PM to virtually inaugurate 10 new med colleges in Maharashtra

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, will virtually inaugurate the 10 new govt medical colleges that were granted permission by the Centre to start MBBS programmes from this academic year. According to a media statement, the PM will launch the operationalisation of these colleges in the state, in line with the commitment to ensure affordable and accessible healthcare for all.
The colleges located in Mumbai, Ambernath, Nashik, Jalna, Amravati, Gadchiroli, Buldhana, Washim, Bhandara, and Hingoli were included in the third round of the ongoing admission process.While eight of these colleges were granted permission for 100 seats, the ones in Mumbai and Nashik were sanctioned 50 seats each, adding a total of 900 seats to the pool.
On Thursday, the CET cell released the names of eight of the colleges with their location and mentioned that a detailed seat matrix would be released soon. These eight colleges were granted permission by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare only last week, after the colleges made a second appeal and gave an undertaking stating that they would remove the deficiencies relating to the teaching posts and infrastructure at the earliest. In 2019, too, there was a massive jump of 950 seats in MBBS in the state, after the implementation of the EWS quota.
The media statement mentioned that these colleges, while enhancing the undergraduate and postgraduate seats, would also offer specialised tertiary healthcare to the people. PM Modi will inaugurate these colleges along with other projects. Events will be held across the 10 campuses by the local district officials, with Mumbai's event organised at SNDT Women's University.