Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates 11 new medical colleges in Tamil Nadu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 11 new government medical colleges and a new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Tamil Nadu on January 12, 2022 via video conferencing.
The 11 new medical colleges have been established at an estimated cost of about Rs 4,080 crore.
This includes around Rs 2,145 crore contribution by the Union government and rest by the Tamil Nadu government.
The new Medical Colleges are built at Virudhunagar, Namakkal, The Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri.
The new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) with state-of-the-art infrastructure was inaugurated at Perumbakkam near Chennai. It has been constructed at a cost of Rs. 24 crore.