Medical Colleges

The permission for establishment of new medical colleges and to increase MBBS and PG seats is granted as per the provisions of Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 and the MCI Regulations namely the Establishment of Medical College Regulations, 1999 and The Opening of a New or Higher Course of Study or Training and Increase of Admission capacity in any course of Study or Training Regulations, 2000.

At present there are 387 medical colleges in the country, out of which, 181 are in Government sector and 206 Medical Colleges in Private sector. The total intake capacity for MBBS course of these medical colleges is 51,979 and 23,931 for PG seats. The State-wise details of Medical Colleges along with their intake capacity for MBBS & Post-graduate seats are at Annexure-I & II respectively.

To facilitate setting up of more medical colleges and to increase the MBBS & PG intake capacity in various medical colleges, the Central Government has amended the respective regulations relaxing in terms of teacher-students ratio, land requirement, bed strength, bed occupancy, maximum admission capacity, increase in age for appointment as teaching faculty and allowing establishment of government medical colleges by utilizing the facilities of the hospitals owned and managed by respective State Governments.

Further, financial assistance has been granted to 72 State Government Medical Colleges under the Scheme of “Strengthening and Upgradation of State Government Medical Colleges for starting new PG course/ increasing PG seats”.

At present there are no new medical colleges attached to the District Hospitals   .

During the academic year 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14  a total number of 275 applications were received for establishment of new medical colleges. Out of these applications, permission has been granted to 66 medical colleges for staring MBBS course. For the same period 215 applications have been received for increasing MBBS seats in existing medical colleges. Out of which, 77 medical colleges have been permitted for increase of MBBS seats State/UT-wise details of proposals received and approved for the academic year 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14  are at Annexure-III & IV.

Annexure-I

STATE-WISE DETAILS OF MEDICAL COLLEGES & MBBS SEATS
Sl. No.	State	Government		Private		Total
		No. of College	Seats	No. of Colleges	Seats	No. of Colleges	Seats
1	Andhra Pradesh	15	2450	28	3900	43	6350
2	Assam	5	626	0	0	5	626
3	Bihar	9	950	4	360	13	1310
4	Chandigarh	1	100	0	0	1	100
5	Chhattisgarh	4	450	1	150	5	600
6	Delhi	5	800	2	200	7	1000
7	Goa	1	150	0	0	1	150
8	Gujarat	9	1530	13	1700	22	3230
9	Haryana	3	400	4	400	7	800
10	Himachal Pradesh	2	200	1	150	3	350
11	Jammu & Kashmir	3	400	1	100	4	500
12	Jharkhand	3	350	0	0	3	350
13	Karnataka	12	1500	34	5255	46	6755
14	Kerala	7	1100	18	2000	25	3100
15	Madhya Pradesh	6	800	6	900	12	1700
16	Maharashtra	19	2600	25	3145	44	5745
17	Manipur	2	200	0	0	2	200
18	Meghalaya	1	50	0	0	1	50
19	Orissa	3	550	5	500	8	1050
20	Pondicherry	1	150	7	900	8	1050
21	Punjab	3	400	7	845	10	1245
22	Rajasthan	6	1200	4	550	10	1750
23	Sikkim	0	0	1	100	1	100
24	Tamil Nadu	21	2715	24	3500	45	6215
25	Tripura	2	200	0	0	2	200
26	Uttar Pradesh	14	1849	16	1900	30	3749
27	Uttarakhand	2	200	2	250	4	450
28	West Bengal	14	2050	3	400	17	2450
29	AIIMS	7	677	0	0	7	677
30	JIPMER	1	127	0	0	1	127
	Total	181	24774	206	27205	387	51979

Annexure-II State wise details of postgraduate seats in the country
	Sl. No.	State	Total
	1	Andhra Pradesh	2715
	2	Assam	368
	3	Bihar	462
	4	Chandigarh	38
	5	Chhattisgarh	79
	6	Delhi	1113
	7	Goa	74
	8	Gujarat	1620
	9	Haryana	280
	10	Himachal Pradesh	153
	11	Jammu & Kashmir	367
	12	Jharkhand	187
	13	Karnataka	3286
	14	Kerala	1186
	15	Madhya Pradesh	688
	16	Maharashtra	3108
	17	Manipur	72
	18	Meghalaya	8
	19	Orissa	461
	20	Pondicherry	369
	21	Punjab	1028
	22	Rajasthan	924
	23	Sikkim	22
	24	Tamil Nadu	2392
	25	Tripura	30
	26	Uttar Pradesh	1418
	27	Uttaranchal	149
	28	West Bengal	1166
		Total	23763*

* In addition to these seats, 168 super-specialty seats have been approved for the academic session 2013-14 Total PG seats including broad and super-specialty seats = 23763+168= 23931

Annexure-III

Number of proposals received and approved for establishment of new medical colleges from the years 2011-12 to 2013-14.

S. No.	State/UT	Number of proposals received
		2011-12		2012-13		2013-14
		Received	Approved	Received	Approved	Received	Approved
1	Andhra Pradesh	10	1	16	3	14	3
2	Assam	1	-	1	1	0	0
3	Bihar	3	1	6	1	7	2
4	Chhattisgarh	2	-	3	-	8	2
5	Delhi	3	-	2	1	2	1
6	Gujarat	6	3	3	3	1	0
7	Himachal Pradesh	-	-	-	-	2	1
8	Haryana	4	1	2	1	1	1
9	Jammu & Kashmir	1	-	1	-	2	0
10	Jharkhand	2	-	1	-	3	0
11	Karnataka	6	2	7	2	14	3
12	Kerala	5	-	2	-	8	2
13	Madhya Pradesh	2	1	-	-	2	0
14	Maharashtra	7	-	10	2	7	1
15	Manipur	-	-	-	-	0	0
16	Orissa	4	-	4	1	3	1
17	Puducherry	-	-	-	-	0	0
18	Punjab	2	2	-	-	1	0
19	Rajasthan	2	-	1	-	4	0
20	Tamil Nadu	13	3	6	2	6	3
21	Uttar Pradesh	8	4	8	2	14	3
22	Uttarakhand	-	-	1	-	1	0
23	West Bengal	5	3	3	1	5	2
24.	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	2	0
25	Meghalya	0	0	0	0	1	0
26	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	1	0
27.	Arunachal Pradesh	0	0	0	0	1	0
28.	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	1	0
29.	Tripura	0	0	0	0	1	0
TOTAL		86	21	77	20*	112	25

Total Proposals received (last 3 years)                    :           86+77+112      =    275

Proposal approved during the last three years        :      21+20+25 =   66

* In additional, 6 new AIIMS were established during the year under PMSSY.

Annexure-IV

Number of proposals received/approved for increase in undergraduate seats in existing medical colleges from the year 2011-12 to 2013-14.

S. No.	State/UT	Number of proposals received
		2011-12		2012-13		2013-14
		Received	Approved	Received	Approved	Received	Approved
1	Andhra Pradesh	7	1	15	5	11	7
2	Assam	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Bihar	4	0	2	1	4	0
4	Chhattisgarh	0	0	0	0	1	1
5	Delhi	2	1	0	0	0	0
6	Goa	1	0	1	1	0	0
7	Gujarat	3	1	3	2	1	0
8	Himachal Pradesh	1	1	0	0	0	0
9	Haryana	1	1	0	0	0	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	1	0	0	0	0	0
11	Jharkhand	3	1	0	0	1	0
12	Karnataka	20	8	8	3	10	5
13	Kerala	8	2	1	1	1	0
14	Madhya Pradesh	4	1	1	1	2	0
15	Maharashtra	13	4	8	4	4	1
16	Manipur	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Orissa	0	0	1	0	3	0
18	Puducherry	3	0	1	0	1	0
19	Punjab	1	1	2	0	3	2
20	Rajasthan	7	4	0	0	5	5
21	Tamil Nadu	7	1	4	3	5	4
22	Uttar Pradesh	7	4	3	2	4	2
23	Uttarakhand	0	0	0	0	2	1
24.	West Bengal	10	2	1	1	2	2
25	Sikkim	1	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL		104	33	51	24	60	30

Total Proposals received (last 3 years)                    :           104+51+60      =   215

            Proposal approved during the last three years        :           33+24+30=   87

           

This information was given by Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today (Aug 20, 2013).

Courtesy: (pib.nic.in) Press Information Bureau