Lok Sabha Question No. 3897 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-11
Subject: Setting up of Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Ashok Kumar Rawat, Vishnu Dayal Ram

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. † 3897 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11 TH AUGUST, 2023

## SETTING UPOFMEDICALCOLLEGES

## †3897. SHRI ASHOK KUMAR RAWAT: SHRI VISHNU DAYALRAM:

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

- (a) the details of the medical colleges in the country as on date, location-wise;
- (b) whether the Government has taken/proposes to take any steps to set up medical colleges in all the districts of the country;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise particularly in SC dominated parliamentary constituencies including Misrikh in Uttar Pradesh;
- (d) whether a medical college is proposed to be set up in Garhwa district of Jharkhand; and
- (e) if so, the time by which the said medical colleges are likely to be set up?

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

## WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) to (e): As per the National Medical Commission, there are a total of 704 medical colleges in the country as of now. The State/UT wise details of medical colleges in the Country are at Annexure -I. 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 with fund sharing between the Centre and State Governments in the ratio of 90:10 for North Eastern and Special Category States and 60:40 for others. Under the Scheme, 157 Government medical colleges have been approved in three phases, including 27 medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh and 05 medical colleges in Jharkhand. The State/UT wise details of 157 medical colleges approved under the Scheme are at Annexure II.

As per guidelines of the scheme, the planning, execution and commissioning of the medical colleges approved under the scheme is to be done by the State Government.

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## State/UT-wise list of Medical Colleges (including AIIMS & JIPMER) in the Country for the AY 2023-24

|   S.No. | Name of the State/UT     |   Total Colleges |
|---------|--------------------------|------------------|
|       1 | Andaman &Nicorbar Island |                1 |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh           |               37 |
|       3 | Arunchal Pradesh         |                1 |
|       4 | Assam                    |               13 |
|       5 | Bihar                    |               21 |
|       6 | Chandigarh               |                1 |
|       7 | Chhattisgarh             |               14 |
|       8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |                1 |
|       9 | Delhi                    |               10 |
|      10 | Goa                      |                1 |
|      11 | Gujarat                  |               39 |
|      12 | Haryana                  |               15 |
|      13 | Himachal Pradesh         |                8 |
|      14 | Jammu &Kashmir           |               12 |
|      15 | Jharkhand                |                9 |
|      16 | Karnataka                |               70 |
|      17 | Kerala                   |               33 |
|      18 | Madhya Pradesh           |               27 |
|      19 | Maharashtra              |               67 |
|      20 | Manipur                  |                4 |
|      21 | Meghalaya                |                1 |
|      22 | Mizoram                  |                1 |
|      23 | Odisha                   |               17 |
|      24 | Puducherry               |                9 |
|      25 | Punjab                   |               12 |
|      26 | Rajasthan                |               35 |
|      27 | Sikkim                   |                1 |
|      28 | Tamil Nadu               |               74 |
|      29 | Telangana                |               56 |
|      30 | Tripura                  |                2 |
|      31 | Uttar Pradesh            |               68 |
|      32 | Uttarakhand              |                8 |
|      33 | West Bengal              |               35 |
|      34 | Nagaland                 |                1 |

## Annexure-II

## 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)                                                           |
| 6              | Karnataka         | 4                 | Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgiri, Chikkaballapura                                              |
| 7              | Ladakh            | 1                 | Leh                                                                                           |
| 8              | Madhya Pradesh    | 6                 | Rajgarh, Mandla, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Sheopur, Singrauli                                        |

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