Lok Sabha Question No. 2303 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-13
Subject: Government Medical College in Kishanganj
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Dr. Mohammad Jawed

## GOVERNMENTOFINDIA MINISTRYOF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENTOFHEALTHAND FAMILYWELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2303 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13 th FEBRUARY 2026

## GOVERNMENTMEDICALCOLLEGE IN KISHANGANJ

## 2303. DR. MOHAMMAD JAWED:

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

- (a) whether the Government has proposed to have a Medical College in every district of the country and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise and district-wise, particularly in Bihar;
- (b) whether the Government has approved the establishment of a Government Medical College in Kishanganj district;
- (c) if so, the details thereof along with the current status, stage of approval and timeline for commencement of academic and hospital services in this regard; and
- (d) if not, the reasons therefore along with details of any proposal or timeline fixed by the Government to establish a Government Medical College in Kishanganj district, considering its border location, healthcare deficits and high patient load?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)

(a) to (d): 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 Government medical colleges have been approved in three phases including 08 medical colleges in Bihar. The phase wise details of medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure. However, no proposal for setting up of Medical College at Kishanganj has been received from the State of Bihar.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Untarred Question No. 2303 for answer on 13.02.2026

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) | 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                                                                                                                                              |