Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College

Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College is a government medical college on Jail Road in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, run by the Government of Chhattisgarh. It started on 9 September 1963 with 60 students in a small OPD block of the Ayurvedic College, received recognition from the Medical Council of India in 1969, and the building at its present site was completed on 30 September 1976. The college is affiliated to Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Memorial Health Sciences and Ayush University of Chhattisgarh. Its teaching hospital, the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Hospital, opened on the campus in 1995 and has 1,200 beds. In July 2026 the National Medical Commission permitted an increase of 20 MBBS seats, from 230 to 250, for the 2026-27 academic year.

The MBBS course lasts five and a half years including a one-year compulsory rotating internship. Fifteen per cent of the seats go to the all-India quota, three per cent to Central Government nominees and eighty-two per cent to state-quota candidates, with admission through NEET (UG) counselling. Postgraduate courses began in 1971-72, and the college reports 146 MD/MS seats across its departments; admission is through NEET (PG) with all-India and state-quota counselling. The National Medical Commission granted two DM Cardiology seats in March 2026. The college also runs a Bachelor of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (B.ASLP) course and an M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnology, which admits 10 students for 2026-27 through an entrance test held by the college.