With Strict Bond Terms, Rajasthan In-Service PG Medicos Facing Trouble getting Study Leaves

Jaipur: With the State Government turning strict for implementation of bond service rules, the Rajasthan based in-service MBBS doctors, who have been selected for PG courses are facing troubles for getting study leaves.

Already, pointing out incomplete and improperly filled bonds, the State Health Department has released a list of 12 candidates asking them to submit properly filled bonds in order to get study leaves.

This is a result of the Government's recent policy for strictly implementing the bond conditions from 2022. Accordingly, the method to scrutinise the bonds filled  by selected PG candidates has also become stricter from this academic session.

Medical Dialogues had last month reported that the Rajasthan Government had reduced the compulsory bond service period for doctors pursuing PG and Super Specialty courses in the state-run medical colleges got reduced from a period of 5 years to 2 years. The penalty amount for those who do not want to serve had been decided by the Government as Rs 25 lakhs.

In the notification, the Government had clarified that those performing compulsory bond service can work as senior residents at state-run medical colleges, assistant professors at state-run medical colleges (after completion of senior residency), and junior residents and senior demonstration at government medical colleges and hospitals.

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As per the latest media report by the Times of India, the State has started strictly implementing the bond service conditions from 2022 and accordingly, it is now strictly scrutinising bond forms submitted by the MBBS doctors who are in government service and who have been shortlisted for PG courses for the current academic session.

Consequent to the scrutiny, the State Health Department has released a list of 12 candidates who did not submit their bonds in a proper way. Several bond forms did not have complete details including proper signatures, and addresses of the witnesses.

Clarifying that incomplete bonds are not acceptable, the Health Department of the State has also directed those candidates for filling up the bond forms properly for getting the study leaves.

The daily adds that the Medical Education Department of Rajasthan has recently released a revised list of candidates who completed their PG medical courses in 2022. While earlier the list had names of 417 candidates, there are a total number of 659 candidates in the revised list. They will be employed either in the posts of senior residents, or demographer or assistant professors.

If they do not comply with the bond terms by serving the Government for 2 years, they will have to pay an amount of Rs 25 lakh as penalty.

Meanwhile, some of the in-service MBBS doctors who have completed their PG degrees in 2022 are unsure about their chances of getting posted as Senior Residentship in Medical Colleges. While the Government has started strictly following the medical bond conditions from 2022, the Government has only issued a list containing the names of non-service doctors for the SRship.

While commenting on the matter, an in-service doctor who finished his PG in obstetrics and gyneacology from Kota medical college in 2022 and got posted at a community health centre in Banswara district told the daily, "Medical education department has released a list of 659 non-service candidates (those MBBS doctors who were not in govt service and completed their PG in 2022). They have been asked to fill their choices for senior residentship. Since one year of senior residentship is mandatory for getting post of assistant professor, we are confused now, if we will get a chance of doing senior residentship as the medical education department has released the list of only non-service candidates asking them to fill the forms for senior residentship."

In such a context, the in-service doctors have sought clarity from the Government about the process for applying in the posts of Senior Residentships. 

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