The National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Jhajjar, Haryana, which is also India's largest cancer hospital, opened for public service on 18 December 2018. The formal inauguration of the institute will take place in January 2019.

The institute is a project under Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The cancer centre will take off some load from AIIMS which receives more than 1,000 patients daily. The proper functioning of all departments at NCI will start from January 2019. This has been divided into three phases with Phase-I likely to have 250 beds available for the public. The project has been built at a cost of Rs 2,035 crore.

The indoor admissions will also be opened to the public in a phased manner by mid-January 2019. The new facility will be the nodal institution for all activities related to cancer cases in the country and will have linkages with regional cancer centres and other cancer institutes within the country.

It will act as the premier institute for cancer, identify priority areas for research and development and related areas, will carry out basic and applied research in molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, cancer epidemiology, radiation biology, cancer vaccines and more.

The NCI will evolve model cancer control strategies for the developing world which will include newer modalities of prevention, early diagnosis and therapy. It will also act as a centre for development of human resource in various branches of cancer management. Apart from these, there will be facilities for training and capacity building.

By December 2019, indoor admissions will be increased up to 500 beds and then in another one year plans are afoot to make it fully operational.