Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
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70 of 157 Approved New Medical Colleges Functional in Backward Areas

Posted On: 10 DEC 2021 4:37PM by PIB Delhi

Health is a state subject and primary responsibility to ensure availability of publichealth facilities lies with the State Government. However, the Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare administers a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for ‘Establishment of new MedicalColleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals’ with preference to underserved areas and aspirational districts, where there is no existing Government or private medicalcollege. This step will help to improve the healthcare delivery system in these areas. Under this scheme, Government of India has approved establishment of 157 new medical colleges in three phases. Out of these, 70 medical colleges have become functional till date.

Details are at Annexure.

 

Annexure

 

 

Centrally Sponsored scheme for ‘Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals’

 

Approved medical colleges

 

Sl. No

State/UT

Districts

Phase-I (58)

1

A & N Islands

Port Blair

2

Arunachal Pradesh

Naharlagun

3

Assam

Dhubri, Nagaon, North Lakhimpur, Diphu

4

Bihar

Purnia, Saran (Chhapara), Samastipur

5

Chhattisgarh

Rajnandgaon, Sarguja

6

Himachal Pradesh

Chamba, Hamirpur, Nahan (Sirmour)

7

Haryana

Bhiwani

8

Jharkhand

Dumka, Hazaribagh, Palamu (Daltonganj)

9

Jammu & Kashmir

Anantnag, Baramulla, Rajouri, Doda, Kathua

10

Madhya Pradesh

Datia, Khandwa, Ratlam, Shahdol, Vidisha, Chindwara, Shivpuri

11

Maharashtra

Gondia

12

Meghalaya

West Garo Hills (Tura)

13

Mizoram

Falkawn

14

Nagaland

Naga Hospital (Kohima)

15

Odisha

Balasore, Baripada (Mayurbhanj), Bolangir, Koraput, Puri

16

Punjab

SAS Nagar

17

Rajasthan

Barmer, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Churu, Dungarpur, Pali,  Sikar

18

Uttar Pradesh

Basti, Faizabad, Firozabad, Shahjahanpur, Bahraich

19

Uttarakhand

Almora

20

West Bengal

Birbhum (Rampur Hat), Cooch behar, Diamond harbour, Purulia, Raiganj (North Dinajpur)

Phase –II (24)

1

Bihar

Sitamarhi, Jhanjharpur, Siwan, Buxar, Jamui

2

Jharkhand

Koderma, Chaibasa (Singhbhum)

3

Madhya Pradesh

Satna

4

Odisha

Jajpur

5

Rajasthan

Dholpur

6

Uttar Pradesh

Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar (Domariyaganj), Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur

7

West Bengal

Barasat, Uluberia, Arambagh, Jhargram, Tamluk

8

Sikkim

Gangtok

Phase-III (75)

1

Andhra Pradesh

Piduguralla, Paderu, Machilipatnam

2

Assam

Kokrajhar

3

Chhattisgarh

Korba, Mahasamund, Kanker

4

Gujarat

Narmada, Navsari, Panchmahal, Porbandar, Morbi

5

Jammu & Kashmir

Udhampur, Handwara (Distt. Kupwara)

6

Karnataka

Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgiri, Chikkaballapura

7

Ladakh

Leh

8

Madhya Pradesh

Rajgarh, Mandla, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Sheopur, Singrauli

9

Maharashtra

Nandurbar

10

Manipur

Churachandpur

11

Nagaland

Mon

12

Odisha

Kalahandi

13

Punjab

Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur

14

Rajasthan

Alwar, Baran, Bansawara, Chittorgarh, Jaisalmer, Karauli, Nagaur, Shri Ganganagar, Sirohi, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Tonk, Hanumangarh, Jhunjhunu, Dausa

15

Uttarakhand

Rudrapur (Distt. Udham Singh Nagar), Pithoragarh, Haridwar

16

Uttar Pradesh

Bijnaur, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Chandauli, Bulandshahar, Sonbhadra, Pilibhit, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kaushambi, Amethi

17

Tamil Nadu

Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Ramanathapuram, Namakkal, Dindigul,, Virudhunagar, Krishnagiri, Tiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Ariyalur, Kallakurichi

18

West Bengal

Jalpaiguri

 

The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar stated this in a written reply in the LokSabha today.

 

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