NEW DELHI, Sep 27: The union Cabinet has approved addition of 10,023 new medical seats with an investment of Rs. 15,034 crore as part of the goal to create 75,000 medical seats within the next five years.
These include 5,000 post-graduate and 5,023 undergraduate seats in existing government colleges and hospitals by 2028-29, an official spokesman said today.
At a meeting here chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi it was also decided to double the number of medical colleges to 808 in 2025-26 from 387 in 2013-14, with undergraduate seats up 141 percent and postgraduate seats up 144 percent.
New 2025 regulations allow experienced government specialists to become professors without mandatory residency requirements. Initiative specifically targets underserved communities while positioning India as a global hub for affordable healthcare.
”This will improve our healthcare system and enhance medical education infrastructure. It will ensure that every part of India has availability of skilled doctors,” the Prime Minister Narendra said in a post on X on September 24.
The country has significantly expanded its medical infrastructure over the past decade, yet the demand continues to outpace supply.
The total investment is Rs. 15,034 crore covering the period from 2025-26 to 2028-29. Of this, 68.5 percent amounting to Rs. 10,303.20 crore will be funded by the union government while the remaining Rs. 4,731.30 crore will be contributed by the states. The investment per seat is Rs. 1.5 crore.
Prime Minister Modi envisions 75,000 additional medical seats in the next five years, and this new approval made on September 24, 2025, is a step towards that goal, the spokesman added.
India has the highest number of medical colleges (808) and has been expanding its medical educational infrastructure for years.
There are 1,23,700 MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) seats today. In the last decade, 69,352 seats were added, a growth of 127 percent. During this period 43,041 post-graduate seats were added, a growth of 143 percent.
A total of 22 new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were approved under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, which aims to make affordable and reliable tertiary healthcare accessible to all people and regions and improve the quality of medical education in the country, the spokesman added.
(UNI)
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