Union Budget 2021: Small increase in funds for central medical colleges

Budget 2021: Allocations to centrally-funded medical colleges have risen slightly over this year’s budget estimates but not revised ones.

Budget 2021: Institutions like AIIMS saw a small increase in allocation (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Pritha Roy Choudhury | February 1, 2021 | 06:11 PM IST

New Delhi : The finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2021 in Parliament today and while the health sector, reeling under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increase in funding, health education has not. The budget for centrally-run medical colleges has increased very marginally over the current financial year’s budget estimates. An existing scheme for the establishment of new medical colleges and increasing seats in existing ones has also seen a small increase in budget from Rs 4,686 crore in Budget 2020 to Rs 4,800 crore in Budget 2021.

Union Budget 2021: Medical Education

Institute

2020 – 2021 (In Rs Cr)

2021-2022 (In Rs Cr)

All India Institute of Medical Sciences


3,489.96


3800

Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

1426.53

1613.82

Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry

1000

1000

National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences, Bengaluru

434.43

500.44

North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong

310.31

350

Regional Institue of Medical Sciences, Imphal

354.64

438.77

Regional Institute of Paramedical and Nursing Sciences, Aizaw

35.46

88.87

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur

53.20

57


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