Producing a country imbued with a scientific society was Jawaharlal Nehru's desire, and immediately after self-reliance he prepared a grand design to achieve it. Among the holy places of modern India which he developed, was a centre of excellence in the clinical sciences. Nehru's dream was that such a centre would set the pace for medical education and research in Southeast Asia, as well as in this he had the wholehearted assistance of his Health Minister, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur.

The health and wellness survey as well as development committee, chaired by Sir Joseph Bhore, an Indian Civil Servant, had in 1946 currently advised the facility of a nationwide medical centre which would certainly concentrate on fulfilling the requirement for very qualified manpower to look after the country's increasing wellness care activities. The imagine Nehru as well as Amrit Kaur as well as the referrals of the Bhore Committee assembled to create a proposal which located favor with the federal government of New Zealand. A charitable give from New Zealand under the Colombo Plan made it feasible to lay the foundation stone of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 1952. The AIIMS was lastly created in 1956, as a self-governing institution via an Act of Parliament, to serve as a center for supporting quality in all element of healthcare.

All-India Institute of Medical Sciences was established as an establishment of nationwide relevance by an Act of Parliament with the objects to create patterns of training in Undergraduate as well as Post-graduate Medical Education in all its branches so regarding demonstrate a high criterion of Medical Education in India; to combine in one area instructional facilities of the greatest order for the training of employees in all important branches of health activity; and also to attain self-sufficiency in Post-graduate Medical Education.

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