NMC streamlines Medical Admissions: State Counselling Committees to now enter data on available seats, not medical colleges

"In view of above, for improving transparency in seat reporting and making the counselling process for admission against medical seats more streamlined and efficient, it has been decided by the competent authority that from academic year 2024-25, the feeding of data in seat matrix will be done by each state counselling committee (SCC) along with MCC, DGHS instead of feeding by the colleges/ universities. The college/university authorities will no longer be allowed to enter data regarding number of available medical seats for admission," NMC further mentioned.

Asking the SCCs to nominate a nodal officer for this purpose, the Commission added, "Furthermore, each State counselling committee will also nominate a nodal officer for feeding such data. Such nodal officer will be personally responsible for correctness of data fed into system."

A copy of the letter has also been sent to the ADG, Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

To view the NMC communication, click on the link below:

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/nmc-counselling-218544.pdf

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that as per the Graduate Medical Education Regulations 2023, which was notified in the official Gazette of India on June 02, 2023, by NMC, there shall be a common counselling for admission to graduate courses in medicine for all Medical Institutions in India based on the merit list of the NEET-UG.

"Counselling shall entirely be based on the seat matrix provided by National Medical Commission; Provided the common counseling may have multiple rounds as may be necessary," it added.

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