If all goes as per plans, Konkan region will soon get its first government medical college in Alibaug. The college is expected to be launched with 100 seats in the next academic year 2021-22 for first-year MBBS students and is slated to have a 500-bed hospital too. A 53-acre plot of land has been reserved for the college in Usar Village, Alibaug-Roha road with the cost pegged at R639 crore. The project is expected to be completed in three years.

In a meeting chaired by Guardian Minister Aditi Tatkare on Wednesday, it was decided that a panel from the National Medical Commission (NMC) will inspect the site. The commission regulates medical education and medical professionals. An Indian regulatory body of 33 members, which regulates medical education and medical professionals, NMC has come into force from September 25, 2020, thereby repealing the nearly 64-year-old Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.