A stage towards setting up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Tamil Nadu was taken, when a group, appointed by the Union Health Ministry, involving authorities, medicinal experts and a designer and a specialist went to the State to distinguish land for the undertaking.

The group captain by Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in the wake of reviewing one of the proposed destinations at Erode area that the motivation was just to give an itemized report about each of the five areas proposed by the State government.

There is a check list and will guarantee that every one of the prerequisites for an organization of the stature of AIIMS are met. won't focus in on any of the detects; that will be finished by the fitting power in Delhi

The State government had proposed five areas for the AIIMS extend and presented a plausibility report for each of them. These areas are: Pudukottai town in Pudukottai region, Thoppur in Madurai region, Perundurai in Erode locale, Sengipatti in Thanjavur, and Chengalpattu in Kancheepuram region.

An AIIMS-like establishment will raise the profile of the locale obviously, will mean extra subsidizing and a deluge of medicinal vacationers, understudies from different regions, States and likely even outside the nation, specialists bring up.

The hurl up is between a northern area and a spot that would be available to southern regions. With openness to an airplane terminal being one of the key necessities, it gives Coimbatore, Madurai, and Chengalpet a slight favorable position.