Lok Sabha Question No. 1179 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-02-09
Subject: Criteria for setting up of New Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Keshari Devi Patel, Sunil Kumar Singh

## GOVERNMENTOFINDIA MINISTRYOF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENTOFHEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1179 TO BE ANSWERED ON 9th February, 2024

## CRITERIAFOR SETTING UPOF NEW MEDICALCOLLEGES

## 1179. SHRIMATI KESHARI DEVI PATEL: SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

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

- (a) the criteria for setting up new medical colleges in the country;
- (b) whether the Government has any proposal to relax the criteria of minimum marks for admission in MBBS and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has any plan to restart closed medical colleges;
- (d) whether the Government has announced to set up one medical college for every three districts or three Parliamentary Constituencies in the country; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof along with the number of medical colleges required to be set up as per the formula of one medical college for every three districts, State/UT-wise including Jharkhand?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a) to (e) As per National Medical Commission (NMC), the new medical colleges are set up in the country in accordance with the provisions contained in the 'Guidelines for Under Graduate Courses under Establishment of New Medical Courses, Starting of New Medical Courses, Increase of Seats for Existing Courses & Assessment and Rating Regulations, 2023' dated 16.08.2023.

Further, 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, all the envisaged 157 medical colleges have been approved in three phases including 5 Medical Colleges in the State of Jharkhand. The State/UT-wise details of medical colleges approved under the scheme are at Annexure.

In addition to this, under the Central Sector Scheme for setting up of new AIIMS, 22 AIIMS have been approved including a AIIMS in Deoghar district of Jharkhand.

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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) |
| 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                                                                                            |

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