Union cabinet to open 75 new medical colleges in the country

The union cabinet presided by the prime minister Narendra Modi today took several significant decisions which include unanimous recommendations pertaining to a revolutionary change and improvement in the health sector of the country, promotion of Foreign Direct Investment to boost the nation’s s economy and to ensure the overall improvement of farmers.

The union cabinet started its deliberations with the paying of tributes to the former union minister, late Arun Jaitley. After the cabinet meeting, union minister Prakash Javadekar revealed that a very important decision under the prime minister’s leadership has been taken. It was regarding the opening of seventy-five new medical colleges in the country, incurring a budget of Rs. 24 thousand three hundred crores.

The proposed seventy-five new medical colleges would open opportunities for prospective MBBS aspirants for 15700 seats and will also ensure medical facilities for treatment to millions of people in various states of the country especially the people of the grass-root sections of the society who largely bank on free and concessional treatments in government hospitals.

In addition to the opening of 75 medical colleges, the BJP led NDA government also announced a Rs 6268 core subsidy for export of six million tonnes of sugar during the marketing year of 2019-20 starting October in order to liquidate surplus domestic stock and help mills in clearing the massive sugarcane arrears to farmers.

Union Minister Javadekar added: The government has taken an important decision in the interest of sugarcane farmers. The cabinet has approved export subsidy for 6 million tonnes for 2019-20.