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GOVERNMENT OFINDIA
MINISTRYOFHEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE
DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARREDQUESTION NO. 3304
TOBE ANSWERED ON07thAUGUST 2026
ESTABLISHMENTOFGOVERNMENT MEDICALCOLLEGE
3304. SHRIMALVINDER SINGH KANG:
Will the Ministerof HEALTH AND FAMILYWELFAREbe pleasedtostate:
(a) whether the Government has undertaken any scheme to establish Government Medical
Collegesinalldistricts of the country;
(b) if so, the detailsthereof,State/UT-wise;
(c) whether Rupnagar (Ropar) district in Punjab has been considered under the said scheme;
and
(d) if so, the current status of the proposal and the likely timeline for the commencement of
construction of the Medical College inthe district?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OFSTATE IN THE MINISTRYOFHEALTH AND FAMILY
WELFARE
(SMT. ANUPRIYAPATEL)
(a) to (d): The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare administers a Centrally Sponsored
Scheme (CSS) for ‘Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing
district/referral hospitals’ with preference to underserved areas and aspirational districts,
where there is no existing Government or private medical college. The fund sharing
mechanism between the Centre and State Governments is in the ratio of 90:10 for North
Eastern and Special Category States, and 60:40 for others. Under the Scheme, all the
envisaged 157 medical colleges have been approved in three phases, including 03 medical
colleges in Punjab at SAS Nagar, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur. The phase wise details of
medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure. However, no proposal for setting
upof Medical College at Rupnagar(Ropar) hasbeenreceivedfrom the Stateof Punjab.
******Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.
3304foranswer on07.08.2026
Annexure
State-wise details of 157 Medical Colleges approved under the Centrally Sponsored scheme
for ‘Establishment of newmedicalcollegesattachedwith existingdistrict/referral hospitals’
No. of
S.No State/UT Districts
colleges
Phase-I(58)
1 A& N Islands 1 PortBlair
2 Arunachal Pradesh 1 Naharlagun
3 Assam 4 Dhubri, Nagaon, North Lakhimpur, Diphu
4 Bihar 3 Purnia,Saran (Chhapara),Samastipur
5 Chhattisgarh 2 Rajnandgaon,Sarguja
6 HimachalPradesh 3 Chamba,Hamirpur, Nahan (Sirmour)
7 Haryana 1 Bhiwani
8 Jharkhand 3 Dumka, Hazaribagh,Palamu (Daltonganj)
9 Jammu & Kashmir 5 Anantnag,Baramulla, Rajouri,Doda, Kathua
7 Datia, Khandwa, Ratlam, Shahdol, Vidisha,
10 Madhya Pradesh
Chindwara, Shivpuri
11 Maharashtra 1 Gondia
12 Meghalaya 1 West Garo Hills (Tura)
13 Mizoram 1 Falkawn
14 Nagaland 1 Naga Hospital (Kohima)
15 5 Balasore, Baripada (Mayurbhanj), Bolangir, Koraput,
Odisha
Puri
16 Punjab 1 SASNagar
Barmer, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Churu, Dungarpur, Pali,
17 Rajasthan 7
Sikar
18 Uttar Pradesh 5 Basti, Faizabad, Firozabad,Shahjahanpur, Bahraich
19 Uttarakhand 1 Almora
Birbhum (Rampur Hat), Cooch Behar, Diamond
20 West Bengal 5
Harbour, Purulia,Raiganj (North Dinajpur)
Phase –II (24)
1 Bihar 5 Sitamarhi, Jhanjharpur,Siwan,Buxar, Jamui
2 Jharkhand 2 Koderma, Chaibasa (Singhbhum)
3 Madhya Pradesh 1 Satna
4 Odisha 1 Jajpur
5 Rajasthan 1 Dholpur
6 Uttar Pradesh 8 Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar
(Domariyaganj),Deoria, Ghazipur,Mirzapur
7 West Bengal 5 Barasat, Uluberia, Arambagh, Jhargram,Tamluk
8 Sikkim 1 Gangtok
Phase-III (75)
1 Andhra Pradesh 3 Piduguralla, Paderu,Machilipatnam
2 Assam 1 KokrajharNo. of
S.No State/UT Districts
colleges
3 Chhattisgarh 3 Korba, Mahasamund, Kanker
4 Gujarat 5 Narmada,Navsari, Panchmahal, Porbandar, Morbi
5 Jammu & Kashmir 2 Udhampur, Handwara (Distt. Kupwara)
6 Karnataka 4 Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgiri,Chikkaballapura
7 Ladakh 1 Leh
8 Madhya Pradesh 6 Rajgarh, Mandla, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Sheopur,
Singrauli
9 Maharashtra 1 Nandurbar
10 Manipur 1 Churachandpur
11 Nagaland 1 Mon
12 Odisha 1 Kalahandi
13 Punjab 2 Kapurthala,Hoshiarpur
14 Rajasthan 15 Alwar, Baran, Bansawara, Chittorgarh, Jaisalmer,
Karauli,
Nagaur, Shri Ganganagar, Sirohi, Bundi,
SawaiMadhopur, Tonk, Hanumangarh, Jhunjhunu,
Dausa
15 Uttarakhand 3 Rudrapur (Distt. Udham Singh Nagar), Pithoragarh,
Haridwar
16 Uttar Pradesh 14 Bijnaur, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur,
LakhimpurKheri, Chandauli, Bulandshahar,
Sonbhadra, Pilibhit, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat,
Kaushambi, Amethi
17 Tamil Nadu 11 Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Ramanathapuram, Namakkal,
Dindigul,
Virudhunagar, Krishnagiri, Tiruvallur,Nagapattinam,
Ariyalur, Kallakurichi
18 West Bengal 1 Jalpaiguri