As many as 113 new medical colleges have received approval from the National Medical Commission (NMC), with maximum number in Uttar Pradesh. UP has got the nod for establishing 22 new medical colleges, followed by Maharashtra with 14, Rajasthan with 12 and Telangana with 11 colleges.

West Bengal will get eight, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh will have seven each, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with five and Kerala with two. Uttarakhand will get three new medical colleges. Odisha and Gujarat will get two medical colleges each. Also, Haryana, Delhi, Assam, Punjab, Sikkim and Tripura got approval for setting up one medical college each.

In a public notice dated 06 July, 2024, the NMC Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) said that the final decisions of MARB concerning 113 applications have been communicated to the medical institutions/colleges. There are 706 medical colleges in the country, and with the approval of new medical colleges, the number has crossed 800. While 50 are government medical colleges, the rest are private or deemed medical colleges. The number of seats for an undergraduate course (MBBS) has also increased by almost 110 percent, while the number of postgraduate seats rose almost 118 per cent from 31,185 in 2013-14 to 68,073 in 2023-24.

The NMC has made some changes to the establishment of medical colleges, allowing medical colleges to start with only 50 seats if they have a functional hospital and faculties in all the clinical departments. Hospitals will have at least a capacity of 200 beds and 20 ICU beds. NMC aims to set up new medical colleges in every district of the country.