AMC standing committee will be Narendra Modi Medical College. A proposal in this regard was brought to the committee meeting on Thursday.
AMC MET College is run by AMC Medical Education Trust at the LG hospital compound in Maninagar. It was the assembly constituency of the then chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi.
On its 170 seats, the medical college currently offers postgraduate courses. The executive meeting of AMC was held on September 14, in which a decision to rename the medical college as Narendra Modi Medical College was unanimously taken in the meeting.
The proposal got acceptance from the standing committee meeting today.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of his birthday on September 17, will release cheetahs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.