Lucknow: Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate seven new medical colleges in the state from Siddharthnagar district on October 25.
The newly established medical colleges will come up in seven districts — Siddharthnagar, Deoria, Mirzapur, Etah, Hardoi, Ghazipur and Bahraich. All colleges will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister on October 25.
According to Adityanath, the admission process will be done in these medical colleges from this academic session through NEET examination. “Three to five life supporting ambulances are available in every district of the state,” he was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
The Siddharthnagar medical college will be named after Madhav Prasad Tripathi, who was an active Jana Sangh member and the first BJP state president. Tripathi was a resident of the district’s Bansi assembly constituency.
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