Around 300 out of 600 MBBS seats in the 10 new Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) medical colleges are expected to be made available for children of 3.72 crore insured persons in the academic session beginning in August this year.
The 10 ESIC medical colleges are at Andheri (Maharashtra), Basaidarapur (Delhi), Guwahati-Beltola (Assam), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Ludhiana (Punjab), Naroda-Bapunagar (Gujarat), Noida and Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), and Ranchi (Jharkhand).
The Ministry of Labour & Employment has decided to reserve almost 50 per cent of the total seats for ESIC insured persons, or employees covered under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, and who work in factories with wages up to Rs 21,000 per month, Ministry sources said.
The intake of MBBS students into these ESIC medical colleges and hospitals will happen through the NEET exam scheduled for May 4, 2025.
Of the ten, only ESIC Model Hospital & PGIMSR Basaidarapur, Delhi and ESIC Model College Indore would have 100 MBBS seats each, while the remaining eight will have 50 seats each, sources said.
Approval for opening 10 new medical colleges was accorded at the 194th meeting of the ESIC held on October 8 last year, to support the announcement made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2024 Independence Day speech for creating 75,000 new medical seats in the next five years.
These medical colleges and hospitals, which will cater to ESIC insured persons and their families and Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) beneficiaries, have come up in less than one year of the announcement, adding to the existing tally of 160 ESIC medical colleges in the country.
Fifty-one hospitals are run by the ESIC directly, and another 109 hospitals are under the control of the states through the ESI scheme, as per information shared with Parliament in 2023.
Additionally, there are 1,502 ESI dispensaries in the country, which include 36 dispensaries run by the ESIC directly and 1,466 run by the states under the ESI scheme (ESIS), the Ministry of Labour and Employment informed Rajya Sabha two years ago.
Other than that, there are 89 Dispensary-cum-Branch Offices (DCBOs) directly run by the ESIC.
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