📋 Tender Overview
Scope : Establishment of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology (SMST) at IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur on announced the signing of an MoU with the Anil and Kumud Bansal Foundation to support the establishment of the School of Medical Sciences and Technology (SMST) at IIT Kanpur. Anil Bansal is the proprietor of the Anil and Kumud Bansal Foundation and is an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur. Under the MoU, the Anil and Kumud Bansal Foundation pledges to donate an amount of US$2.5 million for the establishment of the School. The School is now being named as Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology.
The medical school at IIT-Kanpur will be completed in two phases. Phase I of the project will include setting up a 500-bed Super-Specialty Hospital, academic block, residential/hostel, and service block with a total built-up area of approximately 8,10,000 square feet. Phase I will also include setting up Centers of Excellence (CoE) for pursuing R&D activities in futuristic medicine. This phase is tentatively planned to be completed over the next three to five years. The Phase II of the project will see the hospital capacity grow to 1,000 beds, expansion in clinical departments/centers, research areas, the inclusion of paramedical disciplines, alternative medicine, hospital management, sports medicine, and public health programs. The Phase II is planned to be completed over a period of 7-10 years.
