As Health ministry lowers NEET PG cutoff percentile, NBE issues notice on candidature of PG medical aspirants, details here

Delhi: The National Board of Examinations (NBE) has informed the NEET PG candidates about their candidature for the counselling process after the reduction of the qualifying percentile for NEET PG 2023 admissions.

As per the notice, the result of NEET-PG 2023 was declared on 14th March 2023. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India vide letter No. U. 12021/07/2023-MEC (Pt-I) dated 20th September 2023 has reduced the qualifying percentile for NEET-PG 2023 to ‘Zero’ across all categories.

The candidates who became eligible after the reduction of the qualifying percentile, their candidature is purely provisional subject to fulfilment of eligibility criteria as mentioned in the NEET-PG 2023 Information Bulletin and verification of their Face ID/Biometric wherever required. Further, there is no change in the NEET-PG 2023 Rank as published on 14-03-2023.

NBE, in its notice, states that “The result of NEET-PG 2023 was declared on 14th March, 2023. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India vide letter No. U. 12021/07/2023-MEC (Pt-I) dated 20th September 2023 has reduced the qualifying percentile for NEET-PG 2023 to ‘Zero’ across all categories. Candidature is purely provisional subject to fulfillment of eligibility criteria as mentioned in the NEET-PG 2023 Information Bulletin and verification of their Face ID/Biometric wherever required. It may be noted that there is no change in the NEET-PG 2023 Rank as published on 14-03-2023”.

Recently Medical Dialogues team reported that the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has announced that fresh registration and choice filling for round 3 of PG Counselling will be opened again for candidates who have become eligible after the reduction of NEET PG cutoff percentile.

This decision has been taken because of the reduction of the qualifying percentile for PG Courses (Medical) for NEET PG Counselling 2023 to ‘ZERO’ across all categories by MoHFW. Candidates who have become freshly eligible can register and participate in round 3 of counselling. The candidates who are already registered need not register again. However, they will be allowed to edit their choices. A fresh schedule for round 3 onwards for PG Counselling will be put up on the MCC website soon.

To view the notice, click on the link below –

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/natboard-datapublicnoticenotice202309201068-220436.pdf