Lucknow: After taking charge of Uttar Pradesh, which was called a sick state, in the year 2017, CM Yogi Adityanath took a pledge of One District One Medical College to make the state a healthy state. Due to the continuous efforts made in seven and a half years, today his resolution seems to be bearing fruit.
Where before the year 2017, the students of the state had to go to other states and abroad for a medical degree, today they are getting the facility to study medicine in the state itself. This has not only removed the shortage of doctors in the state as compared to earlier, but there has also been a comprehensive improvement in health services.
It is the result of CM Yogi’s consistent efforts that the number of medical colleges in the state has doubled in comparison to the last seven and a half years. At present, 78 medical colleges are operating in the state, whereas in the year 2017 their number was only 39. Similarly, in the last seven and a half years in the state, there has been an increase of 108 percent in MBBS seats and 181 percent in PG seats.
Admissions are being done on 11,200 MBBS and 3,781 PG seats. Director General of Medical Education and Training Uttar Pradesh Kinjal Singh said that continuous work is being done in the direction of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s resolution of One District One Medical College.
As a result of this, the number of medical colleges in the state has increased on a large scale. There were a total of 39 medical colleges in the year 2016-2017. These included 14 government and 25 private colleges. At the same time, due to the tireless efforts of the Yogi government, the number of medical colleges in the state has doubled in the last seven and a half years. At present, a total of 78 medical colleges are operating in the state.
These include 43 government and 35 private medical colleges. Not only this, in the last seven and a half years in the state, there has been an increase of 108 percent in MBBS seats and 181 percent in PG seats. In the year 2016-2017, the total MBBS seats in the state were 5,390. Of these, 1,840 MBBS seats were government and 3550 were private.
Today, in the year 2024-25, the total number of seats is 11,200. These include a total of 5150 government MBBS seats and 6050 private seats. Similarly, if we talk about PG seats, there were 1,344 seats in the year 2016-17. These include 741 government and 603 private seats.
Today, in the year 2024-25, their total number is 3,781. These include 1,759 government and 2022 private seats.
Medical colleges will also be established in Baghpat, Hathras and Kasganj
DGME Kinjal Singh said that in the current session 2024-25, the process of counseling is going on under All India Quota for 15 percent seats of 12 autonomous state medical colleges of the state namely Bijnor, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Chandauli, Bulandshahr, Pilibhit, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat and Kaushambi, while 85 percent of the seats have been allotted through state level UG NEET first cycle counseling. At the same time, a second appeal was planned before the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare to grant recognition to the medical college of Sonbhadra.
The construction work of the autonomous state medical college in Amethi is in progress. Its construction work has been completed 34 percent. To obtain the letter of permission for 100 seats in the year 2025-26, an application will be made as soon as the portal of NMC, New Delhi opens. Similarly, the construction work of Kalpanath Rai Institute of Medical Sciences in Mau is going on at a fast pace under the PPP mode. Here, an application will be made for the letter of permission of NMC in the upcoming academic session 2025-26. Along with this, a proposal will soon be placed before the cabinet for the establishment of medical colleges in Baghpat, Hathras and Kasganj under the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme of PPP mode.
