Rs 25 lakh penalty for PG medical, SS admissions- Check out complete Rajasthan Bond Policy

Jaipur: The State Medical Education Department has made it compulsory for the doctors completing postgraduate degrees and super-speciality programs from Rajasthan Government or Rajsthan Medical Education Society (RajMES) medical colleges to serve at medical college-affiliated hospitals for two years. 

In this regard, the Rajasthan Medical Education Department recently issued an order that also specified the guidelines on counselling. At the time of admission to the PG and super-specialty courses, the students must submit a service bond of Rs 25 lakh with an assurance to serve the State for two years.

Bond Service Tenure & Penalty:

As per the notification, the doctors completing postgraduate and superspecialty courses will have to serve the State for two years, and in this regard, they will have to submit a bond of Rs 25 lakh at the time of admission.

The order further specified that if any student is unwilling to serve the government bond service, then he/she can be freed from the same by depositing the prescribed bond amount.

Also Read: Bond Penalty reduced to Rs 10 lakh for PG, SS medicos in Rajasthan, Rs 5 lakh after completing 1 year service

Posting:

The notification mentioned that after completing the PG and super specialty courses, the students of other government colleges/institutes would be appointed as Senior residents in State Government/Rajmes / RUHS / ESI Alwar for 2 years.

For this, the SR Allotment Board will obtain yearly information of postgraduate and SS course students graduating from GMCs, generally 2 months before the course completion.

The State has further mentioned that the students completing these courses will get to submit their posting options for vacant posts of SRs in medical colleges. 

The notification mentioned that the in-service candidates in broad specialty departments will be allotted the post of SR for only one year and if the in-service candidates wish to work as Senior Residents in super speciality departments, they can also be allotted the post through counselling.

Candidates who have passed the Super Speciality course are also eligible for the post of Assistant Professor. Therefore, the senior resident of super specialty departments will be designated as assistant professor, mentioned the notification.

Allotment of SRship:

The State has also assured to allot seats for Senior Residency (SR) only in the respective Area of Specialization of the candidates and has informed that such seats would be classified based on the department-wise ratio of in-service and non-service candidates of the 2021 batch. It has also made it clear that separate merit lists would be issued for in-service and non-service candidates.

Bond Conditions for Doctors Joining Super Specialisation after PG:

For doctors who get selected for the super specialty course while doing the PG course, the State has specified that such students will be asked to submit a bond to serve the State for 2 years after completing the super specialty courses.

Bond Service for Students Selected for Fellowship in INIs:

As per the notification, if a student gets selected for Fellowship in any Institute of National Importance such as AIIMS, PGI, JIPMER, he will also be allowed only on the condition of serving government for 2 years after fellowship.

Allotment of SRship: 

The allotment of SRship will be after dividing the candidates in in-service and non-service category. As per the State notification, the seats of Senior Residency will be classified based on department-wise ratio of in-service and non-service candidates of 2021 MD/MS/DM/MCH batch.

To determine merit for allotment to in-service candidates, their scores for PG admission will be considered. On the other hand, for the non-service candidates, their NEET PG score will be considered.

However, in the case of special circumstances such as global disaster (eg-Covid), natural disaster, flood, drought etc., the State Government can consider giving them appointment against any post as per requirement.

Separate Merit Lists but Common Counselling:

The State has informed that there will be separate merit lists for in-service and non-service candidates. However, there will be a common counselling for in-service and non-service candidates for super speciality. It will be issued based on the NEET SS rank of the candidates. Reservation policy of Rajasthan State will be followed for counseling for the post of Senior Resident.

After the counselling process, the process to fill up the vacant posts of Senior Residents will be done at the level of the concerned Principals. For this, all the candidates other than the bond batch will be eligible.

For this, the State has directed all the principals to ensure that all PG (in service and non-service) and Superspeciality (only non-service and in service as per wish) candidates of the bond batch apply. In case of non-application, as per the information provided by the Principals, the allotment of those non-service candidates who will not apply for counselling will also be done automatically by the Counselling Board on the basis of availability of vacant posts.

If the candidate expresses unwillingness to join the allotted college, the State has directed the concerned principals to take action to recover the bond amount.

Verification and Returning Original Documents: 

The concerned medical college will keep the original documents of the candidates and it will only be released after completion of the bond service. For this, the concerned Principal and Controller will issue them with certificates regarding the government service and based on such certificates, the verification for 2 years of government service will be done.

If a candidate under bond service does his senior residency in AIIMS Jodhpur, RUHS Medical College, Jaipur and ESIC Medical College Alwar, then he will also be considered in bond service.

Original documents will only be returned to the students after completing the verification process. However, if the candidate gets selected for SS course or fellowship, and needs original documents, such documents will directly be sent to the concerned medical college where the student is taking admission.

Pay Scale, leave for SRs: 

As per the State notification, the pay scale of the Senior Residents will be as per the order of Medical Education Group 1 dated 31.05.2021 in the Government and Rajmes Medical Colleges of Rajasthan State. 

The doctors can avail a maximum of 15 days of payable casual leave per year during the SR period. Casual leave will be earned every full month. Maternity and paternity leave will be payable to the Senior Resident during the SR period as per rules.

Work Experience Certificate: 

The State mentioned in the notification that the Principals of the respective Medical Colleges will give work experience certificates according to the nature of work done by the candidates working in Broad Speciality/Super Speciality departments.

Further the State clarified that in the PG and Superspeciality departments of batch 2021, the relaxation given in the service bond in PG and Superspeciality departments as per the letter No. 806 dated 18.02.2022 of the Directorate of Medical Education will remain unchanged. All the conditions of service bond will be applicable to the candidates of these departments of the advance batch (2022 and further).

For the admission batch of postgraduate and super-speciality courses 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22, the bond amount was made Rs 10 lakh by providing one-time relaxation. The duration of the bond will be 02 years. This specific provision was also made for the admission batch 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22. It was mentioned that if a candidate does not want to serve the next one year of government service after completing one year of government service, then he can be freed from the bond for the remaining one year by depositing an amount of Rs 05 lakh in the treasury.

The State Medical Education Department has also made provisions to place all PG students graduating from the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS). Commenting on this, medical education secretary Ambrish Kumar told the Times of India, "For the first time, every PG student who graduates from RUHS will get to work in his area of specialisation. We have done an exact mapping for all students. Everyone will get to work for two years in his area of specialisation. They will work in a medical college as a senior resident."

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that back in 2022, the Rajasthan Government had offered partial relief to the Postgraduate and super-speciality medical students belonging to Government medical colleges in Rajasthan by offering one-time relaxation and reducing the bond amount from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Further, the State had decided to allow a special provision for the students admitted during the years 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022.

Last year, the State announced that doctors taking admission to postgraduate medical courses in Rajasthan government medical colleges would have to execute a service bond of Rs 25 lakh at the time of admission with an assurance of serving the government for two years after completion of the courses. Moreover, the doctors will also have to execute a surety bond of Rs 10 lakh assuring not to leave the seats midway.

To view the order, click on the link below:

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/sr-final-order1743522609878-281759.pdf

Also Read: 2 years service, Rs 25 Lakh Bond for PG Medical Admissions in Rajasthan