NCP writes to Health Minister for govt medical college approval in Alibaug

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has written to the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya urging the central government to approve and instruct National Medical Commission (NMC) to grant permission for a government medical college with 100 MBBS seats in Usar, Alibaug taluka in Maharashtra's Raigad district.

NCP MP Supriya Sule and MP Sunil Tatkare met Mandaviya and requested to issue an order granting permission for a 100 MBBS seat government medical college in this region.

This is going to be the first-ever medical college in Maharashtra's Konkan region. A 52-acre plot of land has been reserved for setting up this medical college in Usar Village, Alibaug-Roha road. The project is anticipated to be completed in three years. 

The college is slated to have a 500-bed hospital and it is expected to be launched with 100 seats by August-September in the academic year 2021-22 for first-year MBBS students.

For the construction of government medical colleges and hospital buildings in the state, the Maharashtra government has issued an administrative approval of Rs 406 crore 96 lakh and 68 thousand.

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