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. Under the Scheme, 157 new medical colleges have been approved in three phases and 70 are already functional. Out of 157 sites, 40 are in aspirational districts. The details are at Annexure.

Under Phase-III of the above Centrally Sponsored Scheme, all States/UTs were requested to submit proposals along with Detailed Project Report (DPR). No proposal was received from the State Government of Odisha for establishment of a medical college at Dhenkanal district.

 

Annexure

 

Details of medical colleges approved in aspirational districts under Centrally Sponsored Scheme for ‘Establishment of new Medical Colleges attached with existing District/Referral Hospitals’

 

S. No.	Name of the State	Name of the District
1	Andhra Pradesh	Paderu (Vishakhapatnam)
2	Assam	Dhubri
3	Bihar	Purnia, Sitamarhi, Jamui
4	Chhattisgarh	Rajnandgaon, Korba,Mahasamund, Kanker
5	Gujarat	Narmada
6	Himachal Pradesh	Chamba
7	Jammu & Kashmir	Baramulla, Handwara (Distt. Kupwara)
8	Jharkhand	Dumka, Hazaribagh, Palamu (Daltonganj), Chaibasa (Singhbhum)
9	Karnataka	Yadgiri
10	Madhya Pradesh	Khandwa, Vidisha, Rajgarh, Singrauli
11	Maharashtra	Nandurbar
12	Odisha	Bolangir, Koraput, Kalahandi
13	Rajasthan	Dholpur, Baran, Jaisalmer, Karauli’ Sirohi
14	Uttarakhand	Haridwar Rudrapur, (Distt. Udham Singh Nagar)
15	Uttar Pradesh	Bahraich, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar (Domariyaganj), Chandauli, Sonbhadra
16	Tamil Nadu	Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar

 

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

 

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HFW/PQ/Establishment of Medical Colleges in Aspirational Districts/4^thFebruary2022/

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