Eight medical colleges will become operational in Telangana from the academic year 2022-23, State Health and Finance Minister T. Harish Rao said on Sunday.
One of these medical colleges has been opened in Kothagudem, a tribal area of Bhadradri Kothagudem district.
The minister said that despite the Centre’s discrimination towards Telangana, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has taken a historic initiative to establish one medical college each in all 33 districts.
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Harish Rao pointed out that in the last seven decades only five medical colleges were established in Telangana, but after the formation of Telangana, 12 new medical colleges were sanctioned in the last eight years. Sixteen new medical colleges are being established, making it one medical college per district.
The minister claimed that Telangana made several representations to the Center for medical colleges but not a single medical college was sanctioned.
He said that Telangana was not sanctioned even a single medical college, Uttar Pradesh got 27 new medical colleges and Madhya Pradesh got 19 colleges. He informed that a total of 157 medical colleges have been sanctioned in all the states.
Telangana Industries and Information Technology Minister KT Rama Rao and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya were recently engaged in a war of words over the issue of medical colleges.
After Rama Rao said that the BJP-led government did not sanction a single medical college to Telangana, Mandaviya claimed that the state government had not submitted any proposal for medical colleges.
However, KTR, as the minister is popularly known, disputed the Union minister’s claim. He said that the health minister of the state had continuously requested for medical colleges.
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