Mumbai | In a major boost to medical education and healthcare infrastructure in south Mumbai, the Maharashtra government has approved ₹210 crore for the establishment of a new government medical college on the Gokuldas Tejpal (GT) Hospital campus.
The proposed institution will include a dedicated college building, hostels for both male and female students, and staff quarters, all to be developed on a 7,091-square-metre plot located between GT Hospital and Cama & Albless Hospital at Fort. The land currently houses quarters for Class 4 government employees and falls under the jurisdiction of the state public works department, which will clear the area for new construction.
As per the official plan, the college building will come up within the GT Hospital campus itself. Recruitment for teaching staff is already in progress, with the Maharashtra Public Service Commission overseeing the appointment of professors. The college will initially offer 50 MBBS seats, with plans to expand the intake to 100 in the near future, as announced by Medical Education Minister Hasan Mushrif in the state legislative assembly.
The GT Hospital, with its 1,026 beds, comfortably exceeds the National Medical Commission (NMC) requirement of 650 beds and 15,000 sq. metres of hospital space for a postgraduate medical institution. A senior medical official told The Times of India that the new college will meet all NMC standards, including lecture halls large enough to accommodate up to 200 students for future expansion.
Earlier, the state government had consolidated bed capacities at GT Hospital and the nearby Cama and Albless Hospital to meet the infrastructure requirements for the new medical college.
Currently, Mumbai has four BMC-operated medical colleges—KEM Hospital (Parel), Nair Hospital (Mumbai Central), Sion Hospital, and Cooper Hospital—collectively offering 850 MBBS seats. The state-run JJ Hospital in Byculla, the only government medical college in south Mumbai, provides an additional 250 MBBS seats.
This new college at GT Hospital will ease the burden on existing institutions and expand access to medical education in the region. Meanwhile, a previous plan to establish a medical college at St George’s Hospital was scrapped due to heritage-related constraints.
Additionally, the BMC is also setting up a new medical facility under a public-private partnership (PPP) model at Shatabdi College.
