Lok Sabha Question No. 910 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-07
Subject: Establishment of  AIIMS in Tribal District
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Radheshyam Rathiya

## GOVERNMENT OFINDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENTOFHEALTHAND FAMILYWELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO- 910 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07/02/2025

## ESTABLISHMENT OF AIIMS IN TRIBAL DISTRICT

## 910. SHRI RADHESHYAM RATHIYA.

Will the Minister of HEALTHANDFAMILYWELFARE be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether the Government proposes to establish All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) colleges in tribal dominated districts of the country
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise and district-wise particularly of Raigarh and Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh; and
- (c) the details of steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government to ensure access of healthcare facilities to every citizen including the tribal people?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OFSTATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI PRATAPRAO JADHAV)

- (a) and (b) Under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), till date establishment of 22 All India Institutes of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) has been approved in the various States/UTs in the country including AIIMS at Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Deoghar, (Jharkhand), Nagpur(Maharashtra) and Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh). Details of AIIMS, State/UT-wise including Chhattisgarh is placed at Annexure.
- (c) National Health Mission (NHM) envisages universal access to equitable, affordable and quality healthcare services by providing technical and financial support to the States/UTs to strengthen the public healthcare system, especially for the poor and vulnerable sections in urban, rural, and tribal/hilly areas. Under NHM, tribal areas have following relaxed norms to address the needbased intervention in terms of healthcare infrastructure and human resources:
- i. The population norms for setting up health facilities in tribal areas have been relaxed from 5,000, 30,000 and 1,20,000 to 3000, 20,000 and 80,000 for setting up of Sub Health Centre (SHC), Primary Health Centre (PHC) and Community Health Centre (CHC) in
- tribal and hilly areas;
- ii. Against norm of one ASHA per 1000 population in normal areas, one ASHA per habitation in Tribal/hilly and difficult areas; and
- iii. Against the norm of 2 Mobile Medical Units (MMU) per district in plains, 4 MMUs per district in tribal/ hilly/ inaccessible/ remote and hard to reach areas.

Further, under Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM-JANMAN), further relaxation in NHM norms has been provided to the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) areas as under:

- i. Upto 10 MMUs per districts with PVTG areas; and
- ii. Provision of one additional Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) on Multi-Purpose Centers (MPCs) and making available basic drugs and diagnostics in the PVTG areas.

## ANNEXURE

## Details of AIIMS, Location wise/State wise approved under PMSSY

|   Sl. No. | State/ UT        | Location of AIIMS            | Status                          |
|-----------|------------------|------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh   | AIIMS Mangalagiri            | Functional                      |
|         2 | Assam            | AIIMS Guwahati               | Under Construction              |
|         3 | Bihar            | AIIMS Darbhanga              | Pre-Investment work in Progress |
|         4 | Bihar            | AIIMS Patna                  | Functional                      |
|         5 | Chhattisgarh     | AIIMS Raipur                 | Functional                      |
|         6 | Gujarat          | AIIMS Rajkot                 | Under Construction              |
|         7 | Haryana          | AIIMS Majra (Rewari)         | Under Construction              |
|         8 | Himachal Pradesh | AIIMS Bilaspur               | Functional                      |
|         9 | Jammu &Kashmir   | AIIMS Vijaypur, Samba, Jammu | Under Construction              |
|        10 | Jammu &Kashmir   | AIIMS Awantipora, Kashmir    | Under Construction              |
|        11 | Jharkhand        | AIIMS Deoghar                | Under Construction              |
|        12 | Madhya Pradesh   | AIIMS Bhopal                 | Functional                      |
|        13 | Maharashtra      | AIIMS Nagpur                 | Functional                      |
|        14 | Odisha           | AIIMS Bhubaneswar            | Functional                      |
|        15 | Punjab           | AIIMS Bathinda               | Functional                      |
|        16 | Rajasthan        | AIIMS Jodhpur                | Functional                      |
|        17 | Tamil Nadu       | AIIMS Madurai                | Under Construction              |
|        18 | Telangana        | AIIMS Bibinagar              | Under Construction              |
|        19 | Uttar Pradesh    | AIIMS Raebareli              | Functional                      |
|        20 | Uttar Pradesh    | AIIMS Gorakhpur              | Functional                      |
|        21 | Uttarakhand      | AIIMS Rishikesh              | Functional                      |
|        22 | West Bengal      | AIIMS, Kalyani               | Functional                      |

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