PG Medical Counselling 2026: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has authorized an increase in postgraduate (PG) medical seats for the academic year 2025-26, following resolutions made by its First Appeal Committee, as stated in a public notice released on December 31, 2025. This approval follows challenges from medical colleges against previous decisions made by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) under Section 28(5) of the NMC Act, 2019.
The appeals were reviewed during meetings of the First Appeal Committee conducted on December 22 and 23, 2025, which resulted in the sanctioning of additional seats across various medical institutions and specialties.
In the public notice, the NMC specified that “the list of seats approved by the First Appeal Committee is attached herewith for the information of all stakeholders,” emphasizing that this list will act as a valid document for the counselling process.
Importantly, the Commission has directed counselling authorities to avoid delaying admissions due to procedural requirements. “The counselling authorities need not wait for the LOPs from institutions to include them in the counselling process,” the notice indicated, while confirming that Letters of Permission (LoPs) for these newly approved PG seats “will be issued shortly.”
The additional seats have been sanctioned across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including General Medicine, General Surgery, Anaesthesiology, Radiodiagnosis, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, and various pre- and para-clinical subjects. Medical colleges from numerous states and Union Territories, such as Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, and Arunachal Pradesh, are included in the approved list.
In a correspondence directed to the heads of medical colleges, NMC Secretary Dr. Raghav Langer indicated that the attached list “shall be regarded as a valid document for the counselling process,” emphasizing that institutions and counselling organizations should act in accordance with this directive.
The announcement has been disseminated to the medical education departments of both state and Union Territory, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), and all state counselling authorities to guarantee the prompt incorporation of the additional PG seats into the current admission process for the academic year 2025-26.
