Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has thanked the Union Government for granting permission for establishing new Medical Colleges at Chamba and Mandi.
The Medical College Chamba would be named as Pandit Jawahar lal Nehru Government Medical College with intake capacity of 100 MBBS students for session 2017-18. The Medical College Mandi would be in the name of lal Bahadur Shashtri and also have an annual intake of 100 MBBS students for the academic session 2017-18.
Singh has also thanked the Union Government for renewal of permission for admission of 2nd batch of 100 seats of MBBS students for the academic session 2017-18 in Dr Y.S. Parmar Government Medical College Nahan under the Himachal Pradesh University.
He said this would go a long way in strengthening the medical education in the State and would ensure qualified medical professional for providing quality education to the people.
He said the State Government would provide all desired infrastructure and human resources for the smooth functioning of these Medical Colleges.
The CM said the then UPA Government at the Centre had approved in principal three Medical Colleges for the State to be established at Chamba, Hamirpur and Nahan. He said that approval of establishing Medical College at Hamirpur is still awaited.
He assured the Union Government that the State Government would provide all necessary infrastructure required for the setting up
of the College.
Singh said that already Medical Colleges in the Government sector were already functioning in the State with a total intake of 200 MBBS students at Shimla and Tanda and the total MBBS seats in the State had gone upto 500.