Govt to employ nursing, para medical students who cleared JEE: Mamata
The Statesman | 21 November 2025
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated more than one lakh students who have cleared Joint Entrance Examination and are going through counselling in nursing and para medical courses in various institutions.
Miss Banerjee in her X handle wrote: “The successful candidates will be absorbed in auxiliary nursing midwife (ANM) and general nursing midwife (GNM) to make the healthcare system more efficient. Professional training, jobs for one lakh students and development of the health sector will all add to the development of the sector.”
She congratulated the teachers of the successful candidates and their teachers.
Institutional delivery covers 98 per cent childbirth across the state. The ANM and GNM will improve the healthcare system in the state-run hospitals.
After coming to power in 2011, Miss Banerjee gave stress to improve the healthcare system in the state. There are 27 state-run medical colleges in Bengal, including AIIMS in Kalyani.
During Dr BC Roy’s term, the second chief minister of Bengal, there were four medical colleges in Bengal, namely Calcutta Medical College and Hospital , RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, National Medical College and Hospital and Nilratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital. There was also Chittaranjan Cancer Hospital.
Miss Banerjee made medical treatment free in state-run hospitals. SSKM Hospital and Calcutta Medical College and Hospital have become premier institutions in the country in research work. The research on Type I diabetes carried out at SSKM and IPGMER have received global recognition.
Swasthya Sathi card has been introduced, where people in private health care establishments can get financial support up to Rs 5 lakh.
The state government has opened super specialty hospitals in the districts. The new wing of Woodburn Ward named Ananya gives the chance to take medical advice from top doctors at a nominal fees and there is a paid indoor facility at an affordable rate.