Financial Assistance given to Medical Colleges in Maharashtra: Minister informs Lok Sabha

New Delhi: Recently, through a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, minister of state (independent charge) Sh Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed about the Financial Assistance to Medical Colleges in the state of Maharastra .

The details of proposals approved by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for strengthening the Medical Colleges and District Hospitals in the State of Maharashtra are given below:

Centrally Sponsored Scheme for “Strengthening and upgradation of State Government Medical colleges for starting new Post Graduate (PG) disciplines and increasing PG seats”

SN	Name of the Medical College	Total Cost	Central Share	No. of PG seats to be created	Released in 2015-16	Released in 2016-17	Released in 2017-18 (till date)
1	Dr.ShankaraoChavan Govt. Medical College Nanded	44.603	30.1059	62	0	0	13.3809
2	Govt. Medical College Akola	39.97	26.9810	54	0	0
3	Govt. Medical College Latur	24.14	16.2920	64	0	0
4	Dr. V.M. Govt. Medical College, Solapur	26.5605	17.9282	69	0	0	7.9682
5	Govt. Medical College, Miraj	18.08	12.1840	39	0	0
6	Govt. Medical College Aurangabad	15.76	10.6380	86	0	0
7	Govt. Medical College Yavatmal	7.92	5.3460	67	0	0	2.376
8	B.J. Medical College &Sasoon General Hospital, Pune	39.84	26.8920	89	0	0	11.952
9	Govt. Medical College Dhule	47.89	32.3270	62	0	0
10	Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur	48.55	32.7700	52	0	0
11	Swami Ram Teerath Rural Medical College, Ambajogai	32.48	21.9240	48	0	0	9.744
	Total	345.7935	233.3881	692	0	0	45.4211

(Rs. in crore)

PMSSY Scheme:

Upgradation of several medical colleges in the State of Maharashtra has been undertaken and funds have been released for this purpose as stated below:

	Funds Released under PMSSY Scheme (in Rs. Crore)
GMCIs	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	Total
GMC, Mumbai	0	8.37	0.88	0.75	10
GMC, Nagpur	0	13	20.71	0	33.71
GMC, Aurangabad	0	2.25	16.99	43.929	63.169
GMC, Latur	0	2.23	16.63	40.15	59.01
GMC, Akola	0	7.475	7.475	0.05	15
SVNGMC, Yavatmal	0	7.436	7.436	67.12	81.992
TOTAL	0	40.761	70.121	151.999

One district namely Gondia in Maharashtra has been identified and approved under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals. Details in this regard are given below:

Funds released to Govt. of Maharashtra under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals are as below:-

(Rs. in crore)

	District	Approved Cost	Central Share (60%)	Total amount released (till date)
1	Gondia	189.00	113.40	88.00

The medical college at Gondia is already functional.