Budget 2014: Four New AIIMS Will Include One in Purvanchal, Home to PM's Constituency

The government will set up four new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the country, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.

"We propose to set up four more AIIMS and Rs.500 crore set aside for this. The four new AIIMS will be in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Vidarbha in Maharashtra and Purvanchal in Uttar Pradesh," Mr Jaitley said while tabling the union budget in parliament.

He also said that the other six AIIMS at Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Patna (Bihar), Rishikesh (Uttarakhand), Bhubaneshwar (Orissa) and Raipur (Chhattisgarh)have become functional.