kochi theres hardly much sense in the way our government functions and much less its decisions the latest instance of how serious our political masters are regarding the business at hand can be gleaned from the tuesdays government order on the takeover of cochin medical college cmc after constituting many committees to study various aspects of taking over the cmc it has now asked another committee which will be constituted by the finance department to look into whether the government should compensate the cooperative academy for professional excellence cape which runs the college this has been done after chief minister oommen chandy said that no compensation would be given to cape on december 11 soon after the cabinet gave its approval for takeover the compensation part in the order has come as a surprise as the government has categorically said it was taking over the college along with its liabilities which according to a recent estimate are double its assets the report on assets and liabilities of the college has been prepared by district collector p i sheik pareeth as per the report the college has assets worth rs 50 crore and liabilities amounting to almost rs 100 crore the worse part is that the government had handed over 63 acres of land in kalamassery to cape when the medical college was started in 2000 and its only taking the land back and the question of compensation does not arise so it is not clear why another committee has been entrusted to decide on whether cape would have to be compensated the government had taken over unutilized land given to hmt in kalamassery and distributed it to agencies such as cape and kinfra the land was handed over to cape without charging them said k r viswambharan the then district collector of ernakulam this was done since public would get tertiary healthcare from the medical college free of cost soon he said meanwhile the demand completing the procedures for setting up a cancer institute in cmc campus has intensified cpi ml district committee has asked the government to take urgent measures for starting the cancer institute soon chief minister has convened a meeting of all mlas and mps from the ernakulam district to discuss measures to be taken for starting the cancer institute