A hundred thousand more specialist doctors by 2030: India sets its medical colleges a clear target

India's Health Minister J. P. Nadda has set the country's medical education system a number to chase: 1 lakh (100,000) specialist doctors trained by 2030, alongside a major expansion of MBBS seats and new colleges. The goal was underlined in Shillong, where the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences held its 15th convocation — 81 new MBBS graduates and 38 MD/MS postgraduates — and a new B.Sc Nursing college was inaugurated. For the Northeast, long underserved by specialists, the institute is meant to be the hub that trains doctors who stay.

SDG 4 · Quality education — Mechanism: policy reform