AIIMS Patna -Class of 2012 started in on September 25,2012 with around 50 medical students. Another feather in the cap of Bihar

PATNA: The Jai Prakash Naryan All India Institute of Medical Sciences (JPNAIIMS), Patna, which is still under construction, on Tuesday started its first batch of MBBS course on its premises with 50 students, 13 girls and 37 boys, hailing from different parts of the country. They were admitted to the institute through an all-India premedical test conducted in New Delhi.

The Patna high court had fixed a deadline of October 2, 2012 to make the entire hospital function or face contempt proceedings. But it could not be met as in all probability the hospital would become functional 

only in 2013.

The classes were inaugurated by state health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey in the presence of institute director Girish Kumar Singh.

To start with, Singh said, the institute would impart training in four subjects - anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and community medicine - with a faculty of 19 medical teachers and four senior resident doctors recruited by the institute.

Choubey thanked the state government, Patna high court and the media for continual pressure on the centre to make the institute functional. "The union government was not so keen to start the institute this year but after much persuasion, the permission was granted and we could start the first batch," he said.

The director said the institute would cater to the elementary health problems of the local people for which a tele-education programme, 'Sankatmochan Nagrik', would be launched shortly. "Under the programme, a group of volunteers will work at the panchayat level facilitating communication between the institute and the local populace. They will also provide consultation and services to patients."

Singh said once the OPD service starts in the institute, the said programme would become functional. The trauma and emergency centres will become functional by the year end

 Jai Prakash Narayan All India Institute of Medical Sciences (JPN-AIIMS) is a medical college and medical research public university based in Patna, Bihar, The Institute will operate autonomously under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India).Though the foundation stone for the 350-crore project (2004 estimate) was laid in 2004 during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure, the project was delayed owing to the power shift at the Centre and its cost has escalated from 335 crore  to 850 crore .The JPNAIIMS, Patna, is under construction for over eight years. Its foundation was laid by the then vice-president, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, on January 3, 2004. In 2004,

Central government decided to set up NEW AIIMS at
 1. Rishikesh, 
 2. Bhopal, 
 3. Patna,
 4. Jodhpur,
 5. Bhubaneswar and 
 6. Raipur

 AIIMS at:
                 Jodhpur will start the academic session 2012-13 from September 17,2012,
                 Bhopal ,September 18,2012 ,
                 Rishikesh ,September 20,
                 Bhubaneswar (September 21),
                 Raipur (September 24) and
                 Patna(September 25,2012).AIIMS

New Delhi, has been mentoring the two new AIIMS in Patna and Bhubaneswar,
 PGI Chandigarh has been mentoring AIIMS coming up in Rishikesh and Jodhpur,
 JIPMER Puducherry has been overseeing the AIIMS in Bhopal and Raipur.

 AIIMS Patna will be spread over 134 acre comprising residential campus on 34 acre and the main campus on 100 acres.The 100-acre health hub, coming up at Walmi village near Phulwari Sharif, Patna