Parliament Question: Establishment of Government Medical College

GOVERNMENT OFINDIA MINISTRYOFHEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH AND FAMILYWELFARE LOK SABHA UNSTARREDQUESTION NO. 3304 TOBE ANSWERED ON07thAUGUST 2026 ESTABLISHMENTOFGOVERNMENT MEDICALCOLLEGE

3304. SHRIMALVINDER SINGH KANG:

Will the Ministerof HEALTH AND FAMILYWELFAREbe pleasedtostate:

(a) whether the Government has undertaken any scheme to establish Government Medical Collegesinalldistricts of the country;

(b) if so, the detailsthereof,State/UT-wise;

(c) whether Rupnagar (Ropar) district in Punjab has been considered under the said scheme; and

(d) if so, the current status of the proposal and the likely timeline for the commencement of construction of the Medical College inthe district? ANSWER THE MINISTER OFSTATE IN THE MINISTRYOFHEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. ANUPRIYAPATEL)

(a) to (d): The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare administers a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for ‘Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals’ with preference to underserved areas and aspirational districts, where there is no existing Government or private medical college. The fund sharing mechanism between the Centre and State Governments is in the ratio of 90:10 for North Eastern and Special Category States, and 60:40 for others. Under the Scheme, all the envisaged 157 medical colleges have been approved in three phases, including 03 medical colleges in Punjab at SAS Nagar, Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur. The phase wise details of medical colleges approved in the country are at Annexure. However, no proposal for setting upof Medical College at Rupnagar(Ropar) hasbeenreceivedfrom the Stateof Punjab.

******Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.

3304foranswer on07.08.2026 Annexure State-wise details of 157 Medical Colleges approved under the Centrally Sponsored scheme for ‘Establishment of newmedicalcollegesattachedwith existingdistrict/referral hospitals’ No. of S.No State/UT Districts colleges Phase-I(58) 1 A& N Islands 1 PortBlair 2 Arunachal Pradesh 1 Naharlagun 3 Assam 4 Dhubri, Nagaon, North Lakhimpur, Diphu 4 Bihar 3 Purnia,Saran (Chhapara),Samastipur 5 Chhattisgarh 2 Rajnandgaon,Sarguja 6 HimachalPradesh 3 Chamba,Hamirpur, Nahan (Sirmour) 7 Haryana 1 Bhiwani 8 Jharkhand 3 Dumka, Hazaribagh,Palamu (Daltonganj) 9 Jammu & Kashmir 5 Anantnag,Baramulla, Rajouri,Doda, Kathua 7 Datia, Khandwa, Ratlam, Shahdol, Vidisha, 10 Madhya Pradesh Chindwara, Shivpuri 11 Maharashtra 1 Gondia 12 Meghalaya 1 West Garo Hills (Tura) 13 Mizoram 1 Falkawn 14 Nagaland 1 Naga Hospital (Kohima) 15 5 Balasore, Baripada (Mayurbhanj), Bolangir, Koraput, Odisha Puri 16 Punjab 1 SASNagar Barmer, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Churu, Dungarpur, Pali, 17 Rajasthan 7 Sikar 18 Uttar Pradesh 5 Basti, Faizabad, Firozabad,Shahjahanpur, Bahraich 19 Uttarakhand 1 Almora Birbhum (Rampur Hat), Cooch Behar, Diamond 20 West Bengal 5 Harbour, Purulia,Raiganj (North Dinajpur) Phase –II (24) 1 Bihar 5 Sitamarhi, Jhanjharpur,Siwan,Buxar, Jamui 2 Jharkhand 2 Koderma, Chaibasa (Singhbhum) 3 Madhya Pradesh 1 Satna 4 Odisha 1 Jajpur 5 Rajasthan 1 Dholpur 6 Uttar Pradesh 8 Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar

(Domariyaganj),Deoria, Ghazipur,Mirzapur 7 West Bengal 5 Barasat, Uluberia, Arambagh, Jhargram,Tamluk 8 Sikkim 1 Gangtok Phase-III (75) 1 Andhra Pradesh 3 Piduguralla, Paderu,Machilipatnam 2 Assam 1 KokrajharNo. of S.No State/UT Districts colleges 3 Chhattisgarh 3 Korba, Mahasamund, Kanker 4 Gujarat 5 Narmada,Navsari, Panchmahal, Porbandar, Morbi 5 Jammu & Kashmir 2 Udhampur, Handwara (Distt. Kupwara) 6 Karnataka 4 Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgiri,Chikkaballapura 7 Ladakh 1 Leh 8 Madhya Pradesh 6 Rajgarh, Mandla, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Sheopur, Singrauli 9 Maharashtra 1 Nandurbar 10 Manipur 1 Churachandpur 11 Nagaland 1 Mon 12 Odisha 1 Kalahandi 13 Punjab 2 Kapurthala,Hoshiarpur 14 Rajasthan 15 Alwar, Baran, Bansawara, Chittorgarh, Jaisalmer, Karauli, Nagaur, Shri Ganganagar, Sirohi, Bundi, SawaiMadhopur, Tonk, Hanumangarh, Jhunjhunu, Dausa 15 Uttarakhand 3 Rudrapur (Distt. Udham Singh Nagar), Pithoragarh, Haridwar 16 Uttar Pradesh 14 Bijnaur, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur, LakhimpurKheri, Chandauli, Bulandshahar, Sonbhadra, Pilibhit, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kaushambi, Amethi 17 Tamil Nadu 11 Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Ramanathapuram, Namakkal, Dindigul, Virudhunagar, Krishnagiri, Tiruvallur,Nagapattinam, Ariyalur, Kallakurichi 18 West Bengal 1 Jalpaiguri