Taking forward the One District, One Medical College scheme, the Yogi Adityanath government has issued tenders for opening medical colleges on public-private partnership (PPP) model in six districts where investors will be selected through a tender process to start medical colleges.

The districts where medical colleges will open in PPP model are Mahoba, Mainpuri, Baghpat, Hamirpur, Hathras and Kasganj.

Principal Secretary (Medical Education) Alok Kumar said that Uttar Pradesh was the first state which had issued tenders for opening medical colleges on PPP model. He said the details of the tender had also been uploaded on the GeN portal.

The Union Ministry of Economic Affairs has given permission to open medical colleges in six districts on PPP model under the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme. It will cost about Rs 1,525 crore and the Central government will provide a subsidy of about Rs 1,012 crore.

On an average, a college will get a subsidy of Rs 160 crore.

“Under this, the work has started after selecting the investors to open medical colleges in Maharajganj and Shamli. Treatment is also likely to start in Maharajganj by next year,” Kumar said.

He said that this was a big step in the direction of providing better and accessible medical services to the common people as by accepting the proposal of the Central government, the money of the state government will be saved.

The state government will give the district hospital and land on lease for 33 years. After this the investor will return the medical college to the government and it will be the property of the state government.