Lok Sabha Question No. 100 (STARRED), answered on 2019-02-08
Subject: Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA, LAXMAN GILUWA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 100 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 8 TH FEBRUARY ,2019 MEDICAL COLLEGES

## †*100. SHRI MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA:

## SHRI LAXMAN GILUWA:

Will  the  Minister  of  HEALTH  AND  FAMILY  WELFARE be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether the Government has identified certain places to set up medical c in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT and locat ion - wise;
- (c) the details of the norms/criteria fixed to set up medical colleges; and
- (d) whether the said norms are being followed and if not, the reasons therefo

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA)

- (a)to( d) : A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 100* FOR 8 TH FEBRUARY , 20 19

(a)  &  (b) The  Ministry  of  Health  &  Family  Welfare  administers a  Centrally Sponsored Scheme for 'Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral  hospitals'.  82  new  Medical  Colleges  are  to  be  established  under  the scheme in two phases. The fund sharing ratio between the Central Governme t and States is 90:10 for NE/Special Category States and 60:40 for other States.

Under Phase - I of the Scheme, 58 districts in 20 States/UT s have been identified and  approved.  Total  cost  of  establishment  of  one  Medical  College  is  Rs.18 . Funds to the tune of Rs.7325.10 crore have been released to the State/UT Gov for the approved medical colleges under the Scheme. 22 medical colleges have functional. Details are at Annexure - I .

Further, under Phase - II  of  this  Scheme,    24  n ew medical colleges in 8 States have been identified. The total cost of establishment of one Medical College Phase  is  Rs.250  crore.  The  State  Governments  have  identified  the  locat Challenge mode. Out of 24 medical colleges, 17 have been a pproved till date and funds to the tune of Rs.850 crore have been released to the State Governments. Det Annexure - II .

(c) & (d) The norms/criteria for identification of Districts under Phase - I of the Scheme were  (i)  District  Hospitals/referral hospital s with  bed  strength  of  200  or  more, (ii) District/Referral hospitals of the districts where there is no medic (iii) Preference to underserved areas. Phase - II  of  the  scheme  was  launched  with  the objective  to  ensure  availability  of  one  medical  college  in  every  3  Par Constituencies and one Government medical college in each State on Challenge This cri teria has been followed to identify the locations.

The  permission  for  establishment  of  new  Medical  Colleges  is  granted college  is  found  compliant  in  the  assessment  conducted  by  the  Medical  Cou India (MCI) with the norms as prescribed under t he Regulations namely 'Establishment of Medical College Regulations, 1999' as per the provisions of section 10A of Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.

## Annexure - I

## - I of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Establishment

## List of districts approved under Phase of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals

| S. N o.   | State/UT          |    | Districts              |
|-----------|-------------------|----|------------------------|
| 1         | A & N Islands     |  1 | Port Blair             |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |  2 | Naharlagun             |
| 3         |                   |  3 | Dhubri                 |
| 3         |                   |  4 | Nagaon                 |
| 3         | Assam             |  5 | North Lakhimpur        |
| 3         |                   |  6 | Diphu                  |
| 4         |                   |  7 | Purnia                 |
| 4         | Bihar             |  8 | Saran (Chhapara)       |
| 4         |                   |  9 | Samastipur             |
| 5         |                   | 10 | Rajnandgaon            |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 11 | Sarguja                |
|           |                   | 12 | Chamba                 |
| 6         | Himachal Pradesh  | 13 | Hamirpur               |
|           |                   | 14 | Nahan ( Sirmour)       |
| 7         | Haryana           | 15 | Bhiwani                |
|           |                   | 16 | Dumka                  |
| 8         | Jharkhand         | 17 | Hazaribagh             |
|           |                   | 18 | Palamu (Daltonganj)    |
|           |                   | 19 | Anantnag               |
|           |                   | 20 | Baramulla              |
|           | Jammu & Kashmir   | 21 | Rajouri                |
| 9         |                   | 22 | Doda                   |
| 9         |                   | 23 | Kathua                 |
| 10        |                   | 24 | Datia                  |
| 10        |                   | 25 | Khandwa                |
|           |                   | 26 | Ratlam                 |
|           | Madhya Pradesh    | 27 | Shahdol                |
|           |                   | 28 | Vidisha                |
|           |                   | 29 | Chindwara              |
|           |                   | 30 | Shivpuri               |
| 11        | Maharashtra       | 31 | Gondia                 |
| 12        | Meghalaya         | 32 | West Garo Hills (Tura) |
| 13        | Mizoram           | 33 | Falkawn                |

|   14 | Nagaland      |   34 | Naga Hospital           |
|------|---------------|------|-------------------------|
|   15 | Odisha        |   35 | Balasore                |
|   15 | Odisha        |   36 | Baripada (Mayurbhanj)   |
|   15 | Odisha        |   37 | Bolangir                |
|   15 | Odisha        |   38 | Koraput                 |
|   15 | Odisha        |   39 | Puri                    |
|   16 | Punjab        |   40 | SAS Nagar               |
|   17 | Rajasthan     |   41 | Barmer                  |
|   17 | Rajasthan     |   42 | Bharatpur               |
|   17 | Rajasthan     |   43 | Bhilwara                |
|   17 | Rajasthan     |   44 | Churu                   |
|   17 | Rajasthan     |   45 | Dungarpur               |
|   17 | Rajasthan     |   46 | Pali                    |
|   17 | Rajasthan     |   47 | Sikar                   |
|   18 | Uttar Pradesh |   48 | Basti                   |
|   18 | Uttar Pradesh |   49 | Faizabad                |
|   18 | Uttar Pradesh |   50 | Firozabad               |
|   18 | Uttar Pradesh |   51 | Shahjahanpur            |
|   18 | Uttar Pradesh |   52 | Bahraich                |
|   19 | Uttarakhand   |   53 | Almora                  |
|   20 | West Bengal   |   54 | Birbhum (Rampur Hat)    |
|   20 | West Bengal   |   55 | Cooch behar             |
|   20 | West Bengal   |   56 | Diamond harbour         |
|   20 | West Bengal   |   57 | Purulia                 |
|   20 | West Bengal   |   58 | Raiganj, North Dinajpur |

## List of 24 medical colleges identified under Phase - IIof the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals

|   S.No. | State          |    | Location Selected by State Government   |
|---------|----------------|----|-----------------------------------------|
|       1 | Bihar          |  1 | Sitamarhi                               |
|       1 | Bihar          |  2 | Jhanjharpur                             |
|       1 | Bihar          |  3 | Siwan                                   |
|       1 | Bihar          |  4 | Buxar                                   |
|       1 | Bihar          |  5 | Jamui                                   |
|       2 | Jharkhand      |  6 | Koderma                                 |
|       2 | Jharkhand      |  7 | Chaibasa (Singhbhum)                    |
|       3 | Madhya Pradesh |  8 | Satna                                   |
|       4 | Odisha         |  9 | Jajpur                                  |
|       5 | Rajasthan      | 10 | Dholpur                                 |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 11 | Etah                                    |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 12 | Hardoi                                  |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 13 | Pratapgarh                              |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 14 | Fatehpur                                |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 15 | Siddharthnagar (Domariyaganj)           |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 16 | Deoria                                  |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 17 | Ghazipur                                |
|       6 | Uttar Pradesh  | 18 | Mirzapur                                |
|       7 | West Bengal    | 19 | Barasat                                 |
|       7 | West Bengal    | 20 | Uluberia                                |
|       7 | West Bengal    | 21 | Arambagh                                |
|       7 | West Bengal    | 22 | Jhargram                                |
|       7 | West Bengal    | 23 | Tamluk                                  |
|       8 | Sikkim         | 24 | Gangtok                                 |