Stimulating Medical education in country, Government approves 22 new AIIMS

New Delhi, Jun 25: Indian government is introducing new initiatives for higher education. Now nurturing the PG medical education, The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely “Up-gradation of existing State Government / Central Government Medical colleges to increase PG seats”.

 

 

 

The funding pattern is 90:10 by Central and State Governments respectively for the North Eastern States and Special category States and 60:40 for other States with the upper ceiling cost pegged at Rs.1.20 crore per seat.

 

The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha here today.

 

72 Government medical colleges in 21 States/UTs have been approved for increasing 4058 new PG seats under the Phase-I of the scheme and 5 Government medical colleges have been approved in 3 States for increasing 98 new PG seats under the Phase-II of the scheme till date.

 

Further, under section 10A of the IMC Act, 1956 applications were received for starting/increasing of PG courses/seats for the academic session 2019-20 and a total of 2153 new PG seats have been permitted.

 

 

Phase- I: Patna, Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Rishikesh

Phase- II: Rae Bareli

Phase-IV: Mangalgiri near Guntur in AP, Kalyani in WB, Nagpur in Maharashtra, Gorakhpur in UP

Phase-V: Bathinda in Punjab, Kamrup District in Guwahati, Assam, Kothipura in Bilaspur District, Himachal Pradesh, Thoppur in Madurai District, Samba District in Jammu, Awantipora, Pulwama in Kashmir, Bihar

Phase-VI: Deoghar in Jharkhand, Khanderi, Rajkot, Gujarat

Phase-VII: Bibinagar, Telangana

Phase VIII: Manethi, Rewari, Haryana