evidence: New Delhi: If the claims of the government-led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi are to be believed, all the 16 new AIIMS would become fully operational by February 2023. Besides, AIIMS-Delhi, the six AIIMS that was announced by the late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee have already become fully operational. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, the Health Ministry has stated that the government has sanctioned setting up of 22 AIIMS under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakhsha Yojana (PMSSY) in several states as per the budget announcements. [...] The AIIMS Rajkot (Gujarat) would be operational in October 2022, while AIIMS Bibinagar (Telangana) would also come into operation one month earlier in the same year and AIIMS Manethi (Haryana) would be functional in February 2023. Apart from 22 new AIIMS, proposals for setting up AIIMS-like hospitals have been received from Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tripura and Mizoram.