Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 11 new government medical colleges and a new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Tamil Nadu on January 12, 2022 via video conferencing.
The 11 medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of ₹4,000 crore with efforts from both the Centre and Tamil Nadu government. The central government has provided ₹2,145 crore for the project and the rest is funded by the Tamil Nadu government.
The new Medical Colleges are built at Virudhunagar, Namakkal, The Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri. The new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) with state-of-the-art infrastructure was inaugurated at Perumbakkam near Chennai. It has been constructed at a cost of Rs. 24 crore.