| In a bid to prevent exodus of students to other states, the Bihar government has decided to increase seats in all six medical colleges of the state and also set up new ones.
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| "The state government has decided in principle to increase seats in six medical colleges of the state and also build new colleges," chief minister Nitish Kumar told reporters.
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| He said the cabinet has approved the proposal to build a medical college in Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) Hospital.
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| State health minister Chandra Mohan Rai told us that the decision to increase seats was taken to stop exodus of students from Bihar to medical colleges in other states after payment of huge capitation fees.
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| It had nothing to do with the ongoing anti-quota agitation as the reservation facility for OBC students already existed in Bihar, he said.
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| Thousands of students from Bihar were compelled to travel to Karnataka, Maharashtra and other parts of the country to get a seat in medical colleges there on payment of capitation fee. "We decided to provide similar facilities in the state itself to check their migration," Rai added.
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| Patna Medical College and Hospital (Patna), Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (Patna), Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (Muzaffarpur), Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (Darbhanga), Anugrah Narain Medical College and Hospital (Gaya) and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (Bhagalpur) are the six state-run medical institutions of Bihar. |
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