Bihar raises PG medical and dental stipends; first-year residents now get ₹92,800 a month

Bihar has revised the monthly stipend paid to postgraduate medical and dental students in its government colleges, with the new rates applying retrospectively from 1 January 2026.

The revised rates

Year	Was	Now
First	₹82,000	₹92,800
Second	₹90,200	₹1,02,000
Third	₹99,220	₹1,12,200

The stipend is payable for a maximum of twelve months a year, and unauthorised absence is deducted proportionately from that month’s payment.

Why a stipend line deserves this much attention

Because for three years it is the entire income of a doctor working hospital hours. A resident is not a student sitting in a lecture hall; they run wards, take night duties and carry real clinical load. What they are paid for it varies sharply between states, and far more sharply between government and private colleges, where delayed or simply unpaid stipends have driven repeated strikes and litigation.

So when you rank state-quota choices after NEET PG, put the stipend on the list beside the department’s reputation and case load. A college that pays late is telling you something about how it treats its residents generally.

State health minister Nishant Kumar framed the increase as financial support during training, noting that today’s PG students are the state’s future specialists. The revision lands alongside the National Medical Commission clearing two new medical colleges in Bihar. Capacity and retention are two halves of the same problem.

CareerBox News Desk, reporting on the Bihar Health Department’s revision of PG medical and dental stipends, effective 1 January 2026. Dates and eligibility change; confirm them on the official portal before you act.