After the government of India launched the scheme -“Upgradation of District Hospitals to Medical College”- to produce at least more than 15,000 doctors, Nagaland’s proposal in 2013-14 for a medical college in Kohima was approved and later the second medical college at Mon was also approved in 2020. The first medical college at Kohima is estimated to cost a total of Rs.198 crore for upgradation and conversion of the present Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK) to medical college. According to sources, the medical college at Kohima will have 100 seats for MBBS. Foundation stone for the medical college being set up at Phriebagei, Kohima was laid by chief minister Neiphiu Rio on March 3,2014. According to official sources, the Centre has already released its share of Rs. 171.10 crore for establishment of Medical college at Kohima. The state share as per the 90:10 ratio is around Rs.24 crore. The State has reported progress of 16.50% on union health ministry’s dashboard. The state has also been requested to expedite completion of the college. The medical college at Kohima will have two campuses-the administrative, academic, hostel complex for students and residential complex of faculty and staff for the medical college will be at Phriebagie, while the teaching hospital campus at the Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NKAH). According to reports, the NHAK has over 200 bedded capacity and would be increased further. The second medical college in Nagaland will be at Mon. As per reports the Mon district hospital has less than 50 beds and will have to expand bed capacity to at least 200 within the next few years. The foundation stone for the Mon Medical College was laid by union minister of health and family welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan on February 26,2021. The medical college at Mon through upgradation and conversion of Mon district hospital to a medical college, comes at a cost of Rs 325 crore of which Rs 292 crore would be given by the centre and is planned to be completed by 2023-24. The state share is estimated at Rs.33 crore. The Mon Medical College is scheduled to be completed by 2023-24 and will offer MBBS degrees for 100 students. Nagaland will finally have not one but two medical colleges after 58 years of statehood. Nagaland missed the bus on several occasions in the past such as the having a full fledged medical college in Dimapur during 90s when the 500-bedded Referral Hospital project launched during the late 80s, was abandoned due cost escalations from around Rs.30 crore to over Rs.100 crore. Dimapur should have the long awaited medical college as the present Christian Institute of Health Science and Research (CIHSR) erstwhile Referral Hospital, has all the requirements. The CIHSR is located in 130 acres and with capacity for 500 beds. It also has a nursing college and a BSL -2 set up. What is more, Dimapur urban with a population of 2.6 lakh (Dimapur district has four lakh people) also has over two dozen hospitals, multi-speciality centres, nursing homes. Dimapur is the commercial centre and among the top cities in the north east and well connected by road, rail and air with the rest of the country. Much more can be said about the viability and feasibility of having a full fledged medical college in Dimapur, the cosmopolitan city of Nagaland and here, the elected members of the district ought to make the right pitch so as to benefit the entire state.