NMC clears 171 additional PG seats for 2025-26 academic year

NEW DELHI: Medical aspirants seeking postgraduate admissions volition get a wider prime this twelvemonth aft the National Medical Commission (NMC) approved 171 further PG seats crossed aesculapian colleges and directed counselling authorities to see them without waiting for ceremonial permissions. According to a nationalist notice, the 171 further seats span cardinal objective and diagnostic specialties, including wide medicine, wide surgery, anaesthesiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, radiology, dermatology, exigency medicine, psychiatry, orthopaedics, respiratory medicine and pathology. Colleges crossed aggregate states - including Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Odisha, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Haryana - person received further seats nether the entreaty process. In a announcement issued connected Dec 31, 2025, NMC's Medical Assessment and Rating Board said postgraduate seats granted by the First Appeal Committee for the 2025-26 world twelvemonth volition beryllium treated arsenic valid for the counselling process. Counselling authorities person been told they request not hold for letters of support (LoPs) from idiosyncratic institutions to proceed. The further seats were approved aft aesculapian colleges challenged earlier MARB decisions nether provisions of NMC Act, 2019.

These appeals were examined by the First Appeal Committee successful meetings held connected Dec 22 and 23, pursuing which other seats were sanctioned. The committee clarified that the database uploaded connected the NMC website would itself service arsenic the valid papers for counselling, ensuring that eligible PG seats are not mislaid owed to administrative delays. Formal LoPs for the recently sanctioned seats, it said, volition beryllium issued shortly. Officials said the determination is aimed astatine maximising spot utilisation portion retaining regulatory oversight done the entreaty mechanism. State aesculapian acquisition departments and counselling authorities person been instructed to enactment connected the determination immediately. For thousands of PG aspirants, the support offers further opportunities astatine a clip erstwhile contention for postgraduate aesculapian seats remains intense.