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.

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Over 2,000 MBBS seats in AIIMS. (Image: AIIMS Madurai/official X account)

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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