Lok Sabha Question No. 3856 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-25
Subject: Setting up of Medical College
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Ramesh Bidhuri, Guman Singh Damor, Sougata Ray

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3856 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 25 th  MARCH, 2022

## SETTING UP OF MEDICAL COLLEGE

## 3856.      SHRI RAMESH BIDHURI: SHRI GUMAN SINGH DAMOR: PROF. SOUGATA RAY:

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

- (a) the criteria for setting up new medical colleges in the country;
- (b) the number of medical colleges set up during the last five years along with the number of seats approved in said colleges, State/UT-wise including Madhya Pradesh;
- (c) whether  academic  session  has  been  started  in  all  the  said  colleges,  if  not,  the  time  by which the same is likely to be started;
- (d) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  set  up  medical  colleges  in  every  district  in Government  and  Private  sectors  including  tribal  areas  particularly  in  Jhabua,  Madhya Pradesh;
- (e) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise including the time by which the said colleges are likely  to  be  set  up  and  if  not,  whether  the  Government  will  consider setting  up  of  said colleges; and
- (f) whether  the  Government  has  any  proposal  to  relax  the  minimum  marks  for  MBBS admission, if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a)          Minimum Requirements for Annual MBBS Admissions Regulations, 2020 of National Medical Commission (erstwhile Medical Council of  India)  stipulates  criteria  for  setting  up  of new medical colleges which indicates requirement of faculty, beds, infrastructure, etc.

(b)  &  (c)          The  State-wise  details  of  functional  medical  colleges  along  with  MBBS  seats available in the country in 2016-17 and in 2021-22 are at Annexure-I.

(d) & (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. No proposal  was  received  from  State  Government  of  Madhya  Pradesh  for  establishment  of  a medical college at Jhabua district. As per the Scheme guidelines, the State Government is the implementing agency and the planning, execution and commissioning of the project is done by the State Governments.

(f)          Graduate  Medical  Education  Regulations  of  National  Medical  Commission  (erstwhile Medical  Council  of  India)  provides  for  a  single  eligibility  cum  entrance  examination  namely 'National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS course' and minimum passing  marks  for  this  exam.  The  said  regulation  also  has  the  provision  for  lowering  the minimum  marks  by  the  Government  when  sufficient  number  of  candidates  belonging  to respective categories fail to secure prescribed minimum marks for any academic year. There is no such proposal.

## The State-wise detail of medical colleges along with MBBS seats available in the country in 2016-17 and in 2021-22

| S.No.   | Name of the State/UT    | 2016-17            | 2016-17    | 2021-22            | 2021-22    |
|---------|-------------------------|--------------------|------------|--------------------|------------|
| S.No.   | Name of the State/UT    | Number of Colleges | MBBS seats | Number of Colleges | MBBS Seats |
| 1       | Andaman &Nicobar Island | 1                  | 100        | 1                  | 100        |
| 2       | Andhra Pradesh          | 32                 | 4800       | 31                 | 5210       |
| 3       | Arunachal Pradesh       | -                  | -          | 1                  | 50         |
| 4       | Assam                   | 6                  | 726        | 8                  | 1100       |
| 5       | Bihar                   | 14                 | 1450       | 20                 | 2540       |
| 6       | Chandigarh              | 1                  | 100        | 1                  | 150        |
| 7       | Chhattisgarh            | 10                 | 1200       | 12                 | 1565       |
| 8       | Dadra &Nagar Haveli     | -                  | -          | 1                  | 150        |
| 9       | Delhi                   | 9                  | 1173       | 10                 | 1422       |
| 10      | Goa                     | 1                  | 150        | 1                  | 180        |
| 11      | Gujarat                 | 25                 | 3530       | 30                 | 5650       |
| 12      | Haryana                 | 10                 | 1250       | 12                 | 1660       |
| 13      | Himachal Pradesh        | 4                  | 450        | 7                  | 870        |
| 14      | Jammu &Kashmir          | 4                  | 500        | 9                  | 1085       |
| 15      | Jharkhand               | 3                  | 350        | 9                  | 880        |
| 16      | Karnataka               | 56                 | 8245       | 60                 | 9695       |
| 17      | Kerala                  | 33                 | 4050       | 31                 | 4205       |
| 18      | Madhya Pradesh          | 19                 | 2700       | 23                 | 3735       |
| 19      | Maharashtra             | 50                 | 7120       | 59                 | 9450       |
| 20      | Manipur                 | 2                  | 200        | 3                  | 375        |
| 21      | Meghalaya               | 1                  | 50         | 1                  | 50         |
| 22      | Mizoram                 | -                  | -          | 1                  | 100        |
| 23      | Orissa                  | 9                  | 1350       | 13                 | 2100       |
| 24      | Puducherry              | 9                  | 1350       | 9                  | 1530       |
| 25      | Punjab                  | 10                 | 1375       | 11                 | 1550       |
| 26      | Rajasthan               | 17                 | 2750       | 26                 | 4680       |
| 27      | Sikkim                  | 1                  | 100        | 1                  | 150        |
| 28      | Tamil Nadu              | 49                 | 6615       | 69                 | 10425      |
| 29      | Telangana               | 24                 | 3650       | 34                 | 5340       |
| 30      | Tripura                 | 2                  | 200        | 2                  | 225        |
| 31      | Uttar Pradesh           | 45                 | 6049       | 67                 | 8678       |
| 32      | Uttarakhand             | 7                  | 900        | 6                  | 825        |
| 33      | West Bengal             | 18                 | 2700       | 27                 | 4150       |

## 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                                                                                                                                              |