Hi Aashta,

In some cases, yes it is mandatory. About every state has rural posting bond except for Delhi.

Delhi is having no rural areas, there are no villages in Delhi, therefore there is not rural bond.

Refer to site : AIPMEE, Under the tab ‘Participating institutions’, you will get all bond related information you need for each and every medical college via neet ug all India quota.

To sum it you do NOT have mbbs rural bonds yet in colleges of following states-Delhi, HP, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Kerala, West Bengal, Orissa, North eastern states (except AMC, Dibrugarh ), Puducherry, MMC and few colleges in Tamil Nadu.

Central institutes like AIIMS,JIPMER, IMS-BHU, AMU etc. have no service bonds attached.

Apart from these all other states have some kind of rural service bonds varying from one year to five years - Rajasthan, Gujarat, MP, Maharashtra , Goa, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Andaman & Nicobar.

For bond money and years of service please refer the given link.

Hope this solves your query.

Please note that the scenario may change quickly in the coming years as most of the states have started considering rural bonds in the future and even Centre is keen on introducing rural service nation wide.

All the best for your future exams!

Hope this helps.

Good luck!