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Cover Story Sankalp years
Shakti of

INCREASED OPPORTUNITIES IN MEDICAL
AND HIGHER EDUCATION
METRORAIL
AIIMS IITS
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2014 2023 2014 2023 5
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2014 2023
IIMS UNIVERSITIES
Cities with Metro Rail
20 1200
20

1000 1113 n The first metro in India was started in Kolkata in 1984
15 but the pace at which it was supposed to expand did
800
not happen.
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10 600 720
n Till the year 2014 only around half a km of the metro

400
5 line was being built every month, in 2023 about 6 km
200 of the metro line is being laid every month.
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2014 2023 2014 2023 n Metrorail's network was 248 km in 2014, which became
815 km in 2023, ie 567 km was connected in 9 years.
COLLEGES

n Work on a 1000 km new metro line is going on fast
50000
in the country with metro rail, light metro, and nano
40000 43,796 metro.
38,498
30000
20000
10000
0
2014 2023

MEDICAL COLLEGES & SEATS

n Medical colleges
800
increased by 71% and
700
UG seats by 97% and
600
660 PG seats by 110%.
500
400
n MBBS seats were 51,348

300 387
in the year 2014, which
200
increased to 1,01,043 in
100
2023.
0
2014 2023
n In the year 2014, PG
Medical Colleges seats of medical were
31,185, which increased
to 65,335 in 2023.
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