chennai prime minister narendra modi on wednesday inaugurated 11 government medical colleges in tamil nadumodi virtually inaugurated the colleges he also opened the new building of the central institute of classical tamil cict herethe new medical colleges have come up at virudhunagar namakkal nilgiris tiruppur tiruvallur nagapattinam dindigul kallakurichi ariyalur ramanathapuram and krishnagiri districts in the state and would have a cumulative capacity of 1450 medical seatsthe government had earlier said establishment of these medical colleges was in line with the prime ministers constant endeavour to promote affordable medical education and improve health infrastructure in all parts of the countrythe new colleges have been set up under the centrallysponsored scheme of establishing new medical colleges attached with existing districtreferral hospitalover 15 crore people in these districts and adjoining areas would benefit from the new initiativetamil nadu chief minister m k stalin and union health minister mansukh mandavia were present here for the inauguration