Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital (Acquisition and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act,1977
Act No : 34
Section : SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL (ACQUISITION) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT, 1977
34 of 1977
3rd December, 1977
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS In 1912, Lady Hardinge collected funds for starting a medical college for women, to be staffed entirely by women, with a hospital for women and children attached to it in commemoration of the visit to Delhi, in 1911, of the Queen of England. The College started functioning in 1916 and was managed by an ad hoc committee. The management of the College and Hospital by the committee proved unsatisfactory and, in 1927, the College and Hospital were taken over by the Association for the Control and Management of the Lady Hardinge Medical College for Women and Hospital for Women and Children, Delhi, a society, registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, which set up a governing body to manage the College and Hospital. In 1953, on the application, and with the consent of the Association, the Central Government settled a scheme under section 5of the Charitable Endowments Act, 1890, to manage the affairs of the College and Hospital.
Under this scheme, the main purpose for which the Association was established was retained intact, but the management of the College and Hospital was vested in a Board of Administration and the Association became defunct. Almost the entire recurring and non-recurring expenditure in relation to the College and Hospital are, from the outset, met by the Central Government through grants-in-aid, the funds originally collected having been spent on the construction of some buildings and the endowment of some scholarships.
2. The Kalavati Saran Children's Hospital, New Delhi, was established in 1956 by the Central Government in the campus of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital from the sale proceeds of the properties assigned to the Central Government by Shri Ashok Saran and Shri Raghbir Saran by two Indentures executed by them separately on the 8th day of June, 1954. This Hospital provides teaching facilities to the medical students of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and deals with cases of all branches of paediatrics, including diagnosis and treatment in out-patient as well as in-patient departments. The facilities provided in this Hospital are complementary to the facilities provided in the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital. It is being managed by a Board of Management, constituted by the Central Government. The entire recurring and non-recurring expenditure in relation to the Kalavati Saran Children's Hospital also is met by the Central Government.
3. The Inspectors, appointed by the Medical Council of India and the University of Delhi, have, from time to time, pointed out the need to improve the standards of, and the facilities for, medical education provided by the Lady Hardinge Medical College. The present set up of these institutions with two separate Boards for the administration of their affairs is also proving cumbersome in their efficient day-to-day management in a coordinated manner. These institutions are situated in the heart of the capital and have the potential to set a very high standard in the spheres medical education and patient care. It would be in the interests of the medical students and the public to develop the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and the Kalavati Saran Children's Hospital complex into a centre of excellence for imparting medical education to women and for providing advanced health care for women and children. It is, therefore, necessary to provide for the administration of that College and Hospital as well as the Kalavati Saran Children's Hospital as Government College and Hospitals and to acquire the assets of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital for the said purpose.
4. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objects.-Gaz. of India, 1-8-1977, Pt. II, S. 2, Ext., p. 539.
An Act to provide for the acquisition of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and for the Management of the Kalavati Saran Hospital, with a view to ensuring better facilities for the higher medical education for women and medical facilities for women and children in the Union territory of Delhi and for matters connected or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
(1) This Act may be called the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital (Acquisition) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1977.
(2) It shall come into force on such1date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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