Tamil Nadu to add 11 new medical colleges at cost of Rs 4K Cr

PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated 11 new medical colleges in Tamil Nadu. Shortage of doctors has remained an issue for a very long time and the current government is making it a priority to address this critical gap. In 2014, the country had 387 medical colleges. In the last seven years, this number has gone up to 596 medical colleges. This is an increase of 54 per cent. The new medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of about Rs 4000 crore, out of which around Rs 2145 crore has been provided by the Union Government and rest by the Tamil Nadu government. The districts in which the new Medical Colleges are being established are Virudhunagar, Namakkal, The Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri.