Punjab Announces Four New Medical Colleges

These new medical colleges will come up at Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Malerkotla, Punjab Medical Education and Research Minister O P Soni said on Wednesday.

The Punjab government will set up four new government medical colleges at a cost of Rs 1,500 crore in the state, Medical Education and Research Minister O P Soni said on Wednesday. These colleges will come up at Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Malerkotla, Mr Soni said after laying the foundation stone of the boundary wall of Dr B R Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences. He said there will be no dearth of doctors in Punjab as soon 500 doctors will pass out every year from the medical colleges. Presently, there are about 1,400 MBBS seats in medical colleges of Punjab, which will go up by 500 with the opening of the colleges, Mr Soni said.