Centre Gave Major Share of Funding for New Medical Colleges: Mansukh Mandaviya

NEW DELHI: The Government of India had paid the majority share while creating new medical infrastructure across the country. In contrast, the state governments have spent a minority share in all these projects.

As a part of the plan to make medical services available to all citizens of India, the central government had taken up a scheme to create several new medical colleges across the country. Not only were these institutions supposed to increase the number of people availing medical services, but also looked into an equitable distribution of medical colleges across different districts of the states of the country. These medical colleges will also increase the number of government doctors which will further ensure medical facilities for a larger number of Indians.

As a part of this scheme, eight new medical colleges were sanctioned across the Northeastern states. Out of them, four were given to Assam, which is also the highest in the region. These projects were in Dhubri, North Lakhimpur, Diphu and Nagaon in Assam, Naharlagun in Arunachal Pradesh, Falkawn in Mizoram, Tura in Meghalaya and one more in Nagaland. Apart from the ones in Nagaon, Tura and Nagaland, the other hospital projects have already been activated.

Posting a written reply in the ongoing winter session of Lok Sabha about the medical colleges in the country, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Mansukh Mandaviya mentioned that a total of 157 colleges had been sanctioned across the country under this scheme. All the institutions will be completed in three phases, and 94 of them are already functional.

While the central government is paying 60% of the costs in the rest of the states of the country, it is paying 90% for the eight institutions coming up in Northeast India. The state governments have to pay the remaining amount.

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