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Centre unwraps AIIMS gift with 100 MBBS seats to Telangana
Although the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi TRS have sort of wielded swords against each other in the just concluded assembly elections in Telangana, the BJPled NDA government at the Centre did not let that differences come in way of their administrative decisions as far as Telangana is concerned
​Hyderabad: Although the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) have sort of wielded swords against each other in the just concluded assembly elections in Telangana, the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre did not let that differences come in way of their administrative decisions as far as Telangana is concerned.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired Union Cabinet meet approved AIIMS for Telangana and gave green signal for 100 MBBS seats, that will be filled based on All India entrance test for different AIIMS centres located across the country including the prestigious New Delhi institute. Interestingly AIIMS Madurai (Tamil Nadu) will also start off with 100 MBBS seats.
This is a big news since seats strength in AIIMS, Bibinagar and AIIMS, Madurai is the same as that of in six other AIIMS located in Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur, Rishikesh and Bhopal, which have 100 MBBS seats each. The first AIIMS in the country established in 1956 in New Delhi has 107 seats. The two recent additions to the AIIMS list-AIIMS Mangalagiri and AIIMS Nagpur that were started in 2018 by the NDA government have a seats strength of 50 seats each.
While the number of AIIMS in the country was seven until NDA government assumed charge in 2014, Narendra Modi's team approved or proposed 15 more AIIMS across the country taking the total to 22 AIIMS. Out of the 15, MBBS classes already commenced in Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh) and Nagpur (Maharashtra).
The AIIMS exam notification released few weeks ago listed six new AIIMS where MBBS classes are proposed from 2019-20 academic year and the list includes Rai Bareli (Uttar Pradesh), Gorakhpur ( Uttar Pradesh), Kalyani (West Bengal), Bhatinda (Punjab), Deoghar (Jharkhand) and Bibinagar (Telangana).
However, the Union Cabinet initially approved and also gave funds clearance for establishment of AIIMS in Telangana and Tamil Nadu (in Madurai) with 100 seats each. PVRK Murthy, educationist and chairman of Sri Gayatri Institutions felt that Telangana was getting not one but two AIIMS institutions if we take seats strength (100 MBBS seats) into consideration. He said that the two recent AIIMS institutions established in Nagpur and Mangalagiri were approved with 50 MBBS seats only.
“This is a big news for medical aspirants from Telangana. The general process seen in establishment of new AIIMS is-initially they start off with 50 seats and increase the strength to 100 seats after a few years. But AIIMS Bibinagar is lucky in the sense it got 100 MBBS seats in a single go," he said, adding that readily available infrastructure (NIMS facility) that is being transformed to AIIMS, perhaps, worked to the advantage of Telangana.
Meanwhile, Telangana Medical and Health department was elated with allocation of 100 MBBS seats. “We firmly believed that AIIMS, Bibinagar could start off with 100 MBBS seats as it had ready building to conduct classes and OP services. However, we had our doubts as Centre only allocated 50 MBBS seats to new institutions, that however started from the scratch (only site was handed over with no buildings in place) unlike in Telangana where government is giving a constructed six-storey building to AIIMS authorities," an official said.
