Orissa lags behind most states in terms of medical colleges
September 9th, 2009
Following is an excerpt from deshgujarat.com.
… at present Maharashtra possesses highest 40 permitted medical colleges in the country. Karnataka has 38, Andhra Pradesh has 33 and Tamilnadu has 30 medical colleges. Kerala has 22 medical colleges, Uttar Pradesh has 21, Gujarat has 14, West Bengal has 10, Madhya Pradesh has 9, Rajasthan has 9, Bihar has 8, Pondicherry has 8, Punjab has 8, Orissa has 6, Delhi has 6, Jammu & Kashmir has 4, Uttaranchal has 4, Assam has 3, Haryana has 3, Jharkhand has 3, Chhattisgarh has 2, Tripura has 1, Sikkim has 1, Manipur has 1, Goa has 1, Chandigarh has 1 medical-college.
… Nationwide, ten new medical colleges opened this year, three of them were in Gujarat. Kerala, Tamilnadu and Uttar Pradesh each added two new medical colleges this year, while Madhya Pradesh added one.
…five more new medical colleges are in pipeline in the state [Gujarat] and the government intends to start them in next academic year.
The Gujarat Government plans to start two new medical colleges in Ahmedabad by next year at Ahmedabad based Sola Civil Hospital under a charitable trust and another college at Asarwa Swadeshi Mill Compound by Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute(GCRI).The colleges each have 150 seats and a proposal is at present under process at Medical Council of India.
The government also plans to start three new medical colleges in next academic year at Vadodara, Patan and Valsad also will get new medical colleges . While medical college in Vadodara will be attached with TB hospital, the medical colleges in Patan and Valsad will be attached with the government hospitals there.
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1. jagamohan swain | September 9th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
It’s a shame that state govt has been an abject failure in promoting medical education in the state.I have already written earlier that Kerala with a population less that Orissa has over 2200 MBBS seats where as Orissa has merely 700.
how about each major city in Orissa demanding a medical college for their city.Now won’t that be a goal worth pursuing, instead of crying hoarse over what BBSR has got and what it hasn’t got??