New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- The union Cabinet has approved addition of 10,023 new medical seats with an investment of Rs. 15,034 crore as part of the goal to create 75,000 medical seats within the next five years.
These include 5,000 post-graduate and 5,023 undergraduate seats in existing government colleges and hospitals by 2028-29, an official spokesman said today.
At a meeting here chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi it was also decided to double the number of medical colleges to 808 in 2025-26 from 387 in 2013-14, with undergraduate seats up 141 percent and postgraduate seats up 144 percent.
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