NMC has approved 4,201 new PG medical seats
NMC has approved 4,201 new PG medical seats in broad specialties for the academic year 2025–2026 in private medical colleges. From 3,123, the total number of postgraduate seats in private institutions has gone up to 7,324 with this permission.
In a notification, the MARB indicated the decision to stakeholders, noting that a consolidated list of newly approved and improved seats had been uploaded.
A separate circular was issued from the NMC Director regarding the MARB message wherein the institutions, students, and parents were informed to take note of the revised seat matrix. It was also clarified in the announcement that these additional seats belong to the category of Broad Specialties (BS) and are only for private medical schools for the coming academic year.
Letters of Permission for additional seats are being processed, MARB said. However, counseling authorities have been informed that the list on the NMC website will suffice for the counseling process, and they need not wait for LOPs.
The largest seats increase in:
- MS Orthopaedics: 355 seats
- MD Anaesthesiology: 318 seats
- MD Radio Diagnosis: 314 seats
- MD General Medicine: 283 seats
- MS Obstetrics and Gynaecology: 282 seats
Other additions include 296 seats in MD Paediatrics, 240 in MD Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, 238 in MS Ophthalmology, and 251 in MS General Surgery. Smaller allotments were given to courses like MD Family Medicine-2, MD Hospital Administration-4, MD Nuclear Medicine-8 and MD Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation-7.
Karnataka leads with 712 newly approved seats, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 613, Tamil Nadu with 418, Telangana with 353 and Madhya Pradesh with 368. The states having relatively minor additions are Tripura with 10, Pondicherry with 7 and Odisha with 43.
