PM Modi to inaugurate new campus of Namo Medical College on April 17

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to inaugurate the new campus of Namo Medical College in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu on April 17, 2023. The foundation stone for Namo Medical College was laid in the year 2019. The infrastructure has come up at a cost of INR 203 crore. Read here to know more.

NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute is the only medical college in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Starting its operations from a leased building, the institute is now ready to shift to its own campus — spread across 35 acres in Silvassa. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the facility on April 17. He laid the foundation stone in 2019.

Dr Arun T, the Union Territory’s health secretary, said, “Pursuing higher education, especially medical education, has been a far-fetched dream for students of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu," as reported by The Print.

“Earlier, before the establishment of the medical college, only 10-12 students from the Union Territory could get the opportunity to avail of seats in medical colleges all over India from the central pool quota allotted to the Union Territory each year," he added.

The Union Territory could establish a medical college only in 2019 when, with the support and guidance of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Health, the NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute began functioning, he said.

The infrastructure has come up at a cost of INR 203 crore and features state-of-the-art amenities such as a multi-storey library, academic block with four lecture halls and an auditorium, club house, residential accommodation for faculty and hostel for students, and provision for outdoor and indoor games.

Dr Ramchandra Goyal, the dean of NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute, said the medical college started in the 2019-20 academic year with a capacity for 150 MBBS students. The number has gradually increased to 177 with 27 seats for students from the Economically Weaker Sections. At present, there are 682 students enrolled in the college.

“The target is to increase the number of seats to 200,” he said.

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