He said he will also continue to pressurise the Central government to provide more seats for post graduation studies at the RIMS.
As a part of foundation day function the chief minister also inaugurated the newly constructed main gate of RIMS as well as opened a medical exhibition which will continue till September 17.
Besides the chief minister, other dignitaries who attended the function were Ph. Parijat state minister for health, Dr. Mukul Singh the deputy chief minister of Meghalaya, Dr. M. Mahendra Singh retired Prof. and H.O.D. of physiology, RIMS, Dr. Th. Tomba Singh the retired Prof. and H.O.D. of pharmacology, RIMS.
The chief minister who also gave away the graduation certificates to medical students noted the inadequate number of PG seats at RIMS. This was hampering the RIMS from coming up to the standard of others institutes of the country and in this regard the state government has been pursuading the Central government to intervene.
He said the state government is having a shortfall of more than 400 doctors and in order to meet this shortage the state government would be recruiting more than 300 doctors through Manipur Public Service Commission very soon.
And RIMS being the premier institute of the entire North East as well as for country it is the duty of every citizen and the students who are pursuing their medical studies to maintain quality and standard of the institute he said.
"We need to join hands to take the heritage of the institute to higher levels to compete with others medical institutes of the country" the chief minister said.
Attending as a special guest Dr. Mukul Sangma the deputy chief minister of Meghalaya and who was also a student of this institute also stressed that the shortfall of the PG seats is the only hurdle preventing the institute from soaring up.
He said he hopes that the Central government along with the state government would soon make the decision to providing more PG seats for RIMS.
He also suggested that the government could think of generating revenue for the intake of the doctors to meet the shortage of doctors at the institute.
He further noted that today the RIMS is standing tall and is in a position the entire North East people can place their trust on. Every student who pass out from RIMS should be proud that they are products of the RIMS, he said.
The people of the state and the students need to give all their efforts to take the institute to the very top he said.
Giving away the annual report, the director of RIMS L. Fimate maintained that RIMS has grown steadily since its birth in 1972.
It is now an institution of nearly 2000 employees with an annual outlay of more than rupees 70 crores and the institute is fully funded by the ministry of health and family welfare, Government of India, but continues to be autonomous, maintaining its regional character, he said.
The institute is committed to implement national health related schemes. During the year under report, the institute organized and conducted training courses in the various departments under National Health Rural Mission and the institute also played a leading role in combating HIV/AIDS, the director said.
"The RIMS is one of the 12 national reference laboratories in the country. ART centre of RIMS has been declared by NACO as centre of excellence and it is one of the four centres of its kind" he added.
RIMS also provides post graduate courses in Immuno Haematology abd Transfusion Medicine has been started in the current session making the RIMS the seventh such centre in the country, he said.
In all 91 students pursuing the medical studies in the institute received graduation certificate in today`s function. The RIMS newsletter, Journal of Medical Society (JMS) and Remedy was also released.
The day wound up with a cultural programme.