Vijayawada, Sept. 7 -- Andhra Pradesh Minister for Tourism Kandula Durgesh today said that the new medical college buildings are being constructed under Public Private Participation mode to ensure they are completed expeditiously and dismissed opposition accusations that state-run medical colleges are being privatised.

In a release, Minister Durgesh said the PPP mode has been chosen to expedite the construction of medical college buildings and the Government will have their ownership once construction was completed, he clarified.

If the construction of medical college buildings was expedited, thousands of students could avail of medical education, he asserted. As many as 150 medical seats could be created additionally in each medical coll...