2,119 MBBS seats in AIIMS; 74% faculty positions vacant in AIIMS Madurai: Govt
3 AIIMS are yet to start functioning while 2 institutes don’t have OPD, IPD facilities, as per health ministry data.
Vagisha Kaushik | July 30, 2024 | 06:21 PM IST
NEW DELHI: There are a total of 2,119 MBBS seats in 20 functional All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), according to the data shared by the Ministry of health and family welfare in the Rajya Sabha.
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Of 23 AIIMS across the country, three are yet to be functional including AIIMS Awantipora, AIIMS Darbhanga, and AIIMS Manethi (Haryana). The government has approved a project cost of Rs 1,828 crore, Rs 1,264 crore, and Rs 1,374 crore for the three institutes respectively. Of this, no fund has been released for AIIMS in Bihar’s Darbhanga.
Minister of state for health and family welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar shared the information while replying to the question raised about details of year of sanction, faculty, students, approved project cost, fund released and IPD/ OPD in each AIIMS, by the Member of Parliament (MP) Binoy Viswam from Kerala.
The oldest institute and top medical college, AIIMS Delhi has the maximum number of MBBS seats – 132 – while AIIMS Madurai which was sanctioned in 2018 has only 50 seats.
Nearly 74 percent of faculty positions are lying vacant in AIIMS Madurai while 50% are yet to be filled in six institutes. Moreover, AIIMS in Jammu and Madurai are still not functioning with an Outpatient Department (OPD) or Inpatient department (IPD).
AIIMS in India
The details of year of sanction, sanctioned faculty strength and MBBS seats, and available faculty and MBBS seats in AIIMS across the country are as follows:
|
Name of institute |
Year of sanction |
Sanctioned strength of faculty |
Faculty in position |
MBBS sanctioned seats |
MBBS students |
|
AIIMS New Delhi |
1956 |
1207 |
842 |
132 |
742 |
|
AIIMS Bhopal |
2012 |
305 |
217 |
125 |
697 |
|
AIIMS Bhubaneswar |
2012 |
315 |
244 |
125 |
599 |
|
AIIMS Jodhpur |
2012 |
305 |
227 |
125 |
700 |
|
AIIMS Patna |
2012 |
305 |
241 |
125 |
720 |
|
AIIMS Raipur |
2012 |
305 |
188 |
125 |
598 |
|
AIIMS Rishikesh |
2012 |
305 |
213 |
125 |
598 |
|
AIIMS Raebareli |
2009 |
201 |
102 |
100 |
448 |
|
AIIMS Mangalagiri |
2015 |
183 |
134 |
125 |
599 |
|
AIIMS Nagpur |
2015 |
298 |
152 |
125 |
649 |
|
AIIMS Kalyani |
2015 |
259 |
117 |
125 |
549 |
|
AIIMS Gorakhpur |
2016 |
183 |
104 |
125 |
550 |
|
AIIMS Bathinda |
2016 |
209 |
151 |
100 |
448 |
|
AIIMS Deoghar |
2018 |
183 |
110 |
125 |
460 |
|
AIIMS Bibinagar |
2018 |
183 |
109 |
100 |
411 |
|
AIIMS Bilaspur |
2018 |
194 |
96 |
100 |
299 |
|
AIIMS Jammu |
2019 |
183 |
83 |
62 |
233 |
|
AIIMS Madurai |
2018 |
183 |
47 |
50 |
147 |
|
AIIMS Rajkot |
2019 |
183 |
70 |
50 |
200 |
|
AIIMS Guwahati |
2017 |
183 |
91 |
100 |
294 |
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