Tamil Nadu: PM Modi To Inaugurate 11 New Government Medical Colleges Tomorrow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 11 new Government Medical Colleges (GMC) across Tamil Nadu and the new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai on 12 January via video-conferencing, an official release said on Monday (10 January).

The new medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of about Rs 4,000 crore, out of which around Rs 2,145 crore has been provided by the Union government and rest by the Tamil Nadu government.

The districts in which the new Medical Colleges are being established are Virudhunagar, Namakkal, The Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri, a PMO release said.

The new medical colleges, with cumulative capacity of 1,450 seats, are being established under the Centrally Sponsored scheme of ’Establishing of New Medical Colleges attached with existing district/referral hospital’.

Under the scheme, medical colleges are established in districts, which do not have either a government or private medical college.

Further, PM Modi will also inaugurate a new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Chennai.

CICT, which was operating from a rented building so far, will now operate from a new three-storey campus. The new campus is equipped with a spacious library, an e-library, seminar halls and a multimedia hall, the release said.

CICT, an autonomous organization under the Union Ministry of Education, is contributing to the promotion of classical Tamil by doing research activities so as to establish the ancientness and uniqueness of Tamil language, it added.

The institute library has a rich collection of over 45,000 ancient Tamil Books.

To promote classical Tamil and support its students, the Institute indulges in academic activities like holding seminars and training programmes, granting fellowship etc.

It also aims to translate and publish ‘Thirukkural’ in various Indian as well as 100 foreign languages.

The new campus will provide an efficient working environment for the institute in its pursuit of promoting classical Tamil across the world, the release said.