NMC Clears Around 450 Additional PG Medical Seats for 2025–26 After Appeals In a major boost to postgraduate medical education, the Nation...
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NMC Clears Around 450 Additional PG Medical Seats for 2025–26 After Appeals
In a major boost to postgraduate medical education, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has approved around 450 additional PG medical seats for the academic year 2025–26. The approvals were granted after the Medical Assessment and Rating Board’s (MARB) First Appeal Committee reviewed appeals submitted by medical colleges across the country.
The decision was taken during multiple meetings of the First Appeal Committee held on December 29, 30 and 31, 2025, under Section 28(5) of the NMC Act, 2019. The newly approved seats cover a wide range of clinical and non-clinical specialties, including General Medicine, Radiodiagnosis, Dermatology (DVL), General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Orthopaedics, ENT, Ophthalmology, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology.
According to a public notice issued by MARB on January 6, 2026, the list of additional seats cleared by the appeal committee will be treated as a valid document for the counselling process. Counselling authorities have been directed not to wait for individual Letters of Permission (LOPs) from institutions, though the LOPs will be issued shortly.
Medical colleges from more than 20 states and Union Territories, including Maharashtra, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Manipur and Uttarakhand, have received approvals. Several institutions have been granted multiple seats across different departments, leading to a significant expansion in PG training capacity for the upcoming academic session.
High-demand specialties such as MD General Medicine, MD Radiodiagnosis, MS General Surgery and MD Dermatology account for a large share of the newly sanctioned seats. In many cases, colleges have seen a sharp increase in their total sanctioned intake, particularly in core clinical disciplines.
In a communication dated January 7, 2026, NMC Secretary Dr Raghav Langer informed all medical colleges, state medical education departments and counselling authorities to take note of the additional seats and ensure their immediate inclusion in the PG admissions process.
The move is expected to ease pressure during NEET-PG counselling, improve specialty-wise seat availability and strengthen postgraduate medical training infrastructure across the country for the 2025–26 academic cycle.
Commenting on the development, MARB President Dr M K Ramesh told The Times of India that PG seat approvals through the first appeal committee are cumulative and ongoing. “While earlier notices cited 171 and later 262 additional seats, the total cleared through appeals so far is around 450, with further additions possible,” he said.
