PATNA, Jan. 29 -- The health department has constituted a six-member committee to hold consultations with key stakeholders on implementing the state government's proposed policy to ban private practice by government doctors and to introduce incentives for those posted in remote rural areas, officials said on Wednesday. The move follows the Bihar cabinet's approval on December 16, 2025, to roll out the government's flagship programme 'Saat Nischay-3' (Seven Resolves 3.0) for the 2025-30 period. Under its fifth resolution - "accessible health-secure life" - the state plans to prohibit private practice by government doctors while introducing a separate incentive system to ensure better healthcare delivery in rural and remote regions. According to an order issued on Tuesday by special secretary (health) Himanshu Sharma, the committee will be headed by Dr Rekha Jha, director-in-chief (nursing and disease control), Bihar health services. Its members include the medical superintendent of Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH), the principal of Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH), Bihar Health Services Association president Dr KK Mani, its general secretary Dr Rohit Kumar, and Dr Bibhuti Prassan Sinha, professor and head of ophthalmology department at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS). Officials said the panel might examine models followed by institutions of national importance such as AIIMS and the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, where private practice is prohibited and doctors are compensated through a non-practising allowance (NPA) - generally up to 20% of basic pay - to ensure quality patient care. Patna's IGIMS, in the pattern of AIIMS, does not allow private practice of doctors, and gives them NPA....