As many as 157 medical colleges are under various stages of implementation across the country.
Of these 58 colleges are in Phase-I of the implementation, 24 in Phase-II and another 75 in Phase-III which were announced recently.
Besides, there were 50,000 medical college seats in the country till 2014 and after that, in the last six years, 30,000 additional medical college seats have been created. More seats will be added with the setting up of these new colleges.
So far 22 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have been sanctioned by the government. Out of these, 16 AIIMS have been in different stages of implementation since the last seven years.
The government in its second tenure has sanctioned as many as 75 medical colleges across the country. These are preferably in the aspirational districts and areas.
Under Phase-III, four medical colleges have been approved in Karnataka in the year 2019-20 to be established at Chikkamagaluru, Haveri, Yadgiri and Chikkaballapura with intake capacity of 150 MBBS seats each.
The medical colleges have been approved at a cost of Rs 325 crore each to be shared between the Centre and the state governments in the ratio of 60:40.