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Centre approves 3 new medical colleges for Gujarat in Porbandar, Navsari, Rajpipla
Under the scheme 60 per cent of the cost for setting up such medical colleges i e Rs 195 crore for each would be provided by the central government as grant while the remaining 130 crore (of total 325 crore for each) would be spend by the state government.
Gandhinagar: Three new medical colleges will soon be set up in Porbandar, Navsari and Rajpipla of the western state as Central government has approved the state's proposal, Deputy Chief Minister Nitinbhai Patel said here on Wednesday.
The Cabinet minister for Health and Medical Education also said that the state government had in October 2019 recommended three new medical colleges in tribal dominant Rajpipla- district headquarter town of Narmada district, Navsari in South Gujarat and Porbandar- the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi in coastal Saurashtra region of the western state.
The recommendations were sent under the scheme of the center in which it had in August last year taken a decision to start 75 new medical colleges in the country in those areas where such facility was not available.
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Under the scheme 60 per cent of the cost for setting up such medical colleges i e Rs 195 crore for each would be provided by the central government as grant while the remaining 130 crore (of total 325 crore for each) would be spend by the state government.
Notably, the state government had later sent recommendations to open five more new medical colleges and attached 300 bed hospitals in Godhra of Panchmahal district, Veraval of Gir Somnath, Jamkhambhaliya of Devbhoomi Dwarka district, Botad and Morbi. So far no decision has been taken in this regard.
Under the scheme it was mandatory to keep the 300 bed hospitals in the medical college premises but now it has been relaxed and the distance between the two could be up to 10 km. Patel said that currently there were in all 5,500 medical seats in Gujarat.
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