# Jharkhand to hire 306 specialist doctors via bidding process 2026-10-03T02:51:26+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Jharkhand's health department will recruit 306 specialist doctors through a bidding process to fill vacancies in government hospitals, with applications open from 8 October to 31 October. The drive covers 200 non-teaching specialist posts and 106 specialist medical officer posts for district hospitals, sub-divisional hospitals and community health centres. Additional chief secretary (health) Ajoy Kumar Singh said the state needs 1.1 lakh hospital beds against the existing 28,000, and requires about 40,000 doctors to meet the WHO-prescribed doctor-patient ratio. The state currently has around 7,000 MBBS doctors. Candidates can bid for up to three facilities, quoting separate monthly remuneration that cannot exceed Rs 3 lakh. Appointments will be contractual until regular specialists are posted. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The 306 posts being filled now are a fraction of the 2,000 specialists the health minister promised in six months, and a tiny sliver of the 40,000 doctors the state itself says it needs. The bidding process caps pay at Rs 3 lakh per month and offers only contractual tenure, which may deter candidates for remote facilities. With 28,000 beds against a stated requirement of 1.1 lakh, the infrastructure gap is even wider than the doctor shortage. The department has set an application window until 31 October but has not announced a timeline for posting selected candidates beyond that. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Led with the recruitment number, not the shortage, but included official's gap figures without challenge. This brief was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Ajoy Kumar Singh, Irfan Ansari, Jharkhand, National Health Mission, WHO Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/jharkhand-to-hire-306-specialist-doctors-via-bidding-process/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/jharkhand-to-hire-306-specialist-doctors-via-bidding-process/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/