Lok Sabha Question No. 2495 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-13
Subject: Establishment of New Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Smt. Delkar Kalaben Mohanbhai, Shri Bhumare Sandipanrao Asaram, Shri Giridhari Yadav, Shri Haribhai Patel, Shri Ramprit Mandal, Shri Dinesh Chandra Yadav

## GOVERNMENT OFINDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2495 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13 th FEBRUARY 2026

## ESTABLISHMENT OFNEW MEDICALCOLLEGES

## † 2495. SHRI RAMPRIT MANDAL:

SHRI BHUMARE SANDIPANRAO ASARAM:

SHRI DINESH CHANDRAYADAV:

SMT. DELKAR KALABEN MOHANBHAI:

SHRI GIRIDHARI YADAV:

SHRI HARIBHAI PATEL:

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

- (a) whether the Government proposes to establish at least one medical college in each district across the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the details of work related to the establishment of medical colleges in all the districts of the country, State/UT-wise and district-wise, especially in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district of Maharashtra and Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli;
- (c) the details of the districts where no medical colleges have been established as on date, State/UT-wise;
- (d) the timeline for achieving the target of setting up at least one medical college in each district under the said scheme along with the details thereof;
- (e) the details of the number of new medical colleges established by the Government during each of the last three years, State/UT-wise and district-wise; and
- (f) whether academic sessions have commenced in all such newly established medical colleges and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OFSTATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. ANUPRIYAPATEL)

(a) to (f): 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 across the country. The phase wise details of medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure-I. Out of the 157 approved medical colleges, 137 colleges are functional, including 65 medical colleges that have become functional since FY 2022-23. The State-wise details of these functional medical colleges are provided 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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## Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (f) of Lok Sabha Untarred Question No. 2495 for answer on 13.02.2026

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)         |
| 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                                              |

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

Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (f) of Lok Sabha Untarred Question No. 2495 for answer on 13.02.2026

Annexure-II

State-wise details of 65 functional Medical Colleges under the CSS for 'Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals' since Financial Year 2022-23

|   S. No. | State          | District                                                                                                                                                       |
|----------|----------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh | Paderu, Machilipatnam                                                                                                                                          |
|        2 | Assam          | Dhubri, Nagaon, Kokrajhar                                                                                                                                      |
|        3 | Bihar          | Purnia                                                                                                                                                         |
|        4 | Chhattisgarh   | Korba, Mahasamund                                                                                                                                              |
|        5 | Gujarat        | Narmada, Navsari, Panchmahal, Porbandar, Morbi                                                                                                                 |
|        6 | Haryana        | Bhiwani                                                                                                                                                        |
|        7 | Jammu &Kashmir | Udhampur, Handwara (Distt. Kupwara)                                                                                                                            |
|        8 | Karnataka      | Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgiri                                                                                                                                |
|        9 | Madhya Pradesh | Neemuch, Mandsaur, Sheopur, Singrauli                                                                                                                          |
|       10 | Manipur        | Churachandpur                                                                                                                                                  |
|       11 | Nagaland       | Naga Hospital, Kohima                                                                                                                                          |
|       12 | Odisha         | Jajpur, Kalahandi                                                                                                                                              |
|       13 | Rajasthan      | Alwar, Baran, Bansawara, Chittorgarh, Karauli, Nagaur, Shri Ganganagar, Sirohi, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Hanumangarh, Jhunjhunu, Dausa, Dholpur, Jaisalmer, Tonk |
|       14 | Uttarakhand    | Haridwar                                                                                                                                                       |
|       15 | Uttar Pradesh  | Bijnaur, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Chandauli, Bulandshahar, Sonbhadra, Pilibhit, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kaushambi, Amethi       |
|       16 | West Bengal    | Jalpaiguri, Barasat, Uluberia, Arambagh, Jhargram, Tamluk                                                                                                      |