Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be inaugurating 11 new government medical colleges across Tamil Nadu as well as the new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai on Wednesday via video conferencing, his office said.

The new medical colleges are being established at an estimated cost of about â‚¹ 4,000 crore, of which around â‚¹ 2,145 crore has been provided by the Union government and the rest by the Tamil Nadu government, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.

Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate 11 new government medical colleges across Tamil Nadu and the new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai at 4 PM on January 12 via video conferencing, it said.

The districts where the new medical colleges are being established are Virudhunagar, Namakkal, Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Thiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri.

Establishment of these medical colleges is in line with the prime minister's constant endeavour to promote affordable medical education and improve health infrastructure in all parts of the country, the PMO said.

The new medical colleges, with a cumulative capacity of 1,450 seats, are being established under the centrally-sponsored scheme of 'Establishing of New Medical Colleges attached with existing district/referral hospital'.

Under the scheme, medical colleges are established in districts, which do not have either a government or private medical college, the statement said.

The establishment of a new campus of Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Chennai is in line with the prime minister's vision to protect and preserve Indian heritage and promote classical languages, the PMO said.