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Posted On: 23 MAR 2021 4:31 PM by PIB Delhi

There are 276 Private Medical Colleges in the country.

As per information provided by the National Medical Commission (NMC), 82 Private medical colleges have been established after 2014.

As per information provided by the National Medical Commission (NMC), 37 applications for establishment of private medical colleges have been received for the academic year 2021-22.

The India Medical Association (IMA) is a private organisation of registered medical practitioners and is not authorised to conduct an inspection of medical colleges. The statutory body constituted under the provisions of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 to regulate medical education in the country was Medical Council of India (MCI) which has now been replaced with the National Medical Commission, constituted with effect from 25th September 2020. As per the information provided by the NMC, the number of private medical colleges that were found deficit in terms of requirement of faculty, infrastructure, equipment and clinical material on inspection by erstwhile MCI or by NMC during 2018-19, 2019-20 & 2020-21 is as under. These colleges were not granted permission of renewal to admit a fresh batch of students.

Year No. of Colleges
2018-19 56
2019-20 15
2020-21 3

 

State-wise details of Private medical colleges.

Sl. No. State Private Medical college
1 Andhra Pradesh 18
2 A & N Islands 0
3 Assam 0
4 Arunachal Praresh 0
5 Bihar 7
6 Chandigarh 0
7 Chhattisgarh 3
8 D& N Haveli 0
9 Delhi 2
10 Goa 0
11 Gujarat 13
12 Haryana 7
13 Himachal Pradesh 1
14 Jammu & Kashmir 1
15 Jharkhand 1
16 Karnataka 42
17 Kerala 21
18 Madhya Pradesh 9
19 Maharashtra 34
20 Manipur 0
21 Meghalaya 0
22 Mizoram 0
23 Nagaland 0
24 Orissa 4
25 Pondicherry 7
26 Punjab 7
27 Rajasthan 8
28 Sikkim 1
29 Tamil Nadu 27
30 Telangana 23
31 Tripura 1
32 Uttar Pradesh 31
33 Uttarakhand 2
34 West Bengal 6
  TOTAL 276

 

The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Sh. Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha here today.

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