{"id":6834,"date":"2025-09-28T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:04:30","slug":"more-medical-seats-higher-govt-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/?p=6834","title":{"rendered":"More medical seats, higher govt investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"justify-text wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>While the central government invests 68.50 per cent of \u20b91.5 crore per additional 10,023 medical seat, the State governments invest the rest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text wp-block-paragraph\">The government approved 10,023 new medical seats&nbsp;with an investment of \u20b915,034 crore to achieve the goal of 75,000 additional medical seats and&nbsp;improve&nbsp;universal health coverage.&nbsp;India had 387 medical colleges in 2013-14, which increased to 808 in 2025-26.&nbsp;This growth&nbsp;led to&nbsp;a 141 per cent&nbsp;rise&nbsp;in undergraduate and postgraduate seats.&nbsp;The new regulation permits experienced government specialists to become professors without the mandatory residency requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text wp-block-paragraph\">The Central government will fund 68.5 per cent of the investment of \u20b915,034 crore, amounting to \u20b910,303.20 crore. The states will fund the remaining \u20b94,731.30 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text wp-block-paragraph\">Underserved communities will benefit from the addition of a skilled medical workforce, particularly of specialists. Using the existing infrastructure is cost-effective and promotes balanced regional distribution of the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text wp-block-paragraph\">With this investment, aspiring medical students will get more opportunities to pursue a medical education in India. The country will have more doctors and specialists. India can become a prime destination for providing affordable healthcare and boosting foreign exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the central government invests 68.50 per cent of \u20b91.5 crore per additional 10,023 medical seat, the State governments invest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dazzling-chebyshev.103-73-189-254.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}