NEW DELHI: The Government gave its go ahead for setting up 132 nursing and midwifery schools across the country at a cost of Rs 660 crore.
The proposal for setting up the schools during the XIth plan was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
The schools will be set up in high-focus states like Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, North Eastern States, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and other districts in the country, preferably which do not have auxiliary nursing and midwifery schools.
The institutions will be opened in these states at a total cost of Rs 660 crore, with a cost sharing pattern of 85:15 between the Centre and the states, Union information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni told reporters here today.
The expenditure on part of the Central Government would be Rs 561 crore and the states will contribute Rs 99 crore.
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