Shillong, April 10: Health Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh on Wednesday informed that the much-awaited Shillong Medical College is expecting to commence its academic session for 2025-26 very soon this year and the academic session of Tura medical college by next year.

Speaking to reporters, Lyngdoh said that a review meeting was recently chaired by the Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on the progress of the preparations for the commencement of the medical colleges both at Shillong and Tura.

“We were informed that everything is on schedule and that all of the infrastructure that needed to be put in position were all in an advanced stage and funding and other matters for the conduct and management of the medical college was also clearly explained to us in the meeting chaired by the chief minister,” she said.

The minister informed that the National Medical Council (NMC) is expected to conduct the inspection of the Shillong Medical College sometime in early of May.

“We are hopeful that the entire procedure for the passing and approval of a government medical college run by the state government will be very highly expected. We hope that we will be able to commence one this session of 2025-26,” she added.

Stating that the progress of the Tura Medical College is very positive, Lyngdoh however said, “At this point of time, we are ensuring that funding for the improvement of infrastructure of the Tura civil hospital and Tura MCH hospital is also fast tracked.”

“We are happy to inform that all of these funding have been reviewed by the Chief Minister and have all been duly accorded. So that also is good news for all of us in the state because there is a high probability, we are targeting ourselves and pushing ourselves to ensure that the Tura Medical College also becomes operationalised by the next academic session.”

Stating that the government is yet to decide on the mode of operation for the Tura medical college, Lyngdoh said, “The biggest concern of the government in the review of the Chief Minister is that the management of the civil hospital and MCH Tura should not be given to any institute if and when decided to run the Tura medical college. That is again good because ownership, management of the Tura civil hospital and MCH hospital remains with the government of Meghalaya.”

“We are in the process of preparing the Expression of Interests (EOIs) and it will take some time but we hope to be able to cross that bridge to enable even the Tura Medical college to start quickly as early as the next academic session,” she added further.

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