The government of Uttar Pradesh intends to increase access to medical education by constructing three new medical colleges in the districts of Baghpat, Hathras, and Kasganj. These colleges will be run under a public-private partnership (PPP) model and founded under the Central Government’s viability gap funding (VGF) plan. The state now has 11,200 MBBS seats; this increase will add 300 more. The state cabinet is expected to approve the plan for these new colleges.
Along with these new colleges, the autonomous state medical college in Amethi is currently being built; 34% of the project has already been finished. For the approval of 100 seats for the 2025–2026 academic year, an application will be made as soon as the National Medical Commission (NMC) webpage opens. Comparably, the PPP approach was also used to build the Kalpanath Rai Institute of Medical Sciences in Mau, which is almost finished. An application for NMC certification will be submitted for the 2025–2026 academic year.
In recent years, Uttar Pradesh has increased its capacity for medical education dramatically. The state has increased the number of medical institutes from 39 to 78 since 2017. Postgraduate (PG) seats have increased by 181% and MBBS seats by 108% as a result of this growth. Uttar Pradesh has 39 medical colleges in the 2016–17 academic year, 14 of which were government-run and 25 of which were private. There are currently 78 medical colleges in the state, 35 of which are privately managed and 43 of which are government-run.
In terms of MBBS seats, Uttar Pradesh had 5,390 total in 2016–17, comprising 3,550 seats in private colleges and 1,840 seats in government colleges. This figure has expanded to 11,200 seats by the 2024–2025 academic year, with 5,150 government seats and 6,050 private seats. Comparably, from 1,344 government and 603 private PG seats in the 2016–17 academic year to 3,781 government and 2,022 private PG seats in the 2024–25 academic year, the number of PG seats has increased.
The government of Uttar Pradesh is making these efforts to address the scarcity of healthcare professionals, improve healthcare services for the general public, and increase the availability of medical education in the state. The state’s dedication to offering its citizens high-quality medical education and healthcare services is shown in the opening of new colleges and the expansion of current ones.
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HINDUSTAN TIMES
