Opening of New Medical Colleges

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New Delhi, March 15, 2018: As per information provided by Medical Council of India, there are a total 10,41,395 allopathic doctors registered with the State Medical Councils/Medical Council of India as on 30th September, 2017. Assuming 80% availability, it is estimated that around 8.33 lakh doctors may be actually available for active service. It gives a doctor-population ratio of 1:1596 as per current population estimate of 1.33 billion. However, WHO norms prescribes that there should be 1 doctor amongst the population of 1,000. Further, details of approvals granted by the Government for opening of new medical colleges in order to increase healthcare services from 2014-15 to 2017-18 are given below:

Number of approved schemes for opening new Medical Colleges from 2014-15 to 2016-17 and status of applications for the year 2018-19 
SL. 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Approved Approved Approved Approved Received Proposal are under consideration of the Ministry.
Last  date for issuing approval/
disapproval letter to the applicant Colleges is 31.05.2018 for the year 2018-19
1 Andhra Pradesh 3 1 4 0 0
2 Assam 1 0 0 0 1
3 Bihar 0 0 0 0 4
4 Chhattisgarh 1 0 3 0 1
5 Delhi 0 0 1 0 0
6 Gujarat 0 2 1 2 7
7 Himachal Pradesh 0 0 1 2 1
8 Haryana 0 1 2 2 4
9 J & K 0 0 0 0 0
10 Jharkhand 0 0 0 0 5
11 Karnataka 1 3 6 1 8
12 Kerala 5 0 3 1 3
13 Madhya Pradesh 1 1 5 0 8
14 Maharashtra 1 3 2 1 5
15 Orissa 0 0 0 2 2
16 Punjab 0 0 0 0 0
17 Rajasthan 2 1 3 0 9
18 Tamil Nadu 0 1 3 1 5
19 Uttar Pradesh 2 4 9 2 11
20 Uttarakhand 0 0 2 0 1
21 West Bengal 0 0 1 0 3
22 Sikkim 0 0 0 0 0
23 Meghalya 0 0 0 0 0
24 Nagaland 0 0 0 0 0
25 Arunachal Pradesh 0 0 0 0 1
26 Mizoram 0 0 0 0 1
27 Tripura 0 0 0 0
28 Puducherry 0 0 0 0 0
28 Telangana 0 0 5 0 5
30 A & C Nicobar 0 1 0 0 0
Total 17 18 51 14 85

 

The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Smt Anupriya Patel stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha here today.