The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is in the process of setting up 15 medical colleges, including dental and para-medical, in several States, the Labour Ministry said on Monday.
The ESIC, which has been allocated Rs 10,000 crore for medical education projects, has already identified the locations for these colleges, Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge informed the Lok Sabha.
The States where these colleges will be set up are Andhra Pradesh (Sanathnagar), Bihar (Bihta), Gujarat (Naroda), Haryana (Faridabad), Himachal Pradesh (Mandi), Karnataka (Gulbarga, Rajajinagar), Kerala (Paripally), Maharashtra (Mulund), Madhya Pradesh (Indore), New Delhi (Basaidarapur), Odisha, Rajasthan (Alwar), Tamil Nadu (K.K Nagar, Coimbatore), Uttarakhand (Haridwar) and West Bengal (Joka, Baltikuri).