Andhra Pradesh to launch 5 New Medical Colleges this year, 750 MBBS Seats to be added

Andhra Pradesh- Bringing a major boost to the state's medical education, the Andhra Pradesh government is all set to launch five new medical colleges from the 2024-25 academic year.

According to TOI report, these five new government medical colleges will be established at Pulivendula, Paderu, Markapuram, Adoni and Madanapalle.Each of these five new government medical colleges will have 150 MBBS seats, with a total intake of 750 seats.

The daily adds that the state's Medical and Health Department has also applied to the now National Medical Commission (NMC) ersthwile Medical Council of India (MCI) for approval to start classes in these new colleges.

The Andhra Pradesh government planned to establish 17 government medical colleges in a period of three years and it has already been started from the academic year 2023-24 where the state Government has launched five medical colleges one each in Vijayanagaram, Eluru, Rajahmundry, Machilipatnam and Nandyal. Along with this, from the upcoming academic year i.e. 2025-26 the state government is planning to open seven more new medical colleges from the academic year.

“We are progressing with a clear agenda and timelines. We will get five more colleges during the upcoming academic year and another seven colleges from 2025-26 academic year," a senior official confirmed to TOI.

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As per the TOI report, this initiative emerged after Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy came to power in 2019. Soon after becoming the Chief Minister, Mr Reddy decided to bring 17 medical colleges under the government sector and directed the administration to prepare a plan. The CM has also given the green signal to the blueprint prepared by the State Medical and Health Department with an outlay of Rs 8,500 crore for these new medical colleges. Besides, to complete the projects on time, Jagan had also appointed dynamic IAS officer MT Krishna Babu as the head of the Medical and Health Department.

Moreover, with the establishment of these new medical colleges, the state government has also granted around 222 posts for each new medical college and 484 posts for each teaching hospital. With this, about 3,530 posts of various cadres, from professor to lab technician, were filled in the last five months.