Infrastructure

Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities

India to Get 75 New Medical Colleges in Next 3 Years, Centre to Spend INR 24,375 Crore on Them

Continuing the focus on the creation of health care infrastructure, the Central Government had earlier approved to establish 58 new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals under Phase-I and 24 under Phase-II. Of this, 39 medical colleges under Phase-I, have already started functioning, while the remaining 19 would be made functional by 2020-21. Under Phase-II, 18 new medical colleges have been approved.