Telangana CM Chandrasekhar Rao inaugurated nine new govt medical colleges in the state on Friday. He said that eight such institutions will be opened in 2024. The inauguration of the new medical colleges comes a few months ahead of Telangana Assembly Elections 2023.
According to ANI, "T'gana CM Chandrasekhar Rao inaugurates nine new govt medical colleges; says 8 such institutions will be opened in 2024."
Speaking on the occasion, Rao told PTI, "The state cabinet had approved putting in place 34 government medical colleges in Telangana, like in no other state in the country. The number of medical colleges in the state has now reached 26 and eight more colleges are set to be opened by the start of the next academic year."
The nine colleges are present in Karimnagar, Kamareddy, Khammam, Bhupalapally, Asifabad, Nirmal, Sircilla, Vikarabad, and Jangaon.
Earlier, Health Minister T Harish Rao said that Telangana was undergoing a white coat revolution. He said, 26 government medical colleges are functioning in Telangana and eight more are ready to come up in the next academic year.
Harish Rao said that Telangana, which had the fewest MBBS seats in 2014, had now risen to the top with the most MBBS seats. He said the State would have 22 MBBS seats for every one lakh of its population, which was an achievement unlike any other in the nation.
Harish Rao said, 43% of the country's new MBBS seats this academic year are in Telangana. He emphasised that Telangana received just one medical college out of the 157 that the Centre has distributed since 2014.
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