Nagaon Medical College and Hospital is an Indian medical college with an attached hospital located in

Nagaon Nagaon is a city and a municipal board in Nagaon district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Assam. It is situated east of Guwahati. With a population of 1,16,355 as per 2011 census it is an AMRUT City and 4th biggest city ...

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

, that started functioning in 2023.

Background

The college operates under the State Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Assam. It is permitted by

National Medical Commission The National Medical Commission (NMC) is a statutory body in India that regulates medical education, medical professionals, institutes, and research. Established on 25 September 2020, it replaced the Medical Council of India. The Commission gra ...

and affiliated with Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences,

Guwahati Guwahati () the largest city of the Indian state of Assam, and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the seat of the Government of Assam. Th ...

. Currently the college has an intact capacity of 100 undergraduate students, from the academic year 2023–24. On 14 April 2023, Prime Minister

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who has served as the Prime Minister of India, prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Par ...

inaugurated the college and Hospital, along with All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati and two other medical colleges.

Location

Nagaon Medical College is situated in Laukhowa Road, Diphalu, Mohkhuli, Nagaon, Assam.

is well connected to the rest of the Assam through Roads and is situated 120 km from

References

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