The Prime Minister has <\/span>inaugurated 11 new medical colleges and a new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n In the last seven years, the number of medical colleges has gone up to 596, an increase of 54%<\/span><\/p>\n Medical Undergraduate and Postgraduate seats have gone up by about 80% since 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n The number of AIIMS has gone up to 22 from 7 in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n It is an autonomous Institute of higher research functioning under the Ministry of education, Government of India.<\/span><\/p>\n Purpose:<\/b> To carry out higher research on Classical Tamil at international levels not to be found elsewhere globally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The institute is <\/span>engaged in the task of <\/span>developing Tamil <\/b>through various programmes of its own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The institute is also responsible for the <\/span>Kural Peedam Award<\/b>. <\/b>It is a lifetime achievement presidential award given to eminent scholars of classical Tamil.<\/span><\/p>\n Located in:<\/b> Chennai<\/span><\/p>\n S<\/b>ource: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>PM inaugurates 11 new medical colleges and a new campus of CICT in Tamil Nadu<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on 13th<\/sup> January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? The Prime Minister has inaugurated 11 new medical colleges and a new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Tamil Nadu. Improvement of Medical Infrastructure in India In the last seven years, the number of medical colleges has gone up to 596, an increase of 54% Medical Undergraduate and… Continue reading PM inaugurates 11 new medical colleges and a new campus of CICT in Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-161496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699812033},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Improvement of Medical Infrastructure in India<\/b><\/h5>\n
About Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT)<\/b><\/h5>\n