All India Institute of Medical Sciences

The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are a group of autonomous public medical colleges of higher education. These institutes have been declared by Act of Parliament as institutions of national importance. AIIMS New Delhi, the fore-runner parent excellence institution, was established in 1956.

The AIIMS institutes are located in:

From the 2013–14 academic session, the overall availability of MBBS seats in India rose to 42,169. The health ministry is striving to achieve the target doctor-patient ratio of 1:1000 by 2021, which at present is 1:2000. The government plans to increase overall availability of MBBS seats to 80,000 and of PG seats to 45,000 from the current 22,194 by 2021. The aim is to reduce the shortage of doctors, which is currently pegged at around 800,000 (800,000). India has 27 regional cancer centres.400 RT machines are available for cancer treatment.

AIIMS New Delhi is governed by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act, 1956.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012,was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 27 August 2012. This bill will also replace a recent Ordinance which allowed the six AIIMS-like institutes to become operational from September 2012.Lok Sabha passed the AIIMS (Amendment) Bill, 2012 on 30 August 2012. The proposed measure will help the Centre change the status of the six new AIIMS registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act to be autonomous body corporate on the lines of the existing AIIMS in Delhi.AIIMS(Amendment) Bill,2012 was introduced in Rajya Sabha on 3 September 2012.Rajya Sabha passed the AIIMS (Amendment) Bill, 2012 on 4 September 2012.

On March 8, 2003, while addressing the 32nd Convocation, deviating from the written speech APJ Abdul Kalam, the former President of India asked to develop AIIMS like Institutions in other part of country linked with AIIMS Delhi. Sushma Swaraj the then Health Minister presiding the convocation as President of AIIMS said that 6 AIIMS will be started shortly.

In 2009, the government had further decided to set up AIIMS-like institutes at Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh and at Raiganj in West Bengal, now the institute to come up at Kalyani which is 50 Kilometers away from Kolkata instead of Raiganj which is 400 Kilometers away from Kolkata.

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