Maha Govt sanctions Rs 210 crore for new Medical College at GT Hospital Campus
South Mumbai to Get New Medical College at GT Hospital
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has sanctioned ₹210 crore for the establishment of a new government medical college on the Gokuldas Tejpal (GT) Hospital campus in south Mumbai.
The project will include a dedicated college building, as well as hostels for boys and girls and staff quarters, to be developed on a 7,091-square-metre plot located between GT Hospital and Cama & Albless Hospital at Fort. The land, currently housing a building for Class 4 government employees, falls under the jurisdiction of the state public works department and will be cleared to make way for new construction.
According to the plan, the college building itself will come up within the GT Hospital campus. Recruitment for the teaching staff is already underway, with the Maharashtra Public Service Commission tasked with appointing new professors. Initially, the college will offer 50 MBBS seats, with plans to increase the intake to 100 in the coming years, the medical education minister, Hasan Mushrif, announced earlier in the state legislative assembly.
As per National Medical Commission (NMC) norms, a postgraduate medical college must be attached to a hospital with at least 650 beds and 15,000 sq. metres of floor space. GT Hospital, with 1,026 beds, comfortably exceeds these requirements.
Speaking to TOI, a senior medical official said, "It will have all the required facilities as per NMC guidelines. The lecture halls will be able to accommodate 200 students if the govt asks us to expand at any point,"
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) currently operates four medical colleges in the city—at KEM Hospital in Parel, Nair Hospital at Mumbai Central, Sion Hospital, and Cooper Hospital—whose combined intake capacity is 850 MBBS students. The state government-run JJ Hospital in Byculla, the only major teaching hospital in south Mumbai, caters to another 250 MBBS students, reports the Hindustan Times.
The BMC is also setting up another medical facility on a public-private partnership (PPP) model at Shatabdi College. An earlier proposal to establish a medical college on the St George’s Hospital campus was shelved due to heritage-related restrictions.
