Lok Sabha Question No. 74 (STARRED), answered on 2025-02-07
Subject: Medical College in Odisha
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Rudra Narayan Pany

## GOVERNMENT OFINDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENTOFHEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE

## LOKSABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 74 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 7 TH FEBRUARY, 2025

## MEDICALCOLLEGE IN ODISHA

## †*74. SHRI RUDRA NARAYAN PANY:

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

- (a) whether the work relating to setting up of medical colleges in all the districts of the country has been started;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise; and
- (c) the time by which the construction work of medical college in Dhenkanal district of Odisha is likely to be started?

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

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

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 74 FOR 7 TH FEBRUARY, 2025

(a) to (c) 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 in three phases including 07 medical colleges (Balasore, Baripada (Mayurbhanj), Bolangir, Koraput, Puri in Phase-I, Jajpur in Phase-II & Kalahandi in Phase-III) in Odisha. All the 07 medical colleges in Odisha are functional. The phase wise details of medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure.

Also, as informed by Government of Odisha, there is no proposal for establishment of new Government Medical College in Dhenkanal district.

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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.N o           | 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)                                                                       |

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

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