Telangana Medical colleges await nearly Rs 100 crore funds
HYDERABAD: Financial constraints hinder Telangana’s critical infrastructure upgrades for medical education. Lok Sabha data on Thursday shows that the state’s government medical colleges have not received almost Rs 100 crore in central funds. This sum forms part of a sanctioned package intended to create over 500 new postgraduate seats.
Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda provided a written reply to a starred question from Godam Nagesh. He submitted a statement listing financial releases for the last two fiscal years.
The reply outlined that over the last two fiscal years, the Centre has supported Telangana’s medical education infrastructure through a special scheme. Under this scheme, approval was granted for 511 new postgraduate seats in government medical colleges. The total project cost is Rs 327.55 crore, with a central share of Rs 201.64 crore. So far, Rs 106.49 crore from the Centre has been released, in two separate phases over the last two fiscal years.
In the first phase, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad (Rs 5.66 crores), Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal (Rs 7.47 crores), and Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad (Rs 29.61 crores) collectively received Rs 42.75 crores. This amount, representing 60 per cent of the central government share for this phase, was released during the earlier part of the two-year period. The entire central share for this phase has now been disbursed.
Gandhi and Osmania among hit
In the second phase, the government set allocations for Government Medical College (GMC) Suryapet, GMC Siddipet, GMC Nalgonda, GMC Nizamabad, Osmania Medical College Hyderabad, GMC Mahabubnagar, Kakatiya Medical College (KMC) Warangal, RIMS Adilabad, and Gandhi Medical College Secunderabad. Of the planned Rs 158.89 crore for this phase, authorities have released Rs 63.74 crore to date. The remaining Rs 95.15 crore awaits release, as the latest tranche is still pending.
The Ministry added that the Scheme releases funds based on the pace of expenditure, the release of the corresponding State share, the receipt of a Utilization Certificate, and the demand from the State or UT government.
