President of India Droupadi Murmu will grace the convocation of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Nagpur on Wednesday at 11 am at the Institute’s auditorium. Murmu will also grace valediction ceremony of the 78th Batch of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of the National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) as chief guest at NADT campus to be held at 4.50 pm.

 

The ceremony at AIIMS will be graced by the presence of the Governor of Maharashtra, Jishnu Dev Varma; Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis; Union Minister of State for AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Prataprao Jadhav; President, AIIMS Nagpur, Dr Anant Pandhare; Executive Director and CEO, AIIMS Nagpur, Dr Prashant Joshi, along with other distinguished dignitaries, faculty members, graduating students, and their families. Degrees and gold medals will be conferred upon 129 MBBS, 29 MD/MS, 35 B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing, 5 M.Sc, and 12 Allied & Healthcare students, celebrating their academic accomplishments. The Institute currently operates with 940 functional beds, including 110 ICU beds, with full occupancy reflecting the strong trust placed in its services. It caters to an average of 3,500 to 4,000 outpatients daily and performs 40 to 50 major surgeries each day. To date, the Institute has treated more than 26 lakh outpatients and over 1,12,000 inpatients, and has conducted more than 43,000 major surgeries, demonstrating its rapidly expanding clinical capacity and significant contribution to public healthcare in this region.

 

The Institute has been awarded Full NABH Accreditation, with one of the widest scopes of services among public hospitals, encompassing major and super specialties, transplant services, and critical care, and is the first AIIMS to secure NABH accreditation for its Institutional Ethics Committee. Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, inaugurated Central India’s first Government-sector ID Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Laboratory and a Blood Irradiator Unit, alongside the establishment of an Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) facility, making it the first Government hospital in Maharashtra and Central India to offer such advanced reproductive services.

 

The ceremony at NADT is expected to be attended by Governor of Maharashtra Jishnu Dev Varma; Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis; Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary; and other senior officers of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The event marks the completion of the 16-month Induction Training Programme of 130 Officer Trainees of the 78th Batch of the IRS. NADT is the premier training institution for Group ‘A’ officers of the Income Tax Department, equipped with modern training and residential facilities that support comprehensive professional development.