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Medical courses at AIIMS Kashmir from next academic year

Srinagar
December 11, 2020

The Government of India has directed the J&K administration to set-up a temporary campus adjacent to the proposed site of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in South Kashmir�s Awantipora for starting medical courses from next academic year.

A Senior Health department official informed that GOI has already given nod to commencement of medical courses from AIIMS Samba in Jammu division from current academic year. �Administration has set up temporary accommodation in Samba and on the same pattern the administration has been directed to set up a temporary accommodation in the vicinity of the proposed site at Awantipora.�

All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Jammu�s Samba district has secured the Union Health Ministry�s approval to start its first academic session from this year. The AIIMS in Vijaypur tehsil of Samba district has been sanctioned a total intake capacity of 50 MBBS seats for the academic session 2020-2021.

Further, the GOI has stressed on the timely completion of construction of these prestigious healthcare projects within stipulated time frame.

The Central Government has set a January 2025 deadline to complete the prestigious projects.
However AIIMS Kashmir has seen little progress in the last five years since it was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Institute to be established at Awantipora is part of the Prime Minister�s Development Package (PMDP) which was announced on 7 November 2015. In early 2019, the Central Government approved the project with a cost of Rs 1828 crore.