Lok Sabha Question No. 1100 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-22
Subject: Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Ramesh Chandra Majhi, R.K. Singh Patel, Khan Saumitra

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1100 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 22 nd  JULY, 2022

## 'MEDICAL COLLEGES'

## 1100. SHRI. RAMESH CHANDRA MAJHI SHRI R.K. SINGH PATEL SHRI SAUMITRA KHAN:

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

- (a)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  establish  new  Government  Medical  Colleges  in  the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise including Odisha, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh;
- (c)  whether  the  Government  has  noted  that  the  absence  of  a  Government  Medical  colleges  in districts with limited medical facilities affects the health of the people as well as the education of medical aspirants; and

(d)  if  so,  the  details  of  the  steps  being  taken  by  the  Government  to  address  the  inadequacy  of medical facilities in such districts?

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

## ANSWER (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) to (d) 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 the country including Odisha, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh  in three phases and 72 are already functional. The details are at Annexure-I.

Further,  in  order  to  provide  medical  facilities  and  education  to  medical  aspirants  in various  parts  of  the  country,  the  Government  has  approved,  setting  up  of  22  AIIMS  and  75 projects of upgradation of GMCIs under PMSSY in various phases. The details are at AnnexureII.

The Government has taken various steps to further increase the availability of doctors in the country, particularly in underserved regions. The number of UG seats have increased from 51,348 before 2014 to 91927 seats as on date which is an increase of 79%.The numbers of PG seats have increased by 93% from 31,185 seats before 2014 to 60202 seats .

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

| Sl. No         | State/UT          | No. of college s   | 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, ShriGanganagar, 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                                                                                                                                              |

## Establishment of 22 new AIIMS and Government Medical Colleges and Institutes approved for upgradation under PMSSY

|   S. No. | State          | AIIMS             | Name of the GMC/ Institute upgraded                   |
|----------|----------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh | AIIMS Mangalagiri | SVIMS Tirupati                                        |
|        2 |                |                   | Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada                |
|        3 |                |                   | Govt Medical College, Anantapur                       |
|        4 | Assam          | AIIMS, Guwahati   | Guwahati Medical College, Guwahati                    |
|        5 |                |                   | Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh                      |
|        6 | Bihar          | AIIMS, Patna      | Srikrishna Medical College, Muzaffarpur               |
|        7 |                |                   | Govt Medical College, Darbhanga                       |
|        8 |                | AIIMS, Darbhanga  | PMCH Patna                                            |
|        9 |                |                   | GMCGaya                                               |
|       10 |                |                   | GMCBhagalpur                                          |
|       11 |                |                   | IGIMS, Patna                                          |
|       12 | Chhattisgarh   | AIIMS, Raipur     | GMCBilaspur                                           |
|       13 |                |                   | GMCJagdalpur                                          |
|       14 | Delhi          |                   | UCMS-GTBH                                             |
|       15 | Goa            |                   | Goa Medical College, Panaji                           |
|       16 | Gujarat        | AIIMS, Rajkot     | BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad                         |
|       17 |                |                   | Govt Medical College, Rajkot                          |
|       18 |                |                   | GMCSurat                                              |
|       19 |                |                   | GMCBhavnagar                                          |
|       20 | Haryana        | AIIMS, Manethi    | PGIMS Rohtak                                          |
|       21 | Himachal       | AIIMS, Bilaspur   | Rajendra Prasad Govt. Medical College, Tanda          |
|       22 | Pradesh        |                   | Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla                 |
|       23 | Jammu&         | AIIMS, Jammu      | Jammu Medical College                                 |
|       24 | Kashmir        | AIIMS, Kashmir    | Srinagar Medical College                              |
|       25 | Jharkhand      | AIIMS, Deoghar    | Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, (RIMS) Ranchi |
|       26 |                |                   | Patliputra Medical College, Dhanbad                   |
|       27 | Karnataka      |                   | Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore                  |
|       28 |                |                   | Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellary    |
|       29 |                |                   | Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli        |
|       30 | Kerala         |                   | Trivandrum Medical College                            |
|       31 |                |                   | Kozhikode Medical College, Kozhikode                  |
|       32 |                |                   | Govt TD Medical College, Alappuzha                    |
|       33 |                |                   | SCTIMST, Trivandrum                                   |
|       34 | Madhya Pradesh | AIIMS Bhopal      | Shyam Shah Medical College, Rewa                      |
|       35 |                |                   | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College,          |

|    |               |                  | Jabalpur                                                          |
|----|---------------|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 36 |               |                  | GR Medical College, Gwalior                                       |
| 37 |               |                  | GMC Indore                                                        |
| 38 | Maharashtra   | AIIMS, Nagpur    | GMC, Mumbai                                                       |
| 39 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Nagpur                                      |
| 40 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Aurangabad                                  |
| 41 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Latur                                       |
| 42 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Akola                                       |
| 43 |               |                  | Shri Vasantrao Naik Govt Medical College, Yavatmal                |
| 44 | Odisha        | AIIMS,           | MKCG Medical College, Berhampur                                   |
| 45 |               | Bhubaneswar      | VSS Medical College, Burla                                        |
| 46 |               |                  | GMCCuttack                                                        |
| 47 | Punjab        | AIIMS, Bathinda  | Govt. Medical College Amritsar                                    |
| 48 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Patiala                                     |
| 49 | Rajasthan     | AIIMS, Jodhpur   | SP Medical College, Bikaner                                       |
| 50 |               |                  | RNT Medical College, Udaipur                                      |
| 51 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Kota                                        |
| 52 |               |                  | GMCJaipur                                                         |
| 53 | Tamil Nadu    | AIIMS, Madurai   | Govt. Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem                 |
| 54 |               |                  | Rajaji Govt. Medical College, Madurai                             |
| 55 |               |                  | Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur                              |
| 56 |               |                  | Tirunelveli Medical College, Tirunelveli                          |
| 57 | Telangana     | AIIMS, Bibinagar | NIMS Hyderabad                                                    |
| 58 |               |                  | Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Adilabad              |
| 59 |               |                  | Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal                                |
| 60 | Tripura       |                  | Agartala Govt Medical College, Tripura                            |
| 61 | Uttar Pradesh | AIIMS, Raebareli | Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow |
| 62 |               | AIIMS, Gorakhpur | Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi               |
| 63 |               |                  | Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, AMU, Aligarh      |
| 64 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Jhansi                                      |
| 65 |               |                  | Govt Medical College, Gorakhpur                                   |
| 66 |               |                  | MLN Medical College, Allahabad                                    |
| 67 |               |                  | LLR Medical College, Meerut                                       |
| 68 |               |                  | IMS BHU, Varanasi                                                 |
| 69 |               |                  | GMCAgra                                                           |
| 70 |               |                  | GMCKanpur                                                         |
| 71 |               |                  | RIO, IMS-BHU, Varanasi                                            |
| 72 | West Bengal   | AIIMS, Kalyani   | Kolkata Medical College                                           |

| 73   |             |                  | BS Medical College, Bankura                        |
|------|-------------|------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
| 74   |             |                  | Govt. Medical College, Malda                       |
| 75   |             |                  | North Bengal Medical College, Siliguri, Darjeeling |
|      | Uttarakhand | AIIMS, Rishikesh |                                                    |