Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey has informed that The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely ‘Establishment of new Medical Colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals’ with fund sharing between the Central Government and States in the ratio of 90:10 for NE/special category States and 60:40 for other states. Under the scheme, 82 districts hospitals in 21 States/UT under Phase-I & II have been identified to establish new Medical Colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals. Out of these, 39 medical colleges have become functional. The time frame for implementation for Phase-I and Phase-II of the Scheme is 2019-20 and 2021-22 respectively. List of districts/medical colleges identified/approved under Phase-I and Phase-II of the Scheme is given at Annexure-I and II respectively.
Annexure-I
List of districts approved under Phase-I of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals
| S. No. | State/UT | Districts | |
| 1 | A & N Islands | 1 | Port Blair |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | Naharlagun |
| 3 | Assam | 3 | Dhubri |
| 4 | Nagaon | ||
| 5 | North Lakhimpur | ||
| 6 | Diphu | ||
| 4 | Bihar | 7 | Purnia |
| 8 | Saran (Chhapara) | ||
| 9 | Samastipur | ||
| 5 | Chhattisgarh | 10 | Rajnandgaon |
| 11 | Sarguja | ||
| 6 | Himachal Pradesh | 12 | Chamba |
| 13 | Hamirpur | ||
| 14 | Nahan (Sirmour) | ||
| 7 | Haryana | 15 | Bhiwani |
| 8 | Jharkhand | 16 | Dumka |
| 17 | Hazaribagh | ||
| 18 | Palamu (Daltonganj) | ||
| 9 | Jammu & Kashmir | 19 | Anantnag |
| 20 | Baramulla | ||
| 21 | Rajouri | ||
| 22 | Doda | ||
| 23 | Kathua | ||
| 10 | Madhya Pradesh | 24 | Datia |
| 25 | Khandwa | ||
| 26 | Ratlam | ||
| 27 | Shahdol | ||
| 28 | Vidisha | ||
| 29 | Chindwara | ||
| 30 | Shivpuri | ||
| 11 | Maharashtra | 31 | Gondia |
| 12 | Meghalaya | 32 | West Garo Hills (Tura) |
| 13 | Mizoram | 33 | Falkawn |
| 14 | Nagaland | 34 | Naga Hospital |
| 15 | Odisha | 35 | Balasore |
| 36 | Baripada (Mayurbhanj) | ||
| 37 | Bolangir | ||
| 38 | Koraput | ||
| 39 | Puri | ||
| 16 | Punjab | 40 | SAS Nagar |
| 17 | Rajasthan | 41 | Barmer |
| 42 | Bharatpur | ||
| 43 | Bhilwara | ||
| 44 | Churu | ||
| 45 | Dungarpur | ||
| 46 | Pali | ||
| 47 | Sikar | ||
| 18 | Uttar Pradesh | 48 | Basti |
| 49 | Faizabad | ||
| 50 | Firozabad | ||
| 51 | Shahjahanpur | ||
| 52 | Bahraich | ||
| 19 | Uttarakhand | 53 | Almora |
| 20 | West Bengal | 54 | Birbhum (Rampur Hat) |
| 55 | Cooch behar | ||
| 56 | Diamond harbour | ||
| 57 | Purulia | ||
| 58 | Raiganj, North Dinajpur |
Annexure-II
List of 24 medical colleges identified under Phase-II of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Establishment of new medical colleges attached with existing district/referral hospitals
| S.No. | State | Location Selected by State Government | |
| 1 | Bihar | 1 | Sitamarhi |
| 2 | Jhanjharpur | ||
| 3 | Siwan | ||
| 4 | Buxar | ||
| 5 | Jamui | ||
| 2 | Jharkhand | 6 | Koderma |
| 7 | Chaibasa (Singhbhum) | ||
| 3 | Madhya Pradesh | 8 | Satna |
| 4 | Odisha | 9 | Jajpur |
| 5 | Rajasthan | 10 | Dholpur |
| 6 | Uttar Pradesh | 11 | Etah |
| 12 | Hardoi | ||
| 13 | Pratapgarh | ||
| 14 | Fatehpur | ||
| 15 | Siddharthnagar (Domariyaganj) | ||
| 16 | Deoria | ||
| 17 | Ghazipur | ||
| 18 | Mirzapur | ||
| 7 | West Bengal | 19 | Barasat |
| 20 | Uluberia | ||
| 21 | Arambagh | ||
| 22 | Jhargram | ||
| 23 | Tamluk | ||
| 8 | Sikkim | 24 | Gangtok |
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