Lok Sabha Question No. 320 (STARRED), answered on 2025-03-21
Subject: New Medical Colleges/Hospitals
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Bhojraj Nag

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. †*320 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 st MARCH 2025

## NEWMEDICALCOLLEGES/HOSPITALS

## †*320. SHRI BHOJRAJ NAG:

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

- (a) the detailed status of construction of new Medical colleges across the country as on date;
- (b) whether there are any plans to start/open new hospitals or medical colleges in the country;
- (c) if so, the details and the status thereof; and
- (d) whether there is any proposal to upgrade Kanker District Hospital in Chhattisgarh into a Super Speciality Hospital and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA)

- (a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHASTARRED QUESTION NO. 320 FOR 21 st MARCH, 2025

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(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. 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 157 Government medical colleges have already been approved, of which 131 are functional. The phase wise details of medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure. Further, as per guidelines of the Scheme, the planning, execution and commissioning of the medical colleges approved under the scheme are done by the State Government.

Government Medical College (GMC), Kanker was approved under Phase-III of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for 'Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals' in the year 2020 at a cost of Rs.325 crores to be shared between Centre and State Government in the ratio of 60:40. Central Share of Rs.90 crores has been released to Government of Chhattisgarh. The college has become functional in temporary campus with intake capacity of 100 MBBS seats in 2021. The current intake capacity of the college is 125 MBBS seats.

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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) |

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

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