Shillong, March 05: Special concessions have been granted to encourage setting up of medical colleges by private parties in the North Eastern states, union minister Gulam Nabi Azad said today.
“We have reduced the minimum area requirement for a medical college from 25 acre to 20 acre. The requisite bed capacity has been brought down from 300 to 200, Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, said.
Besides, requisite ‘bed occupancy’ has been reduced from 80 per cent to 60 per cent and number of required laboratories from 14 to six.
These concessions, he said, would encourage private parties from setting up more medical colleges in the region.
The health minister said the government would be setting up a dozen nursing colleges in the region in the next two years.
–Agencies