Lok Sabha Question No. 1263 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-06
Subject: Prioritisation for New Government Medical Colleges
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Jagannath Sarkar

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1263 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06 TH FEBRUARY, 2026

## PRIORITISATION FOR NEW GOVERNMENT MEDICALCOLLEGE

## 1263. SHRI JAGANNATH SARKAR:

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

- (a) the details of the districts which do not have any Government medical college in the country, State/UT-wise along with the population of each such district as per the latest Census or official estimates;

(b) the total number of districts with a population above 5 lakh, 10 lakh and 15 lakh that are currently without a Government medical college in the country, district-wise; and (c) the details of any concrete roadmap of the Government along with timelines to ensure that high-population districts without Government medical colleges are prioritised for opening of new medical colleges so as to reduce regional healthcare disparities?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (c) As informed by the National Medical Commission (NMC), there are a total of 818 medical colleges, including (AIIMS and INIs), across the country as of now. The State/UT-wise details of these medical colleges are at Annexure-I.

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. A total of 157 Medical Colleges have been approved in the various districts across the country. State wise details of Medical Colleges approved under the scheme are at Annexure-II. Further, support has also been provided for Strengthening/Upgradation of existing Sate Government/Central Government medical colleges to increase the number of MBBS (UG) and PG seats under another CSS Scheme. Under these schemes, additional 4977 MBBS seats and 8058 PG seats have been approved in medical colleges across the country.

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State/UT Wise Medical Colleges across the country

|   Sl. No | State/UT            |   Private Colleges |   Govt Colleges |   Total Colleges |
|----------|---------------------|--------------------|-----------------|------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh      |                 20 |              19 |               39 |
|        2 | Andaman &Nicobar    |                  0 |               1 |                1 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh   |                  0 |               1 |                1 |
|        4 | Assam               |                  0 |              16 |               16 |
|        5 | Bihar               |                 12 |              13 |               25 |
|        6 | Chandigarh          |                  0 |               1 |                1 |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh        |                  5 |              11 |               16 |
|        8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |                  0 |               1 |                1 |
|        9 | Delhi               |                  2 |               9 |               11 |
|       10 | Goa                 |                  0 |               1 |                1 |
|       11 | Gujarat             |                 19 |              24 |               43 |
|       12 | Haryana             |                  9 |               8 |               17 |
|       13 | Himachal Pradesh    |                  1 |               7 |                8 |
|       14 | Jammu &Kashmir      |                  1 |              11 |               12 |
|       15 | Jharkhand           |                  3 |               7 |               10 |
|       16 | Karnataka           |                 48 |              24 |               72 |
|       17 | Kerala              |                 22 |              14 |               36 |
|       18 | Madhya Pradesh      |                 14 |              21 |               35 |
|       19 | Maharashtra         |                 42 |              43 |               85 |
|       20 | Manipur             |                  1 |               3 |                4 |
|       21 | Meghalaya           |                  1 |               2 |                3 |
|       22 | Mizoram             |                  0 |               1 |                1 |

Annexure-I

|   23 | Nagaland      |   0 |   1 |   1 |
|------|---------------|-----|-----|-----|
|   24 | Odisha        |   6 |  15 |  21 |
|   25 | Puducherry    |   7 |   2 |   9 |
|   26 | Punjab        |   7 |   6 |  13 |
|   27 | Rajasthan     |  15 |  34 |  49 |
|   28 | Sikkim        |   1 |   0 |   1 |
|   29 | Tamil Nadu    |  40 |  38 |  78 |
|   30 | Telangana     |  29 |  37 |  66 |
|   31 | Tripura       |   2 |   1 |   3 |
|   32 | Uttar Pradesh |  37 |  51 |  88 |
|   33 | Uttarakhand   |   4 |   6 |  10 |
|   34 | West Bengal   |  15 |  26 |  41 |

Annexure-II

## 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                                                 |

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

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