ESIC to Reserve 300 MBBS Seats in 10 New Medical Colleges

Around 300 of the 600 MBBS seats in the 10 newly established Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) medical colleges are expected to be reserved for the children of 3.72 crore insured individuals, starting from the academic session in August this year.

These medical colleges will be located in Andheri (Maharashtra), Basaidarapur (Delhi), Guwahati-Beltola (Assam), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Ludhiana (Punjab), Naroda-Bapunagar (Gujarat), Noida and Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), and Ranchi (Jharkhand).

Among them, ESIC Model Hospital & PGIMSR Basaidarapur in Delhi and ESIC Model College Indore will each offer 100 MBBS seats, while the remaining eight colleges will have 50 seats each.

The decision to establish these colleges was approved during the 194th ESIC meeting in October last year, aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to create 75,000 new medical seats over the next five years.

The Ministry of Labour & Employment has allocated nearly 50% of the total seats for children of employees covered under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948—those working in factories with monthly wages up to ₹21,000.

Currently, ESIC directly operates 51 hospitals, while an additional 109 hospitals are managed by state governments under the ESI scheme, as per data shared with Parliament in 2023.

News by Rahul Yelligetti.