Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated 11 new government medical colleges in Tamil Nadu.
The new colleges are in Ariyalur, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Krishnagiri, Nagapattinam, Namakkal, Ramanathapuram, the Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Tiruvallur and Virudhunagar,
It would have an intake of 1,450 M.B.B.S. students annually.
As on March 31, 2021, the intake capacity of students in M.B.B.S. courses in government medical institutions of Tamilnadu was 3,550.
Prime Minister Modi also virtually inaugurated the new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) at Perumbakkam near Chennai.