Eight new medical colleges in Telangana from this year

Eight medical colleges will become operational in Telangana from academic year 2022–23, state minister for health and finance T. Harish Rao said on Sunday.

Telangana medical college.

Telangana medical collegeOne of these medical colleges has come up in tribal area Kothagudem in Bhadradri Kothagudem district.

The minister said that despite the Centre’s discrimination towards Telangana, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao took the historic initiative to set up one medical college each in all 33 district.

Harish Rao pointed out that in the last seven decades only five medical colleges were set up in Telangana but in the last eight years after formation of Telangana, 12 new medical colleges were sanctioned. Sixteen new medical colleges are being set up, making it one medical college per district.

The minister claimed that Telangana made several representations to the Centre for medical colleges but not a single medical college was sanctioned.Read more