Lok Sabha Question No. 3408 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-17
Subject: Government Medical Colleges attached with district hospitals
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Dhal Singh Bisen, Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3408 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 17 th  DECEMBER, 2021

## GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGES ATTACHED WITH DISTRICT HOSPITALS

## 3408.     DR. DHAL SINGH BISEN: SHRI SAPTAGIRI SANKAR ULAKA:

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

- (a) whether the Government has taken a decision to set  up  Government  Medical  Colleges attached  with district hospitals in each district of the country, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the    detail    of    medical    colleges    sanctioned/proposed    to    be    set    up    in    aspirational districts in  the  country,  State-wise  including  district-wise  in Odisha;
- (c) whether    the    Government    proposes    to    set    up  Medical  College  in  Rayagada  district, Odisha and if so, the  present  status  thereof;  and
- (d) the details  of  state's share  in  the said  project and steps required to complete the same with timelines of its implementation?

## ANSWER

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

(a) The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare administers a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for  'Establishment  of  new  Medical  Colleges  attached  with  existing  district/referral  hospitals'. Under the Scheme, 157 new medical colleges have been approved in three phases and 70 are already  functional.  The  details  are  at  Annexure-I.    Further,  under  Central  Sector  Scheme  for setting up of new AIIMS, 22 AIIMS have been approved. Undergraduate courses have started in 18 AIIMS.

(b)  Out of 157 sites, 40 are in aspirational districts. The details are at Annexure-II.

(c)  &  (d)  Under  Phase-III  of  the  above  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme,  all  States/UTs  were requested to submit proposals along with Detailed Project Report (DPR) for consideration by the Ministry. No proposal was received from the State Government of Odisha for establishment of a medical college at Rayagada district.

## Annexure-I

## 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        | Phase-I           | Phase-I           | Phase-I                                                                                       |
| 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, Sawai Madhopur, Tonk, Hanumangarh, Jhunjhunu, Dausa    |
|  15 | Uttarakhand    |   3 | Rudrapur (Distt. Udham Singh Nagar), Pithoragarh, Haridwar                                                                                               |
|  16 | Uttar Pradesh  |  14 | Bijnaur, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, 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                                                                                                                                               |

## 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                                            |

## Annexure-II