Centre Approves Setting Up 26 Medical Colleges

Centre has approved setting up 26 new medical colleges under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS)– ‘Establishment of new Medical Colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals’. The information was shared by Minister of State Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey in the Lok Sabha while replying to questions asked by S Gnanathiraviam, Basanta Kumar Panda and Saptagiri Sankar Alaska.
Under the third phase of CSS, the government has given nod to the establishment of medical colleges in six states and union territories which are Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh.

Tamil Nadu was not covered in the first and second phases. In the third phase six medical colleges in Tamil Nadu have been approved till date, said the Minister in his reply.

When asked whether the government proposes/ plans to approve new medical college at Rayagada (aspirational district, Odisha) and about establishment of medical college in the backward district of Kalahandi Mr Choubey replied under the third phase, no proposal for new medical colleges at Rayagada and Kalahandi, Odisha has been received from the Government of Odisha.

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