Grant Medical College

Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JN Medical College or JNMC) is a medical college located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of Aligarh Muslim University.

Vardhman Mahavir Medical College was established at Safdarjung Hospital in November 2001. Padma Shree Dr. Jagdish Prasad is the founder Principal of the college.

The foundation stone of the medical college was laid by our then Honourable Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 17th December 2001 in presence of the then Honourable Home Minister Shri L.K.Advani and Honourable Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. C.P. Thakur . On 20th November 2007 Shri M. Hamid Ansari ,our Honourable Vice President has dedicated the Vardhman Mahavir Medical College building to the nation in the presence of Honourable Minister of Health & Family Welfare Dr Anbumani Ramadoss.


The first batch of MBBS students joined the college in February 2002 and they have completed their MBBS and even joined various PG courses in this year . Six batches have joined till now. The college has recognition by the Medical Council of India.


The college is affiliated to Guru Govind Singh I P University, Delhi. From 2008 onwards the post graduate courses are also affiliated to GGSIP University which were with Delhi University till now..


Although the college began on a very modest note on infrastructure carved out of the portions of the Safdarjang Hospital, today it is housed in a state of art centrally air-conditioned building . We have a separate Library building also with excellent collection of Medical books , Journals and Internet facility. Not only with regard to material infrastructure, the college has a very competent faculty in the pre, para clinical and clinical disciplines. The faculty consists of over 295 doctors who are highly qualified in their respective fields, possessing post-graduate qualifications . It is needless to emphasize that large number of the faculty members are of national and international repute with research papers, books publication and editorship of the journals to their credit. Some of the faculty members are the members of the executive bodies of the National/international Association/Academy and few of them are holding elected offices of the president of such associations. A large number of training workshops (including WHO workshops), CME’s seminars are being conducted here. Research activities of the highest order are under taken in all the disciplines of medicine and our institute is a centre for the research projects of ICMR, CSIR and WHO in some of the departments.

A new medical college was started in Miraj by government ofMaharashtra in 1962 when the first batch of students were admitted. At the beginning the college was located in the premises of Wanless Hospital,Miraj. College acquired huge land outside Miraj on Pandharpur road.Then Anatomy, Physiology departments were built seperately. This land was known as "Fasicha Maal" because when Miraj was aseperate Sansthan under British rule they used to hang the guilty/criminal openly on this vast open land . Department of Pathology, Pharmacology and Forensic Medicine were located in the Wanless hospital premises.First batch was of 60 students. They appeared for IIIMBBS exam in oct1966. The college was affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur till the starting of seperate university for medical sciences called Maharashtra University of Health Sciences ( MUHS) which is located inNasik . Somewhere in 1973 Civil Hospital located at Sangli was affiliated to this college.

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. Know a few people who were there. They are good docs and are all praise for this college.

Grant Medical College and sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, established in 1845, is a premier and pioneer medical institution of national and international fame and 166 years of glorious history. This oldest medical institution in Western India, run by Government of Maharashtra, provides undergraduate and postgraduate medical training and health care ranging from broad specialties to super-specialties along with tertiary care to patients. Grant Medical College Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals stand apart amongst all the medical colleges in Maharashtra because of its unique topography, connectivity and persistent leadership in medical training and health care for common man over past one and a half century.

The institute has four hospitals attached to it: 1) Sir J. J. Hospital 2) St. George’s Hospital 3) Gokuldas Tejpal (GT) Hospital 4) Cama Albless Hospital With combined bed strength of 2844 and caters to an annual load of 1,200,000 out patients and 80,000 indoor patients, from all parts of Maharashtra and central India.

With an annual intake capacity of 200 undergraduate students for MBBS and over 190 postgraduate students for various MD/ MS/ Diploma/ Super specialty courses, Grant Medical College Sir JJ Group of Hospitals stands among the Medical field as an institute of immense national importance. Free and quality treatment across a large number of specialties for people below poverty line and at a nominal cost to the common man is the hallmark of Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals.