Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday inaugurate as many as 11 new government medical colleges, and the new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Tamil Nadu. In a statement, PM Modi said, the medical colleges will be inaugurated across the southern state while the new campus of the central institute will be opened in the capital city Chennai.

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On Tuesday, in a tweet, PM Modi stated that the new medical colleges will “augment health infrastructure and ensure affordable healthcare to the people of Tamil Nadu.”

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The colleges have been constructed at an estimated cost of nearly Rs 4,000 crore, of which around Rs 2,415 crore has been given by the Union government whereas the remaining amount has been provided by the state.

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Hindustan Times reported that the 11 districts where the medical institutes have been set up are the Nilgiris, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Namakkal, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram, Krishnagiri, Tiruppur and Virudhunagar. There will be a cumulative capacity of 1,450 seats in the 11 new medical colleges.

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The institutes have been established under the Centre’s ‘Establishing of New Medical Colleges attached with existing district/referral hospital’ scheme. Under this, medical colleges are set up in districts that lack either a government or a private medical college.

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According to the PMO, the new campus has been constructed in sync with PM Modi’s “vision to protect and preserve Indian heritage and promote classical languages.”