All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani (AIIMS Kalyani) is a public medical school and hospital located in Kalyani, West Bengal, India, and one of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences. Announced in 2014 and approved in 2015, construction started in 2016 and the institute started operation in 2019, one of six AIIMSs to do so in that year.

History
AIIMS Kalyani was set up as part of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) initiative, announced by the Government of India in 2003 and officially launched in March 2006, for the purpose of "correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services", through setting up AIIMS Delhi-like institutions and upgrading government medical colleges. Establishing an AIIMS in West Bengal was proposed in 2012 as part of the 12th Five-Year Plan, with the original location proposed being Raiganj,  from the capital Kolkata, but by June 2014, the proposed location was changed to Kalyani, only  from the capital. The AIIMS was officially announced in July 2014, in the budget speech for 2014–15, where the Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley announced a budget of  for setting up the four "Phase-IV" AIIMSs, in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and the Purvanchal region in Uttar Pradesh. In March 2015, the union cabinet gave an official approval for the location, on a 150-acre lot in the village Basantapur, near Kalyani. A budget of  was approved in October 2015 and the 179.82-acre lot of land was handed over from the West Bengal government to the central government in December of that year.

The construction of the institute started in 2016, with a target completion date of March 2020. The institute became operational with the first batch of 50 MBBS students, which started in September 2019, one of the six AIIMSs to become operational in 2019. The mentoring institution is AIIMS Bhubaneswar, the first vice-chancellor appointed was Dipika Deka and Chitra Sarkar acts as president. Deka resigned in May 2019, leaving the director's position open, and director of the mentoring institute, Gitanjali Batmanabane, served as director in-charge.

Campuses
The permanent  campus of AIIMS Kalyani is under construction, with an expected completion date in October 2020. Temporarily, classes of the first batch were taken at the College of Medicine & JNM Hospital campus in Kalyani, while students are already staying at the hostel on campus. An outpatient department (OPD) at the permanent campus is expected to start in February 2020.

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Category:Hospitals in West Bengal
Category:Medical colleges in West Bengal
Category:Educational institutions established in 2019
Category:Hospitals established in 2019
Category:2019 establishments in India
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