Last Updated: 8 April 2025

TARGET:
-- Establish Tertiary Care Super Specialist Hospitals
-- Make Punjab a hub of Medical education & services

EXISTING: Till Jul2022^[1]:

Punjab has only 12 medical colleges
-- 4 government, 6 privates, 1 PPP mode and 1 Centre-run
-- Total only 1,750 MBBS seats (800 government & 950 private)

• Upgrading Existing Medical Colleges Mohali College re-Designed & under construction

¶ 1. Kapurthala: Shri Guru Nanak Dev State Institute of Medical Sciences^[2]

• Will be built on a 20-acre site
• With 100 MBBS seats

¶ 2. Hoshiarpur: Shaheed Udham Singh State Institute of Medical Sciences^[3]

• 100 MBBS seats are being established
• College will also prove to be a boon for many districts of Himachal Pradesh
• Build with an amount of 460cr on 23 acer of land
• Have Earthquake resistant building

¶ 3. Sangrur: Sant Attar Singh State Institute of Medical Sciences^[3:1]

• 100 MBBS seats will be established

¶ 4. Malerkotla: Nawab Sher Mohammad Khan Government Medical College^[3:2]

• It is a minority medical College
• 100 seats for MBBS will be established

¶ 5. Nawanshahr: Shaheed Bhagat Singh Government Medical College at Barnala Kalan village^[4]

• college will have 50 MBBS seats
• cost of Rs 300 crore

References:

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1. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/92814785.cms ↩︎

2. https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/education-today/news/story/punjab-to-soon-get-rs-42869-crore-medical-college-named-after-guru-nanak-dev-2302595-2022-11-28 ↩︎

3. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/four-new-medical-colleges-to-come-up-in-stategovernor-484961 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

4. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/punjab-cm-mann-lays-foundation-stone-of-shaheed-bhagat-singh-govt-medical-college/ ↩︎