Lok Sabha Question No. 408 (STARRED), answered on 2025-03-28
Subject: Medical Colleges in Rajasthan
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Lumbaram Choudhary

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. +*408 TO BE ANSWERED ON 28 TH MARCH, 2025

## MEDICALCOLLEGES IN RAJASTHAN

## +*408. SHRI LUMBA RAM CHAUDHARY:

Will the Minister of HEALTHANDFAMILYWELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government proposes to set up Medical and Post Graduate Medical Colleges in every district of the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT and district-wise including Jalore district of Rajasthan;
- (c) the number of new Medical Colleges set up across the country during the last three years, State/UT-wise including Rajasthan;
- (d) whether due to the absence of a Government Medical College in a district with limited medical facilities, citizens are not able to access qualitative health facilities and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the quantum of funds allocated for the development of health infrastructure in the rural areas of the country during the last three years, State/UT-wise?

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

- (a) to (e): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHASTARRED QUESTION NO. +* 408 FOR REPLY ON 28 TH MARCH, 2025

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(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 157 Government medical colleges have already been approved including 23 medical colleges in Rajasthan. The phase wise details of medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure -I.

This Ministry also provides technical and financial support to the States / UTs to strengthen the public health care system, based on the proposals received in the form of Program Implementation Plans (PIPs) under National Health Mission Scheme. The Government of India provides approval for the proposal in the form of Record of Proceedings (RoPs) as per norms and available resources. Ministry has conveyed approvals of Rs. 5953.35 Cr. for FY 2023-24; Rs. 5179.09 Cr. for FY 2022-23 & Rs. 5134.76 Cr. for FY 2021-22 towards the creation of building infrastructure in the States/UTs as a part of Health infrastructure under NHM. States/UTs-wise details are at Annexure-II

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## Annexure-I

## 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, Jhunjhunu, Dausa |

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

## State/UT-wise SPIP Approval on Infrastructure Strengthening (Rural) under National Health Mission (NHM) from FY 2021-22 to FY 2023-24:

|   Sl. No. | States                             |   2021-22 |   2022-23 |   2023-24 |
|-----------|------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|         1 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands        |      1.59 |      0.02 |      0.05 |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh                     |     23.33 |      0    |      8.23 |
|         3 | Arunachal Pradesh                  |     56.34 |     47.27 |     20.59 |
|         4 | Assam                              |    233.72 |    358.07 |    103.82 |
|         5 | Bihar                              |    373.58 |    989.44 |    522.63 |
|         6 | Chandigarh                         |      0    |      0    |      0    |
|         7 | Chhattisgarh                       |    146.66 |     75.5  |     75.5  |
|         8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu |      0.03 |      0.03 |      0.03 |
|         9 | Delhi                              |      5    |      0    |      0    |
|        10 | Goa                                |      1.25 |      2.32 |      1.97 |
|        11 | Gujarat                            |      6.75 |     45.99 |      0    |
|        12 | Haryana                            |    126.13 |     82.96 |      0.76 |
|        13 | Himachal Pradesh                   |     35.47 |      0    |      6    |
|        14 | Jammu and Kashmir                  |     33.69 |     15.35 |     33.11 |
|        15 | Jharkhand                          |     23.52 |     92    |     86.75 |
|        16 | Karnataka                          |    151.03 |     71.14 |     46.05 |
|        17 | Kerala                             |     58.37 |    126.33 |    180.43 |
|        18 | Lakshadweep                        |      0    |      0    |      0    |

|   19 | Madhya Pradesh   | 228.86   |   180.59 | 394.20   |
|------|------------------|----------|----------|----------|
|   20 | Maharashtra      | 541.47   |   588.44 | 583.91   |
|   21 | Manipur          | 28.58    |    17.8  | 0        |
|   22 | Meghalaya        | 16.09    |    10.03 | 0.11     |
|   23 | Mizoram          | 0.18     |     0.03 | 0        |
|   24 | Nagaland         | 10.05    |    30.69 | 21.27    |
|   25 | Odisha           | 322.20   |   607.26 | 466.31   |
|   26 | Puducherry       | 0.23     |     0    | 0        |
|   27 | Punjab           | 51.42    |     8    | 0        |
|   28 | Rajasthan        | 821.59   |   556.63 | 556.63   |
|   29 | Sikkim           | 3.71     |     0.31 | 0.61     |
|   30 | Tamil Nadu       | 245.32   |   519.63 | 736.95   |
|   31 | Telangana        | 75.12    |   113.87 | 408.95   |
|   32 | Tripura          | 48.74    |    48.28 | 44.17    |
|   33 | Uttar Pradesh    | 1,225.40 |   375.9  | 1,617.98 |
|   34 | Uttarakhand      | 129.56   |    95.44 | 8.04     |
|   35 | West Bengal      | 78.52    |    92.98 | 5.02     |
|   36 | Ladakh           | 31.25    |    26.81 | 23.26    |