Executive Summary:
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare addresses a Lok Sabha question regarding increasing personnel at AIIMS, particularly in Bhopal, and establishing a Central Research Laboratory (CRL) in AIIMS, Bhopal, similar to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. The response outlines ongoing recruitment efforts and initiatives to fill vacant positions and emphasizes the responsibility of each AIIMS to provide research infrastructure.
Key Points / Main Content:
Personnel Increase in AIIMS:
* Creation of posts and recruitment is a continuous process to ensure effective functioning of AIIMS departments.
* Vacant faculty and non-faculty positions are being filled through several measures.
* Annexure provides details of faculty and non-faculty positions in various AIIMS, including sanctioned strength and filled positions.
Recruitment Initiatives:
* Standing Selection Committees in each AIIMS facilitate filling faculty positions.
* Retired faculty can be engaged on contract basis up to age 70 in new AIIMS.
* Visiting Faculty Scheme allows professors from government institutions within and outside India to teach at new AIIMS.
* NORCET is conducted by AIIMS Delhi for Nursing Officer recruitment.
* CRE is conducted by AIIMS Delhi for Group B and C non-faculty positions.
* AIIMS Delhi conducts INICET and INISS for Junior and Senior Residents selection.
Central Research Laboratory (CRL):
* Each AIIMS is responsible for providing adequate infrastructure for research in various branches of science.
Impact Analysis:
AIIMS Administration and Faculty:
Impact: Responsible for implementing recruitment initiatives and providing research infrastructure.
Action Required: Utilize Standing Selection Committees, Visiting Faculty Scheme, and provide resources for research.
AIIMS Delhi:
Impact: Responsible for conducting NORCET and CRE recruitment exams, as well as INICET and INISS exams.
Action Required: Continue conducting recruitment exams for various AIIMS.
Healthcare Professionals (Doctors, Paramedical Staff, Nurses):
Impact: Potential employees seeking positions at AIIMS.
Action Required: Participate in recruitment processes like NORCET, CRE, INICET and INISS exams, and apply for faculty positions through Standing Selection Committees or Visiting Faculty Scheme.
Patients:
Impact: Beneficiaries of increased personnel and improved research facilities at AIIMS.
Action Required: None.
Key Entities Referenced
All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS: A group of autonomous public medical institutes of higher education. The document discusses increasing personnel and infrastructure across various AIIMS locations.
AIIMS Bhopal Madhya Pradesh: One of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, specifically mentioned for potential increases in staff and infrastructure like a Central Research Laboratory.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar Odisha: One of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, specifically mentioned as a model for establishing a Central Research Laboratory.
Central Research Laboratory C.R.L: A proposed research facility for AIIMS Bhopal, modeled after the facility in AIIMS Bhubaneswar.
Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test NORCET: A recruitment examination conducted by AIIMS Delhi for Nursing Officers across various AIIMS.
Common Recruitment Examination CRE: A recruitment examination conducted by AIIMS Delhi for Group B and C non-faculty positions across various AIIMS.
AIIMS Delhi: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, responsible for conducting recruitment exams like NORCET and CRE for other AIIMS.
Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana PMSSY: A Government initiative under which new AIIMS institutions were established, with details of sanctioned strength, Faculty, NonFaculty including SRJR, Nurses, Paramedicaland otherstaff provided in the annexure.
GOVERNMENTOFINDIA
MINISTRYOFHEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE
DEPARTMENTOFHEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARREDQUESTION NO. 1107
TO BE ANSWERED ON25/07/2025
INCREASEIN AIIMS PERSONNEL
†1107. SHRIDARSHAN SINGH CHOUDHARY:
Will the Ministerof HEALTHANDFAMILYWELFAREbe pleasedtostate:
(a) Whether the Government proposes to increase the number of doctors and other
paramedical staff in All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in the country,
particularly in Bhopal for the benefits of more patients in the region and if so, the details
thereof;
(b) Whether the Government proposes toset upa Central Research Laboratory (C.R.L) in
AIIMS, Bhopal onthe linesof AIIMS, Bhubaneswar; and
(c) if so, the detailsthereof?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OFSTATE IN THE MINISTRYOFHEALTH AND FAMILY
WELFARE
(SHRIPRATAPRAO JADHAV)
(a): Creation of posts & recruitment is a continuous process for ensuring effective
functioning of various departments in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The
details of faculty and non-faculty position in various AIIMS including AIIMS Bhopal is
placed at Annexure. In order to expeditiously fill vacant sanctioned faculty and non-faculty
positions invariousInstitutes, following steps have beentaken:
(i) Standing Selection Committee has been constituted in each AIIMS as per the
provision of AIIMS Act tofacilitate fillingupof vacantfacultypositions.
(ii) Provision has been made for engagement of retired faculty at the level of Professor,
Additional Professor and Associate Professor, on contract basis, in new AIIMS, up to the ageof 70 years from Institutes of National Importance (INIs) and Government Medical Colleges
(GMCs).
(iii) Visiting Faculty Scheme has been formulated to allow Professors, Additional
Professors and Associate Professors, who are holding academic positions in Government
Institutions within India or academic institutions outside India, to be the Visiting Faculty in
newAIIMS for teachingpurposes.
(iv) Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test (NORCET) is conducted by
AIIMS Delhi for recruitmentof Nursing Officers for variousAIIMS.
(v) Common Recruitment Examination (CRE) is conducted by AIIMS Delhi for recruitment
toGroup B andC non-facultypositions invariousAIIMS.
(vi) AIIMS Delhi conducts also conducts the Institute of National Importance Combined
Entrance Test (INI-CET) to select Junior Residents (Academic) and Institute of National
Importance Super Speciality (INI-SS) Exam to select Senior Residents (Academic) for
variousAIIMS.
(b) & (c): It is incumbent on each AIIMS to provide adequate infrastructure & facilities for
conductof research invariousbranches of sciencesbystudents & facultyof the institute.Annexure
Annexure referred to the reply to part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question
Number1107foransweron25.07.2025.
Details of sanctioned strength, Faculty, Non-Faculty (including SR/JR, Nurses,
Paramedicaland otherstaff) andthose inposition innewAIIMS set upunderPMSSY
Sr. Name of AIIMS & State Facultyposition Non-Facultyposition
No. Sanctione In-position Sanctioned In-position
d
1. Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) 305 234 3884 2885
2. Bhubaneswar (Odisha) 337 234 3963 2975
3. Jodhpur (Rajasthan) 405 219 4084 3142
4. Raipur (Chhattisgarh) 305 189 3884 2721
5. Patna(Bihar) 305 221 3884 2595
6. Rishikesh (Uttarakhand) 355 208 4095 2938
7. Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh) 309 151 1953 1153
8. Nagpur (Maharashtra) 373 234 2105 1160
9. Kalyani (West Bengal) 309 170 2221 994
10. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) 213 115 1492 977
11. Bathinda (Punjab) 219 140 2090 1140
12. Bilaspur (Himachal Pradesh) 217 126 1511 947
13. Guwahati (Assam) 183 115 1630 744
14. Deoghar (Jharkhand) 208 129 1712 879
15. Bibinagar(Telangana) 183 133 1374 902
16. Raebareli (Uttar Pradesh) 201 113 1425 1067
17. Rajkot (Gujarat) 183 76 1247 535
18. Madurai (Tamil Nadu) 183 49 911 43
19. Jammu (Jammu & Kashmir) 183 115 1311 818
20. Awantipora (Jammu & 94 - 252 2
Kashmir)
21. Rewari (Haryana) - - 7 1
22. Darbhanga (Bihar) - - 7 1