The current doctor-population ratio is approximately 1:2000. To reach the desired target of 1:1000, the country will require an additional 15.4 lakh doctors.
To facilitate setting up more medical and nursing colleges and to increase the faculty in medical colleges, the Central Government has rationalized the respective norms in terms of teacher-students ratio, land requirement, bed strength, bed occupancy, maximum admission capacity and increase in age of teaching faculty, etc. The sanctioned strength of the undergraduate and postgraduate seats in medical colleges, State/UT-wise .
165 proposals have been received for setting up of new medical colleges during the last three years. For the current session 2012-13, the last date for receiving proposals by MCI is 30.09.2011. State-wise status of the proposals received during the last three years is at
As regards nursing colleges, there is a proposal to set up 6 colleges of nursing at the sites of AIIMS like institutions.This information was given by Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha (Sept 2011)
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