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Based connected information from the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) regarding the 2025-26 world session, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu person the highest fig of vacant seats nether the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Postgraduate) (NEET-PG) 2025-26 crossed India.
According to information released by the Health Ministry recently, implicit 18,000 post-graduate aesculapian seats remained unfilled successful authorities and backstage aesculapian colleges crossed India contempt the completion of Round-2 counselling, prompting the National Board of Examination and Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to bring successful a revised qualifying percentile. NBEMS said that the qualifying percentile cut-off for the 3rd circular of NEET-PG this twelvemonth has been reduced to zero for reserved categories.
Meanwhile, each 3 States – Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu – person implicit 2000 vacant seats each successful private/management and NRI quota. According to the Central Government data, the fig of PG seats accrued from 40,858 successful 2020 to astir 80,291 PG aesculapian seats (including 17,707 Diplomate of National Board (DNB), and Diploma seats etc).
Subjects that person the maximum vacant seats see – microbiology, pathology, biochemistry, forensic medicine and pharmacology. Subjects including wide medicine, radio-diagnosis, wide surgery, dermatology, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics are the astir successful demand.
The effect of NEET-PG 2025 was declared connected 19th August 2025. NBEMS connected August 3, past year, concluded the NEET PG 2025 exam with much than 2,42,000 candidates. The exam was conducted successful a azygous displacement connected the computer-based level crossed 301 cities and successful 1052 trial centres.
Explaining wherefore truthful galore seats enactment vacant crossed India Rohan Krishnan, main patron, Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIIMS) Doctors’ Association, said that portion lowering NEET PG qualifying percentile destroys the credibility of this exam it is the backstage colleges interest operation that begins astatine 20 lakh and goes up to 4 crore that is the main deterrent and crushed for vacant seats.
“The prohibitive outgo of education, reluctance to prime up non-clinical subjects, deficiency of bully teaching staff, infrastructure, diligent load and stipend – are besides issues that request to beryllium instantly addressed if we privation to guarantee that NEET PG seats are taken up,” said a elder doctor.
