Maharashtra has 48 medical colleges including 16 run by the state government, of which 6,695 under-graduate.1139 post-graduate degree and 261 post-graduate diploama seats.
Medical education minister Girish Mahajan told dna that they were planning a composite institution in Jalgaon which will offer training in medicine, dentistry and nursing. The department has an ambitious plan to operationalize it in 2019. However, five of the seven proposed government medical colleges announced in the past have not come to fruition.
A senior official from the state medical education department said that a committee had visited Jalgaon district to finalise land for the project. "A 25-acre plot of land has been finalised," said Mahajan. He added that at present, the North Maharashtra region has only one functional state-run medical college at Dhule.
The erstwhile Congress- NCP led state government had floated plans for these new medical colleges, most of which were to be located in the constituencies and influence zones of politicians and ministers which included then chief minister Prithviraj Chavan (Satara), deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar (Baramati), medical education minister Dr Vijaykumar Gavit (Nandurbar), union minister Praful Patel (Gondia) and health minister Suresh Shetty (Mumbai). Mahajan too hails from Jalgaon.
The official said that while the medical colleges at Chandrapur and Gondia were functional, work was underway at Baramati with plans to make it operational by 2018. However, work is yet to begin at Nandurbar, Alibaug and Satara due to non-availability of land while the state is reconsidering the plans for a government medical college in Mumbai. In 2002, three medical colleges with an intake of 300 under-graduate seats were started at Kolhapur, Latur and Akola. In 1989, medical colleges were started at Dhule, Yavatmal and Nanded, with 150 MBBS seats and 1975 saw the Ambejogai medical college being established.
"We are having second thoughts on the plans for a college in Mumbai. The building which was supposed to house it is now being used for various Mantralaya departments. The BMC has also started a new medical college in the premises of the Cooper hospital," the official said, adding that the alternate site at Borivali for the medical college was not convenient.
While the medical college at Mumbai was supposed to be started at the G.T and Saint George hospitals in South Mumbai, part of the G.T Hospital was taken over for its offices by the government after the 2012 fire in the state administrative headquarters of Mantralaya.
Maharashtra has 48 medical colleges including 16 run by the state government. These colleges have a total of around 6,695 under-graduate, 1,139 post-graduate degree and 261 post-graduate diploma seats. These new medical colleges would have added seats in public sector medical education institutions. This would come as a huge relief for aspiring students since there is always a huge competition to get admission to the government medical colleges as compared to costly private sector medical education.
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