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Education Campus Changa (ECC) is all set to get private university status from the state government. The educational campus managed by
Shri Charotar Moti Sattavis Patidar Kelavani Mandal, which so far offers programmes in technical professions, has also chalked out a Rs 250-crore plan to enter into healthcare education and delivery system this year.

According to sources, ECC which has been waiting to become Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT) since its inception in 2000, is set to get state government’s nod during the monsoon session of state Assembly that ends in July.

ECC was set up on 100 acres of land in 2000 when it had started an institute with Rs 3 crore investment. So far, the trust Kelavani Mandal has already invested Rs 500 crore in five different institutes and an R&D centre that offers 14 programmes including engineering, pharmacy, MBA, MCA and applied sciences with nearly 3,000 students.

“The mandal has envisaged foundation of healthcare in two areas. One is healthcare education where we plan to establish institutes for teaching and research. Another is healthcare delivery where we plan to establish hospitals and hold camps for community health and start mobile clinics,” said ECC’s registrar Devang Joshi, adding that for this the mandal has earmarked 48 acres of land.

Initially, they will offer 110 seats, with 60 seats in BSc nursing and 50 seats in BSc physiotherapy.

“As of now, we plan to start with three institutes namely Charotar Institute of Nursing and Charotar Institute of Physiotherapy from July 2009 and Charotar Institute of Dental Sciences & Research by 2010. Hence, along with three independent colleges, initially a full-fledged hospital with 100 beds will be established as a separate entity. Gradually, the hospital capacity will be augmented to 400 beds and eventually to 500 beds facilitating start of MBBS programmes. All this would take shape with Rs 250 crore estimated investment,” said Joshi.

To initially kick off the BSc nursing and physiotherapy courses from this academic year, ECC has also entered into an agreement with two popular healthcare trusts of the region, including Jalaram Janseva Trust of Dharmaj and Mahagujarat Hospital of Nadiad where students enrolled in BSc nursing and Bachelors in Physiotherapy (BPT) will be given training in hospitals managed by the two trusts.

ECC has handed over the task of designing the upcoming institutes to architect Bimal Patel, who has designed the Sabarmati Riverfront project.

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