ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (AIIMS)

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• The Prime Minister congratulated the people of UP for the inauguration of AIIMS and fertilizer plant and for the new building of Regional Medical Research Center of ICMR in Gorakhpur.
  
  
• The Prime Minister said after independence till the beginning of this century, there was only one All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the country.
  
  
• Former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had approved 6 more AIIMS. The Prime Minister said work is going on across the country to build 16 new AIIMS in the last 7 years.
  
  
• He announced the goal of his Government is that every district in the country must have at least one medical college.