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GOVERNMENTOFINDIA
MINISTRYOFHEALTH ANDFAMILYWELFARE
DEPARTMENTOFHEALTHAND FAMILYWELFARE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARREDQUESTION NO. 2303
TOBE ANSWERED ON13th FEBRUARY2026
GOVERNMENTMEDICALCOLLEGE IN KISHANGANJ
2303. DR. MOHAMMAD JAWED:
Will the Ministerof HEALTH AND FAMILYWELFAREbe pleased tostate:
(a) whether the Government has proposed to have a Medical College in every district of the country
andif so, the detailsthereof, State/UT-wise anddistrict-wise, particularlyinBihar;
(b) whether the Government has approved the establishment of a Government Medical College in
Kishanganj district;
(c) if so, the details thereof along with the current status, stage of approval and timeline for
commencementof academic andhospital services inthisregard; and
(d) if not, the reasons therefore along with details of any proposal or timeline fixed by the
Government to establish a Government Medical College in Kishanganj district, considering its
border location,healthcare deficitsandhighpatientload?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OFSTATEIN THE MINISTRYOFHEALTHAND FAMILYWELFARE
(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 Government medical colleges have been approved in
three phases including 08 medical colleges in Bihar. The phase wise details of medical colleges
approved in the country are at Annexure. However, no proposal for setting upof Medical College at
Kishanganj hasbeenreceivedfrom the Stateof Bihar.
******Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Untarred Question No.
2303foranswer on13.02.2026
Annexure
State-wise details of 157 Medical Colleges approved under the Centrally Sponsored scheme for
‘Establishmentof newmedicalcolleges attachedwith 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, Chindwara,
10 Madhya Pradesh
Shivpuri
11 Maharashtra 1 Gondia
12 Meghalaya 1 West Garo Hills (Tura)
13 Mizoram 1 Falkawn
14 Nagaland 1 Naga Hospital (Kohima)
15 Odisha 5 Balasore, Baripada (Mayurbhanj), Bolangir,Koraput, Puri
16 Punjab 1 SASNagar
17 Rajasthan 7 Barmer, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Churu, Dungarpur,Pali, Sikar
18 Uttar Pradesh 5 Basti, Faizabad, Firozabad,Shahjahanpur, Bahraich
19 Uttarakhand 1 Almora
Birbhum (Rampur Hat), Cooch Behar, Diamond Harbour,
20 West Bengal 5
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 Kokrajhar
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, SingrauliNo. of
S.No State/UT Districts
colleges
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 TamilNadu 11 Tiruppur,Nilgiris, Ramanathapuram,Namakkal,Dindigul,
Virudhunagar, Krishnagiri, Tiruvallur,Nagapattinam,
Ariyalur, Kallakurichi
18 West Bengal 1 Jalpaiguri