the year 2016, the management of the ESIC showed its reluctance to run this college at its own and ultimately the project was handed over to the Government of Himachal Pradesh after signing a memorandum of understanding under certain conditions. The state government has applied to the NMC to accord permission for starting the batch from 2017–18 for this medical college now renamed as Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Govt. Medical College, Mandi at Ner Chowk