Total Count- 48031: Health Minister gives break up of PG Medical, SS seats to parliament

New Delhi: There are total 48, 031 PG medical seats in the country in various broad specialities and super-speciality courses including MD, MS, DM, Mch, Diploma, as well as DNB and FNB courses.

Information to this effect was recently released by Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Shri Ashwani Kumar Choubey to the Lok Sabha while responding to a question on shortage in numbers of Doctorate of Medicine (MD) degree holders in the country .

The Minister replied that no data with regard to shortage of doctors is maintained centrally. However, the details of State-wise postgraduate medical seats including Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctorate of Medicine (DM) was then given by the minister

Providing a complete breakup of the PG Broad Specialty as well as Super-specialty seats in the country, the Choubey informed that there are total 34060 PG Medical Seats (MD/MD/DM/Mch/Dip) in medical colleges across the country and another 13,971 PG Medical seats with autonomous bodies including AIIMS, JIPMER, CPS, DNB as well as FNB (Natboard)

MD courses accounted for 19161 seats while there are 10363 seats in MS courses. The number of seats for DM courses was 1286 for this academic year while the number for Mch courses is 1283 seats.

There are total of 1967 Diploma seats in various medical colleges in the country, the data further revealed.

Besides these courses, there are a total of 13,971 PG Medical seats coming from autonomous bodies, with NBE taking lead with 8261 FNB/DNB seats and CPS having 2432 Diploma seats.

All the functioning AIIMS have a total of 2086 PG medical seats, with AIIMS Delhi only accounting of 1564 seats.

Besides the seats, another question was raised by MP Shri Dharambir Singh who questioned about the details of age limit and eligibility prescribed for Doctorate of Medicine (DM) and Doctor of Medicine (MD)

To this, the MOS health clarified that there is no age limit prescribed for doing Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctorate of Medicine (DM).

Following table provides the breakup of the State-wise postgraduate medical seats including Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctorate of Medicine (DM) as presented to the parliament:-

Number of PG Medical Seats
Sl. No.	State/UT	MD	MS	MCH	DM	Dip.	Total
1	Andhra Pradesh	1239	712	54	55	103	2163
2	Assam	388	216	13	10	48	675
3	Bihar	399	235	19	10	120	783
4	Chandigarh	93	37	0	3	0	133
5	Chhattisgarh	61	42	3	0	21	127
6	Delhi	787	351	79	69	116	1402
7	Goa	71	27	2	0	22	122
8	Gujarat	1220	661	58	49	116	2104
9	Haryana	367	153	12	6	36	574
10	Himachal Pradesh	188	110	2	2	13	315
11	Jammu & Kashmir	260	185	15	14	50	524
12	Jharkhand	98	57	1	2	39	197
13	Karnataka	2610	1371	134	144	185	4444
14	Kerala	781	354	100	123	177	1535
15	Madhya Pradesh	707	430	20	7	54	1218
16	Maharashtra	2363	1273	156	116	218	4126
17	Manipur	118	80	3	2	6	209
18	Meghalaya	19	8	0	2	0	29
19	Orissa	468	267	33	50	3	821
20	Pondicherry	295	144	5	1	2	447
21	Punjab	403	221	13	18	61	716
22	Rajasthan	947	456	73	61	25	1562
23	Sikkim	18	4	0	0	0	22
24	Tamil Nadu	1755	1077	249	277	210	3568
25	Telangana	1144	605	72	74	41	1936
25	Tripura	56	28	0	0	0	84
26	Uttar Pradesh	1303	692	94	102	148	2339
27	Uttarakhand	165	85	2	0	15	267
28	West Bengal	838	482	74	86	138	1618
	TOTAL	19161	10363	1286	1283	1967	34060

Other PG Medical Seats

S.No.	Institute	Number of Seats
1.	AIIMS, Dellhi	1564
2.	PGIMER, Chandigarh	941
3.	JIPMER, Puducherry	251
4.	AIIMS at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur, Rishikesh, Mangalagiri, Nagpur	522
5.	DNB and FNB	8261
6.	CPS Diploma	2432
	Grand Total	48031