Lok Sabha Question No. 4869 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-04-01
Subject: Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Balak Nath, Sunil Kumar Singh, Ranjeetsingh Naik Nimbalkar, Parbatbhai Savabhai Patel, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya, Arun Sao

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4869 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE1 st  APRIL, 2022

## MEDICAL COLLEGES

## †4869. SHRI BALAK NATH:

SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

SHRI RANJEETSINGH HINDURAO NAIK NIMBALKAR:

SHRI PARBATBHAI SAVABHAI PATEL:

SHRI PRADEEP KUMAR SINGH:

SHRI NARANBHAI KACHHADIYA:

SHRI ARUN SAO:

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

- (a) the  number  of  Government  and  private  medical  colleges  functioning  in  the  country, State/UT-wise and district-wise particularly Rajasthan;
- (b) whether  the  Government  had  announced  to  set  up  one  medical  college  for  every  three districts/ Parliamentary Constituencies and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the  number  of  medical  colleges  required  to  be  set  up  in  view  of  of  the  said  decision, State/UT-wise details thereof;
- (d) whether  the  Government  is  implementing  any  scheme  to  set  up  new  medical  colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals under the centrally sponsored scheme and if so, the number of medical colleges set up under the said scheme so far, State/UT-wise; and
- (e) the time by which medical colleges are proposed to be set up in the aspirational districts including  Chatra  and  Latehar  districts  of  Jharkhand,  MadhaLok  Sabha  Constituency  of Maharashtra,  Araria  district  of  Bihar,  Alwar  and  Sikar  districts  of  Rajasthan  and  in  the backward districts of Gujarat and Bilaspur, Mungeli and Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi districts of Chhattisgarh under the said scheme along with details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) The State-wise details of Government and private medical colleges functioning in the country are at Annexure-I.

(b) to (e) The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare administers a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS)  for  'Establishment  of  new  Medical  Colleges  attached  with  existing  district/referral hospitals'  with  preference  to  underserved  areas  and  aspirational  districts,  where  there  is  no existing Government or private medical college. Under the Scheme, 157 new medical colleges have been approved in three phases and 71 are already functional. The details are at Annexure-II. Out of 157 sites, 40 are in aspirational districts. The details are at Annexure-III.

Under  the  above  Scheme,  all  States/UTs  were  requested  to  submit  proposals  to  the Ministry under the Scheme, Medical colleges have been sanctioned at Alwar and Sikar.However, no proposal has been received under this Scheme for establishment of new medical colleges at Chatra, Latehar, MadhaLok Sabha Constituency, Araria, Bilaspur, Mungeli and Gaurela-PendraMarwahi  districts  from  the  respective  State  Governments.  Further,  all  75  medical  colleges approved under Phase-III of this Scheme have already been allocated.

## Annexure-I

## State-wise details of Government and Private medical colleges in the country in 2021-22

|   S.No. | Name of the State/UT    |   Number of Government Colleges |   Number of Private Colleges |   Total number of Colleges |
|---------|-------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------------|----------------------------|
|       1 | Andaman &Nicobar Island |                               1 |                            0 |                          1 |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh          |                              13 |                           18 |                         31 |
|       3 | Arunachal Pradesh       |                               1 |                            0 |                          1 |
|       4 | Assam                   |                               8 |                            0 |                          8 |
|       5 | Bihar                   |                              12 |                            8 |                         20 |
|       6 | Chandigarh              |                               1 |                            0 |                          1 |
|       7 | Chhattisgarh            |                               8 |                            4 |                         12 |
|       8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli     |                               1 |                            0 |                          1 |
|       9 | Delhi                   |                               8 |                            2 |                         10 |
|      10 | Goa                     |                               1 |                            0 |                          1 |
|      11 | Gujarat                 |                              17 |                           13 |                         30 |
|      12 | Haryana                 |                               5 |                            7 |                         12 |
|      13 | Himachal Pradesh        |                               6 |                            1 |                          7 |
|      14 | Jammu &Kashmir          |                               8 |                            1 |                          9 |
|      15 | Jharkhand               |                               7 |                            2 |                          9 |
|      16 | Karnataka               |                              19 |                           41 |                         60 |
|      17 | Kerala                  |                              10 |                           21 |                         31 |
|      18 | Madhya Pradesh          |                              14 |                            9 |                         23 |
|      19 | Maharashtra             |                              28 |                           31 |                         59 |
|      20 | Manipur                 |                               2 |                            1 |                          3 |
|      21 | Meghalaya               |                               1 |                            0 |                          1 |
|      22 | Mizoram                 |                               1 |                            0 |                          1 |
|      23 | Orissa                  |                               9 |                            4 |                         13 |
|      24 | Puducherry              |                               2 |                            7 |                          9 |
|      25 | Punjab                  |                               5 |                            6 |                         11 |
|      26 | Rajasthan               |                              17 |                            9 |                         26 |
|      27 | Sikkim                  |                               0 |                            1 |                          1 |
|      28 | Tamil Nadu              |                              37 |                           32 |                         69 |
|      29 | Telangana               |                              11 |                           23 |                         34 |
|      30 | Tripura                 |                               1 |                            1 |                          2 |
|      31 | Uttar Pradesh           |                              35 |                           32 |                         67 |
|      32 | Uttarakhand             |                               4 |                            2 |                          6 |
|      33 | West Bengal             |                              20 |                            7 |                         27 |

## Annexure-II

## Centrally Sponsored scheme for 'Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals'

## Approved medical colleges

| Sl. No         | State/UT          | No. of colleges   | Districts                                                                                     |
|----------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Phase-I (58)   | Phase-I (58)      | Phase-I (58)      | Phase-I (58)                                                                                  |
| 1              | A &NIslands       | 1                 | Port Blair                                                                                    |
| 2              | Arunachal Pradesh | 1                 | Naharlagun                                                                                    |
| 3              | Assam             | 4                 | Dhubri, Nagaon, North Lakhimpur, Diphu                                                        |
| 4              | Bihar             | 3                 | Purnia, Saran (Chhapara), Samastipur                                                          |
| 5              | Chhattisgarh      | 2                 | Rajnandgaon, Sarguja                                                                          |
| 6              | Himachal Pradesh  | 3                 | Chamba, Hamirpur, Nahan (Sirmour)                                                             |
| 7              | Haryana           | 1                 | Bhiwani                                                                                       |
| 8              | Jharkhand         | 3                 | Dumka, Hazaribagh, Palamu (Daltonganj)                                                        |
| 9              | Jammu &Kashmir    | 5                 | Anantnag, Baramulla, Rajouri, Doda, Kathua                                                    |
| 10             | Madhya Pradesh    | 7                 | Datia, Khandwa, Ratlam, Shahdol, Vidisha, Chindwara, Shivpuri                                 |
| 11             | Maharashtra       | 1                 | Gondia                                                                                        |
| 12             | Meghalaya         | 1                 | West Garo Hills (Tura)                                                                        |
| 13             | Mizoram           | 1                 | Falkawn                                                                                       |
| 14             | Nagaland          | 1                 | Naga Hospital (Kohima)                                                                        |
| 15             | Odisha            | 5                 | Balasore, Baripada (Mayurbhanj), Bolangir, Koraput, Puri                                      |
| 16             | Punjab            | 1                 | SAS Nagar                                                                                     |
| 17             | Rajasthan         | 7                 | Barmer, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Churu, Dungarpur, Pali, Sikar                                    |
| 18             | Uttar Pradesh     | 5                 | Basti, Faizabad, Firozabad, Shahjahanpur, Bahraich                                            |
| 19             | Uttarakhand       | 1                 | Almora                                                                                        |
| 20             | West Bengal       | 5                 | Birbhum (Rampur Hat), Cooch behar, Diamond harbour, Purulia, Raiganj (North Dinajpur)         |
| Phase -II (24) | Phase -II (24)    | Phase -II (24)    | Phase -II (24)                                                                                |
| 1              | Bihar             | 5                 | Sitamarhi, Jhanjharpur, Siwan, Buxar, Jamui                                                   |
| 2              | Jharkhand         | 2                 | Koderma, Chaibasa (Singhbhum)                                                                 |
| 3              | Madhya Pradesh    | 1                 | Satna                                                                                         |
| 4              | Odisha            | 1                 | Jajpur                                                                                        |
| 5              | Rajasthan         | 1                 | Dholpur                                                                                       |
| 6              | Uttar Pradesh     | 8                 | Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar (Domariyaganj), Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur |
| 7              | West Bengal       | 5                 | Barasat, Uluberia, Arambagh, Jhargram, Tamluk                                                 |
| 8              | Sikkim            | 1                 | Gangtok                                                                                       |
| Phase-III (75) | Phase-III (75)    | Phase-III (75)    | Phase-III (75)                                                                                |
| 1              | Andhra Pradesh    | 3                 | Piduguralla, Paderu, Machilipatnam                                                            |
| 2              | Assam             | 1                 | Kokrajhar                                                                                     |
| 3              | Chhattisgarh      | 3                 | Korba, Mahasamund, Kanker                                                                     |
| 4              | Gujarat           | 5                 | Narmada, Navsari, Panchmahal, Porbandar, Morbi                                                |

|   5 | Jammu &Kashmir   |   2 | Udhampur, Handwara (Distt. Kupwara)                                                                                                                     |
|-----|------------------|-----|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   6 | Karnataka        |   4 | Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgiri, Chikkaballapura                                                                                                        |
|   7 | Ladakh           |   1 | Leh                                                                                                                                                     |
|   8 | Madhya Pradesh   |   6 | Rajgarh, Mandla, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Sheopur, Singrauli                                                                                                  |
|   9 | Maharashtra      |   1 | Nandurbar                                                                                                                                               |
|  10 | Manipur          |   1 | Churachandpur                                                                                                                                           |
|  11 | Nagaland         |   1 | Mon                                                                                                                                                     |
|  12 | Odisha           |   1 | Kalahandi                                                                                                                                               |
|  13 | Punjab           |   2 | Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur                                                                                                                                  |
|  14 | Rajasthan        |  15 | Alwar, Baran, Bansawara, Chittorgarh, Jaisalmer, Karauli, Nagaur, Shri Ganganagar, Sirohi, Bundi, SawaiMadhopur, Tonk, Hanumangarh, Jhunjhunu, Dausa    |
|  15 | Uttarakhand      |   3 | Rudrapur (Distt. Udham Singh Nagar), Pithoragarh, Haridwar                                                                                              |
|  16 | Uttar Pradesh    |  14 | Bijnaur, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur, LakhimpurKheri, Chandauli, Bulandshahar, Sonbhadra, Pilibhit, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kaushambi, Amethi |
|  17 | Tamil Nadu       |  11 | Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Ramanathapuram, Namakkal, Dindigul, Virudhunagar, Krishnagiri, Tiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Ariyalur, Kallakurichi                     |
|  18 | West Bengal      |   1 | Jalpaiguri                                                                                                                                              |

## Annexure-III

## Details of medical colleges approved in Aspirational Districts (AD)

|   S. No. | Name of the State   |    | Name of the District                                                    |
|----------|---------------------|----|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh      |  1 | Paderu (Vishakhapatnam)                                                 |
|        2 | Assam               |  1 | Dhubri                                                                  |
|        3 | Bihar               |  3 | Purnia, Sitamarhi, Jamui                                                |
|        4 | Chhattisgarh        |  4 | Rajnandgaon, Korba, Mahasamund, Kanker                                  |
|        5 | Gujarat             |  1 | Narmada                                                                 |
|        6 | Himachal Pradesh    |  1 | Chamba                                                                  |
|        7 | Jammu &Kashmir      |  2 | Baramulla, Handwara (Distt. Kupwara)                                    |
|        8 | Jharkhand           |  4 | Dumka, Hazaribagh, Palamu (Daltonganj), Chaibasa (Singhbhum)            |
|        9 | Karnataka           |  1 | Yadgiri                                                                 |
|       10 | Madhya Pradesh      |  4 | Khandwa, Vidisha, Rajgarh, Singrauli                                    |
|       11 | Maharashtra         |  1 | Nandurbar                                                               |
|       12 | Odisha              |  3 | Bolangir, Koraput, Kalahandi                                            |
|       13 | Rajasthan           |  5 | Dholpur, Baran, Jaisalmer, Karauli, Sirohi                              |
|       14 | Uttarakhand         |  2 | Haridwar, Rudrapur(Distt. Udham Singh Nagar)                            |
|       15 | Uttar Pradesh       |  5 | Bahraich, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar (Domariyaganj), Chandauli, Sonbhadra |
|       16 | Tamil Nadu          |  2 | Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar                                            |