79627 MBBS seats in 536 Medical Colleges: Health Minister provides breakup to Parliament

New Delhi: There are 79,627 MBBS seats at 536 total medical colleges operating in the country out of which 276 are government medical colleges while 260 are private medical colleges.

Information to this effect was recently given by the MOS Health to the parliament while he was responding to the questions on the existing number of Government and Private Medical Colleges in the country. The minister also provided a state-wise breakup of the medical colleges and their corresponding MBBS seats

Karnataka yet again topped the list with the highest number of Medical Colleges i.e. 59 and the total of 9145 annual intakes in MBBS courses. The state has a total of 19 government medical colleges and 40 private medical colleges.

In terms of a number of medical colleges, second on the list is Uttar Pradesh with a total of 55 medical colleges (24 government and 31 private) adding a total of 7525 MBBS seats to the national pool.

Maharashtra while having lesser number of medical colleges than UP had higher number of MBBS seats with the state offering 8580 MBBS seats in 52 medical colleges (24 government medical colleges with 4310 seats and 28 private medical colleges with 4270 seats.)

Bagging the fourth position is Tamil Nadu with 26 government medical college with 3400 MBBS seats per year and 23 private colleges with the total annual seats of 3750 MBBS seats.

When it comes to the total number of practising allopathy doctors, Maharashtra topped the list with 1,73,384 number of Doctors Registered with State Medical Councils / Medical Council of India as on 31st of March 2019.

As on 31st of March 2019, the total of 11,59,309 doctors is registered with the State Medical Council-Medical Council of India. With the highest of 173384 doctors in Maharashtra. Tamil Nadu bagged the 2nd position with a total of 135456 doctors. Third on the list is Karnataka with a total of 122875 Doctors.

Following is the breakup of medical colleges and their intake capacity

NUMBER OF MEDICAL COLLEGES WITH INTAKE CAPACITY IN THE COUNTRY
State	Government		Private		Total
	No. of College	Seats	No. of Colleges	Seats	No. of Colleges	Seats
Andhra Pradesh	12	2360	18	2800	30	5160
A & N Islands	1	100	0	0	1	100
Assam	6	900	0	0	6	900
Arunachal Pradesh	1	50	0	0	1	50
Bihar	9	1140	5	600	14	1740
Chandigarh	1	100	0	0	1	100
Chhattisgarh	6	770	3	450	9	1220
Delhi	7	1115	2	200	9	1315
D & Nagar Haveli	1	150	0	0	1	150
Goa	1	180	0	0	1	180
Gujarat	17	3350	12	1840	29	5190
Haryana	5	760	7	1000	12	1760
Himachal Pradesh	6	720	1	150	7	870
J & k	7	885	1	100	8	985
Jharkhand	3	380	0	0	3	380
Karnataka	19	2800	40	6345	59	9145
Kerala	10	1505	24	2700	34	4205
Madhya Pradesh	13	1870	9	1600	22	3470
Maharashtra	24	4310	28	4270	52	8580
Manipur	2	200	0	0	2	200
Meghalaya	1	50	0	0	1	50
Mizoram	1	100	0	0	1	100
Orissa	7	1150	4	500	11	1650
Pondicherry	1	180	7	1050	8	1230
Punjab	3	600	5	475	8	1075
Rajasthan	14	2600	8	1300	22	3900
Sikkim	0	0	1	100	1	100
Tamil Nadu	26	3400	23	3750	49	7150
Telangana	10	1740	22	3250	32	4990
Tripura	1	125	1	100	2	225
Uttar Pradesh	24	3225	31	4300	55	7525
Uttarakhand	3	425	2	300	5	725
West Bengal	18	3000	6	850	24	3850
INIs*	16	1357	0	0	16	1357
TOTAL	276	41597	260	38030	536	79627
INIs (AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur, Rishikesh, Manglagiri, Nagpur, RaeBareli, Gorakhpur, Kalyani, Deoghar, Bhatinda, Bibinagar and JIPMER Puducherry)