Tamil Nadu to get 11 medical colleges and new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil
Radiance News Service
New medical colleges to
increase MBBS seats by 1450 - in line with the PM's constant endeavour to
promote affordable medical education and improve health infrastructure all
across the country
The new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil - fully funded by Union
Government - to play important role in preserving and promoting classical Tamil
language
In line with PM’s vision to protect and preserve Indian heritage and promote
classical languages
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 11 New Government Medical Colleges across Tamil Nadu and the new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai, on January 12, 2022 at 4 PM via video conferencing.
The new medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of about Rs 4000 crore, out of which around Rs 2145 crore has been provided by the Union government and the 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. The establishment of these medical colleges is in line with the Prime Minister's constant endeavour to promote affordable medical education and improve health infrastructure in all parts of the country.
The new medical colleges, with a cumulative capacity of 1450 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.
The establishment of a new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Chennai is in line with the Prime Minister’s vision to protect and preserve Indian heritage and promote classical languages. The new campus is fully funded by the Union Government and is built at a cost of Rs 24 Crore. CICT, which was operating from a rented building so far, will now operate from a new 3 storey campus. The new campus is equipped with a spacious library, an e-library, seminar halls and a multimedia hall.
An autonomous organization under the Union Ministry of Education,
CICT is contributing to the promotion of classical Tamil by doing research
activities so as to establish the ancientness and uniqueness of the Tamil language.
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.