Students joining BDS at a government dental college in Rajasthan have to put up a bank guarantee of ₹1 lakh and sign a bond of ₹4 lakh at the time of admission. The requirement has been republished in the notifications section of the state's UG medical counselling site, so candidates weighing a government BDS seat this year should budget for it before they lock a choice.
What the order says
The condition comes from an order of the Rajasthan Medical Education Department, No. 6(2)ME/Group-1/2012, issued at Jaipur on 27 January 2012. It records the decisions of a meeting held on 12 January 2012, chaired by the Principal Secretary for Medical Education, and the bond appears as decision 23 in that list. It is the clause the published copy highlights.
The reasoning is set out plainly in the order. Students who take a BDS seat in a government dental college sit the entrance test again the next year, get into MBBS, and abandon the BDS course. The seat then lies vacant for the rest of the cycle. The order says this causes a financial loss to the college and leaves the state short of dental graduates, and that to stop the practice, students admitted to BDS in a government dental college should be required to furnish a bank guarantee of ₹1 lakh and a bond of ₹4 lakh at admission.
Why it still matters, fourteen years on
The order is old and it predates NEET. In 2012 the entrance test it refers to was the Rajasthan Pre-Medical Test, which a common national exam later replaced. The behaviour the order was written to stop has not gone anywhere, though. A candidate who accepts BDS one year and re-attempts NEET the next for MBBS is doing exactly what the order describes, and the seat is vacated in exactly the same way.
That is worth thinking about carefully if BDS is your fallback rather than your intention. A government dental seat in Rajasthan is cheap and hard to get, but taking one while planning a re-attempt is the situation this order is aimed at.
Check the current figure before you commit
One caution. The document circulating for this cycle is the 2012 order itself, not a fresh notification restating the amounts for 2026-27. The clause is the standing authority for the bond, but the sums were set fourteen years ago and states do revise these. Before you treat ₹1 lakh and ₹4 lakh as final, confirm them against this year's information booklet or with the competent authority conducting the counselling. Ask specifically what releases the bank guarantee and when.
Counselling terms are the authority's to interpret, and ours is not the last word on them. If your reading of a clause differs from the authority's, theirs governs.
What to do now
- If you are considering a government BDS seat in Rajasthan, arrange the bank guarantee before reporting, not on the day.
- Ask the college what documentation the guarantee needs and how long your bank takes to issue one.
- Get in writing the conditions under which the bond is discharged.
- If BDS is a placeholder while you plan another attempt at MBBS, price that plan honestly against a ₹4 lakh bond.
Past closing ranks help you judge whether the seat is within reach at all. We track BDS closing ranks in Rajasthan alongside the MBBS closing ranks, and our Rajasthan counselling guide follows the rounds. You can check where a particular rank stands on our college predictor.
Official links
- Rajasthan Medical Education Department order on the government BDS bond and bank guarantee (PDF)
- Rajasthan NEET UG medical counselling portal
Source: Government of Rajasthan, Medical Education Department — order No. 6(2)ME/Group-1/2012 dated 27 January 2012, recording the decisions of the review meeting of 12 January 2012, published in the notifications section of the Rajasthan UG medical counselling site.