2153 PG Medical Seats added in this academic session: MOS Health

New Delhi: 2153 PG medical seats have been added for the year 2019-20, the Minister of State in Health and Family Welfare, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey told the parliament.

Through a written reply answer to the question in Rajya Sabha the Ministry of State and family welfare, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed about the Increasing of Seats for PG Medical Courses in the country.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely "Up-gradation of existing State Government / Central Government Medical colleges to increase PG seats".

The funding pattern is 90:10 by Central and State Governments respectively for the North Eastern States and Special category States and 60:40 for other States with the upper ceiling cost pegged at Rs.1.20 crore per seat. 72 Government medical colleges in 21 States/UTs have been approved for increasing 4058 new PG seats under the Phase-I of the scheme and 5 Government medical colleges have been approved in 3 States for increasing 98 new PG seats under the Phase-II of the scheme till date.

Further, under section 10A of the IMC Act, 1956 applications were received for starting/increasing of PG courses/seats for the academic session 2019-20 and a total of 2153 new PG seats have been permitted, the minister aded

The minister further informed that the Union Government has approved/announced 22 new AIIMS in the country. Six AIIMS at Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Orissa), Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and Rishikesh (Uttaranchal) are functional.

A list showing current status of newly announced AIIMS is given below: