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    2,720 New MBBS Seats but Bihar, with lowest doctor-population ratio, gets ZERO

    2,720 New MBBS Seats but Bihar, with lowest doctor-population ratio, gets ZERO

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    Maheshwer PeriUpdated on 07 Sep 2025, 12:57 PM IST
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    The students of India’s most populous states seem to have lost out in the latest National Medical Commissions permissions for increased intake for MBBS. While states like Karnataka and Maharashtra managed to increase student intake by 400 and 350, respectively, Three of the most populous states seem to have got a raw deal.

    2,720 New MBBS Seats but Bihar, with lowest doctor-population ratio, gets ZERO
    2,720 new MBBS seats

    The poll bound Bihar got ZERO increase, Uttar Pradesh secured just 50 MBBS seats and West Bengal got just 75 MBBS seats. Even Andhra Pradesh, an NDA ally, could get just 30 seats for itself.

    Interestingly, all the seats increased in Tamil Nadu and Kerala were in the Private Deemed medical institutes space. It would be interesting to know whether the demand for increase in the government medical college seats by governments of Tamil Nadu and Kerala were rejected.

    State-Wise Distribution of MBBS Seats Increased (2025-26)

    State

    New Govt Colleges

    Govt Seat Increase (existing)

    Deemed Univ Increase

    Total

    Karnataka

    0

    400

    50

    450

    Maharashtra

    50

    0

    300

    350

    Madhya Pradesh

    200

    75

    0

    275

    Odisha

    200

    0

    50

    250

    Haryana

    200

    0

    0

    200

    Jammu & Kashmir

    0

    190

    0

    190

    Assam

    50

    125

    0

    175

    Tamil Nadu

    0

    0

    150

    150

    Kerala

    100

    0

    0

    100

    Punjab

    50

    50

    0

    100

    Rajasthan

    100

    0

    0

    100

    Telangana

    50

    25

    0

    75

    West Bengal

    0

    75

    0

    75

    Delhi (NCT)

    50

    0

    0

    50

    Gujarat

    50

    0

    0

    50

    Meghalaya

    50

    0

    0

    50

    Uttar Pradesh

    50

    0

    0

    50

    Andhra Pradesh

    0

    30

    0

    30

    TOTAL

    1,200

    970

    550

    2,720

    The lack of allocations to Bihar, UP and West Bengal could have been justified if they already have high intake. However, Bihar has less than 23 doctors for a million population - the lowest in the country (basis the top 20 most populous states in India). Uttar Pradesh has just 52 to a million population. On the other hand, Karnataka has 183 doctors to a million population, Tamil Nadu has 156 and Maharashtra has 92 doctors to a million population.

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    MBBS Seat Capacity vs Estimated Population (2025)

    S.No

    State / UT

    Seats

    Population (Million)

    Seats per Million Population

    1

    Telangana

    9,065

    38.5

    235.45

    2

    Karnataka

    12,545

    68.7

    182.61

    3

    Tamil Nadu

    12,050

    77.4

    155.68

    4

    Kerala

    4,905

    36.1

    135.93

    5

    Andhra Pradesh

    6,735

    52.9

    127.34

    6

    Jammu & Kashmir

    1,347

    12.3

    109.59

    7

    Gujarat

    7,250

    73.5

    98.64

    8

    Maharashtra

    11,846

    128.7

    92.04

    9

    Rajasthan

    6,476

    78.2

    82.85

    10

    Chhattisgarh

    2,255

    31

    72.74

    11

    Haryana

    2,185

    31.1

    70.37

    12

    Delhi

    1,497

    22.3

    67.13

    13

    Odisha

    2,725

    42

    64.88

    14

    Madhya Pradesh

    5,200

    82.3

    63.16

    15

    Punjab

    1,850

    31.2

    59.29

    16

    West Bengal

    5,676

    100.2

    56.66

    17

    Assam

    1,650

    31.2

    52.88

    18

    Uttar Pradesh

    12,475

    241

    51.76

    19

    Jharkhand

    1,055

    33

    31.97

    20

    Bihar

    2,995

    131

    22.86

    So, the big question that needs to be asked is this:

    Why are the three most populous states also with very low doctor to population ratio not increasing capacity?

    Why are we not investing enough in medical education in these states so that they can have better healthcare professionals?

    Why are we ignoring these states?

    Why is it that Tamil Nadu and Kerala did not get any sanction for public institutions and all that have been granted are private MBBS seats only?

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