The agitation put up by Chandrapur residents for getting a government medical college has paid off. The state cabinet on Wednesday decided to increase the number of medical colleges it is setting up to five by including Chandrapur's name. A medical college was earlier announced for Vidarbha but the government went back on its word and decided to set them up in Mumbai, Nandurbar, Alibaug and Satar.

In the cabinet meeting health minister Suresh Shetty (Cong) and medical education and drugs department minister Dr Vijaykumar Gavit ( NCP) clashed over whether to attach existing civil hospitals to the new colleges or to set up entirely new facility for them.