Lok Sabha Question No. 923 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-03
Subject: Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 923 TO BE ANSWERED ON 3 rd  DECEMBER, 2021

## MEDICAL COLLEGES

## 923.  SHRIMATI RANJANBEN DHANANJAY BHATT:

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

- a) whether the Government is considering to open Medical Colleges and PG Colleges in every  district  of  the  country,  if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State/UT-wise/district-wise particularly in Gujarat;
- b) if not, the reasons therefor; and
- c) the name of the districts where colleges are proposed to be opened in next two years?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## (DR BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) to (c) To meet the shortage of human resource in health, 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. Further, no further proposals are under consideration. The details are at Annexure.

Further, Under Central Sector Scheme for setting up of new AIIMS, 22 AIIMS have been approved. Undergraduate courses have started in 18 AIIMS.

## Annexure

## 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, 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                                                                                                                                               |