Private Medical Colleges in The Country

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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 25^th 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
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