On Monday, Union Health Minister, Gulam Nabi Azad said that the Centre plans to initiate a proposal to reinforce and promote medical colleges run by the State Government.

He said that in the academic year of 2011-12, scheme is to create about 4,000 supplementary post graduate seats.

Gulam Nabi Azad addressed at the convocation of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) that seats in private colleges, in addition to this, would lead to about 10,000 additional Post Graduate seats in the coming two years.

It's said that the scheme would be given a financial allowance of Rs. 1,350 crore. Hence, the colleges would be provided monetary support in order to augment the Post Graduate seats and also institute fresh PG courses.

Azad expects more than 4,000 PG seats to be available in the academic year (2011-12). Pointing out the different steps used to overpass the space between the doctor-population ratios, he said that the Government had streamlined the teacher-student ratio from 1:1 to 1:2 in PG medical education.

He believes that this step singly had shown way to conception of an added 2,800 PG seats in several government medical colleges in the 2010-11 academic year.