Lok Sabha Question No. 3129 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-13
Subject: Proposal for Medical Colleges in Bihar
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Dr. Alok Kumar Suman

## GOVERNMENTOFINDIA MINISTRY OFHEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENTOFHEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3129 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13 th DECEMBER 2024

## PROPOSALFOR MEDICALCOLLEGES IN BIHAR

## 3129. DR. ALOK KUMAR SUMAN:

- Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that the Government has received number of proposal to set up medical colleges in the country including Bihar and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise; (b) whether it is a fact that the Government has approved to establish medical colleges in Gopalganj district of Bihar and if so, the details thereof; (c) whether it is a fact that the Government has received any representation from Members of Parliament to establish medical college in District Gopalganj in Bihar; (d) if so, the details thereof along with the action taken by the Government in this regard; and (e) whether it is a fact that medical college cannot be established in the State without the
- proposal of State Government and if so, the details thereof along with the criteria fixed for the establishment of the same?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. ANUPRIYAPATEL)

(a) 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. The fund sharing mechanism between the Centre and State Governments is in the ratio of 90:10 for North Eastern and Special Category States, and 60:40 for others. Under the Scheme, all the envisaged Government medical colleges have been approved in three phases including 08 medical colleges in Bihar. The phase wise details of medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure.

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Annexure State-wise details of 157 Medical Colleges approved under the Centrally Sponsored scheme for 'Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals'

| S.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)                                                           |

|   S.No | State/UT       |   No. of colleges | Districts                                                                                                                                               |
|--------|----------------|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|      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                                                                                                                                              |