New Delhi: On Thursday i.e. March 4, 2010, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave its nod for the setting up of 137 General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) Schools, under the Scheme of Upgradation / Strengthening of Nursing Services. This initiative of CCEA would facilitate improvement in the quality of nursing services in the hospitals across India. Moreover, it is expected that it would increase the availability of trained nursing manpower and improve the quality of nursing education in the backward and special category states of the country.
The new colleges would be established in the states including Bihar, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, North Eastern States, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The colleges will be opened in these states at a total cost of Rs 1370 crore, with a cost sharing pattern of 85:15 between the Central Government and States. The expenditure on the part of Central Government would be Rs 1164.50 crore and the states are to contribute Rs 205.50 crore.
Further, the CCEA also approved, in order to meet the shortage of nurses, setting up of 132 Auxiliary Nursing and Midwifery (ANM) Schools under the same scheme. The schools will be opened in these states at a total cost of Rs 660 crore with a cost-sharing pattern of 85:15 between the Central Government and the States. The expenditure on the part of Central Government would be Rs 561 crore and the States will contribute Rs 99 crore.
