Haryana cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, approved in-principle the proposal of Medical Education and Research Department to set up the Kalpana Chawla University of Health Sciences at village Kutail in district Karnal.

The university will have nursing and paramedical courses, undergraduate, post graduate, post doctoral courses, specialists and super specialists in the medical field. A 300 bedded super specialty hospital will also be attached with the University. A sum of Rs 100 crore has been earmarked to establish the university in the current financial year.

The village panchayat Kutail has offered over 178 acres of panchayat land on a long term lease for a period of 99 years at the rate of rupee one per acre per year to the Medical Education and Research Department for establishing the University.