The Narendra Modi-led government, soon after completing four years in power, had boasted of approving 13 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 48 months as against seven till 2017. An India Today investigation reveals how the government has failed to start even one until now.

To find out the status of these 13 AIIMS, India Today filed a Right to Information (RTI) query with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The response to RTI revealed that no funds have yet been allocated to five of the approved 13 AIIMS by the Modi government.

Moreover, no funds have been released to four of the approved AIIMS which are proposed in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat.

Here is what the ministry's response to India Today's RTI reveal:

No funds have been allocated to five of the approved AIIMS yet. They are situated in Jammu, Kashmir, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat.

No time frame has been fixed by the cabinet for five AIIMS which are in Jammu, Kashmir, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.

Less than 10 per cent of the sanctioned fund has been given to the AIIMs in Uttar Pradesh which is expected to be functional by March 2020.

BJP in its manifesto in 2014 had promised to "increase the number of medical and paramedical colleges to make India self-sufficient in human resources, and set up an AIIMS like institute in every state."

Here's a reality check:

Status of AIIMS Uttar Pradesh

The site finalised for the project is in CM Yogi Adityanath's home turf Gorakhpur. The project was approved at a cost of Rs 1,011 crore but so far only Rs 98.34 crore has been released. It has to be completed by March 2020. With less than 10 per cent of funding so far, its completion in the next 21 months looks very unlikely.

Status of AIIMS Uttar Pradesh

Status of AIIMS Andhra Pradesh

The approved cost of the project was Rs 1,618 crore but so far only Rs 233.88 crore has been released. The time limit for its completion is October 2020, which again clearly suggests that meeting the target is close to impossible.

Status of AIIMS Andhra Pradesh

Status of AIIMS West Bengal

A site has been finalised at Kalyani. The project was approved at a cost of Rs 1,754 crore however, only Rs 278.42 crore has been released. There is a deadline for October 2020 and it can completed only if work proceeds at a very fast pace.

Status of West Bengal

Status of AIIMS Maharashtra

The deadline for a AIIMS in Nagpur is again October 2020 but out of Rs 1,577 crore that were approved only Rs 231.29 crore have been released.

Status of AIIMS Maharashtra

Status of AIIMS Assam

The approved cost for this project at Jalah village in Mouza Sila Sindhuri Ghopa in Kamrup district is Rs 1,123 crore. So far, only Rs 5 crore has been released but the deadline remains April 2021.

Status of AIIMS Assam

Status of AIIMS Punjab

It is supposed to come up in Bathinda and the project was approved for Rs 925 crore. As of now, only a mere Rs 36.57 crore has been released. The deadline for its completion is June 2020.

Status of AIIMS Punjab

Status of AIIMS Jammu and Kashmir

The site for Jammu region was finalised at Vijaypur in Samba district, and for the Kashmir division the site was finalised at Awantipora in Pulwama district. So far, no money has been allocated. But interestingly, Rs 90.84 crore has been released. No deadline has been fixed for it

Status of AIIMS Jammu and Kashmir

Status of AIIMS Himachal Pradesh

The site finalised for this project is in Bilaspur. The total cost approved for it is Rs 1,350 crore. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the project on October 3, 2017. However, no funds have been released with the deadline being December 2021.

Status of AIIMS Bihar

The project was proposed in the 2015-16 Union Budge. However, in the last three years neither the site has been finalised nor the funds have been allocated.

Status of AIIMS Tamil Nadu

Thopur in Madurai has been chosen as the site but no funds have been allocated and there is no deadline.

Status of AIIMS Jharkhand

The site identified for the project is at Deogarh. The approved total cost for the project is Rs 1103 crore out of which only Rs 9 crore has been released so far. It has to be completed by 2021.

Status of AIIMS Jharkhand

Status of AIIMS Gujarat

Like Bihar, Tamil Nadu, this too neither has a site nor funds. Obviously, there is no deadline.

Below are the details of the RTI