LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government signed a concession agreement with two private players to start medical colleges on Public Private Partnership mode in Sambhal and Maharajganj districts on Thursday.
The documents were exchanged at a ceremony organised in the presence of CM Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Brajesh Pathak, who also holds the medical education portfolio.
While the Siddhi Vinayak Trust of Bareilly has agreed to start the medical college in Sambhal, Shanti Foundation Trust is the PPP partner for the hospital in Maharajganj. Both the hospitals will have 330 beds each and the players have agreed to start the medical colleges functional by 2024. Yogi said: "As many as 16 districts in the state have no medical colleges while projects are underway in the others. It is the state's priority to ensure all districts have a medical college."
Principal secretary medical education, Alok Kumar II said: "The process to start medical colleges in the remaining underserved districts is underway. In some of them, the state will have to go in for bidding as multiple players have applied for it."
