In July 2014,[2] in the budget speech for 2014–15, the Minister of FinanceArun Jaitley announced a budget of ₹500 crore (equivalent to ₹679 crore or US$89 million in 2020) for setting up four new AIIMS, in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and the Purvanchal region in Uttar Pradesh,[2] the so-called “Phase-IV” institutes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Gorakhpur on 22 July 2016.[3] An outpatient department (OPD) started on 24 February 2019[4] and the first batch of 50 MBBS students started later that year, making it one of six AIIMSs to become operational in 2019.[5] Surekha Kishor was appointed director in March 2020.
