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Based connected information from the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) for 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) oregon NEET PG 2025-26 crossed the country.
According to information released precocious by the Health Ministry, implicit 18,000 postgraduate aesculapian seats remained unfilled successful authorities and backstage aesculapian colleges crossed India contempt the completion of Round 2 counselling, prompting the National Board of Examinations successful Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to revise the qualifying percentile. NBEMS said 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 much than 2,000 vacant seats each nether the private, absorption and NRI quotas. According to Central authorities data, the fig of postgraduate aesculapian seats accrued from 40,858 successful 2020 to astir 80,291 seats, including 17,707 Diplomate of National Board (DNB) and diploma seats.
Subjects with the maximum fig of vacant seats see microbiology, pathology, biochemistry, forensic medicine and pharmacology. Specialities specified arsenic wide medicine, vigor diagnosis, wide surgery, dermatology, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics proceed to beryllium the astir sought after.
The results of NEET PG 2025 were declared connected August 19, 2025. NBEMS had conducted the NEET PG 2025 introspection connected August 3, past year, with much than 2.42 lakh candidates appearing for the test. The introspection was held successful a azygous displacement connected a computer-based level crossed 301 cities and 1,052 trial centres.
Explaining wherefore a ample fig of seats stay vacant crossed the country, Rohan Krishnan, main patron of the Federation of All India Medical Association Doctors’ Association, said that portion lowering the NEET PG qualifying percentile undermines the credibility of the examination, the interest operation of backstage colleges, which starts astatine ₹20 lakh and goes up to ₹4 crore, is the superior deterrent.
“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,” a elder doc said.
