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.

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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.

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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