LUCKNOW: Nine new medical colleges will get functional in Uttar Pradesh in a week with PM Narendra Modi inaugurating them at an official ceremony on July 9. With this, the total number of medical colleges in the state would increase to 48. Officials said new government medical colleges would come up at Deoria, Etah, Fatehpur, Ghazipur, Hardoi, Jaunpur, Mirzapur, Pratapgarh and Siddharthnagar.
Officials in the medical education department said that four additional medical colleges would get functional by the end of the year. About the nine new medical colleges, officials said that selection of 70% faculty members required in these colleges has been finalised while the process for remaining was under way. They stated that PM Modi would hand over the appointment letters to over 450 staff members of these colleges.
Officials stated that as many as 36 new medical colleges have been added to the state after March 2017, when Yogi Adityanath took over as UP CM.
“There were just 12 medical colleges in UP till March 2017. But the BJP government announced to raise more medical colleges and ensure that people of the state do not have to travel to other states for treatment," a spokesperson said.
