11 new nursing colleges with 100 seats each to come up in Tamil Nadu
Chennai: The Central government has sanctioned 11 new nursing colleges for Tamil Nadu and they would be established at an outlay of Rs 10 crore each, State Health Minister Ma Subramanian said on Friday.
These colleges, offering 100 undergraduate seats, would be built next to the state-run medical colleges, he said.
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Despite the state already having six nursing colleges, there have always been pleas to start additional colleges.
“During my meeting with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya two months ago, I requested for according sanction for 30 new nursing colleges in the state, owing to the huge demand for them. Eleven new nursing colleges were sanctioned for Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening,” Subramanian told reporters here.
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