558 medical colleges with intake capacity 83275 MBBS seats, 42720 PG seats: Health Minister
Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar stated that as informed by the National Medical Commission (NMC), there are 558 medical colleges in India with an intake capacity of 83275 MBBS seats and 42720 PG seats (MD/ MS /DM /M.Ch /Diploma). She said this while answering the Lok sabha question about the details of medical colleges/universities/ institutes/hospitals functional and upcoming across the country along with the funds allocated/utilized and the total number of graduate/post-graduate level seats, State/ UT, district, location-wise.
She added, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare administers a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for “Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals” for the establishment of the medical college by upgrading the district hospitals in districts that do not have either a government or a private medical college. Under the scheme, 157 new medical colleges were approved in three phases. Funds to the tune of Rs.7541.1 crores, Rs. 3675 crores and Rs. 5519.11 crores have been released under Phase – I, II and III respectively. As informed by the State/UT governments, fund of Rs. 3238.09 Cr, Rs. 365.23 Cr. and Rs. 200 cr. have been utilized by them under Phase – I, II and III respectively. Out of 157, 47 medical colleges have become functional.
As per the health ministry, during the last academic session 2020-21, no medical college has been derecognised. The government took various steps to increase the availability of doctors and nurses in India, some of these steps include - enhancement of maximum intake capacity at MBBS level from 150 to 250, under the Central Sector Scheme - development of nursing services, financial assistance to the tune of Rs. 7 crore for each institution is provided to schools of nursing to be upgraded to the college of nursing. Moreover, the student-teacher ratio for M.Sc(N) programme has been relaxed from 1:5 to 1:10, student patient ratio for nursing institutions has been relaxed from 1:5 to 1:3.
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