Last Updated: 28 September 2026
TARGET:
-- Establish Tertiary Care Super Specialist Hospitals
-- Make Punjab a hub of Medical education & services
March 2026: 7 new medical colleges with ~600 more MBBS seats[1]
-- Govt: Hoshiarpur (construction from 20 March 2026, target March 2028, 300-bed hospital) & Kapurthala (tendering done)
-- PPP: Sangrur & SBS Nagar (tendering underway)
-- Minority/Private: Malerkotla, Lehragaga & near Ludhiana
EXISTING: Till Jul2022[2]:
Punjab has only 12 medical colleges
-- 4 government, 6 privates, 1 PPP mode and 1 Centre-run
-- Total only 1,750 MBBS seats (800 government & 950 private)
¶ 1. Kapurthala: Shri Guru Nanak Dev State Institute of Medical Sciences[3]
- Will be built on a 20-acre site
- With 100 MBBS seats
¶ 2. Hoshiarpur: Shaheed Udham Singh State Institute of Medical Sciences[4]
- 100 MBBS seats are being established
- College will also prove to be a boon for many districts of Himachal Pradesh
- Build with an amount of 460cr on 23 acer of land
- Have Earthquake resistant building
¶ 3. Sangrur: Sant Attar Singh State Institute of Medical Sciences[4:1]
- 100 MBBS seats will be established
¶ 4. Malerkotla: Nawab Sher Mohammad Khan Government Medical College[4:2]
- It is a minority medical College
- 100 seats for MBBS will be established
¶ 5. Nawanshahr: Shaheed Bhagat Singh Government Medical College at Barnala Kalan village[5]
- college will have 50 MBBS seats
- cost of Rs 300 crore
References:
https://medicaldialogues.in/news/education/medical-colleges/punjab-announces-7-medical-colleges-around-600-mbbs-seats-to-be-added-165932 ↩︎
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/92814785.cms ↩︎
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/education-today/news/story/punjab-to-soon-get-rs-42869-crore-medical-college-named-after-guru-nanak-dev-2302595-2022-11-28 ↩︎
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/four-new-medical-colleges-to-come-up-in-stategovernor-484961 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/punjab-cm-mann-lays-foundation-stone-of-shaheed-bhagat-singh-govt-medical-college/ ↩︎
