Eleven new Government Medical Colleges across Tamil Nadu and the new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai, will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 12 by way of video conferencing.
The new medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of about Rs 4000 crore, out of which around Rs 2145 crore has been provided by the Union government and rest by the Tamil Nadu government, according to the Prime Minister's office.
The districts in which the new Medical Colleges are being established are Virudhunagar, Namakkal, The Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri.
The new medical colleges, with cumulative capacity of 1450 seats, are being established under the Centrally Sponsored scheme of ’Establishing of New Medical Colleges attached with existing district or referral hospital’.
Under the scheme, medical colleges are established in districts, which do not have either a government or private medical college.