Health Bulletin 12/February/2026 - Video

"The Government reduced the qualifying percentile for eligibility to NEET PG Counselling 2025 to ensure precious PG medical seats do not remain vacant," the MoS Health recently stated in the Parliament.

The Health minister was asked to answer whether it is a fact that Government has decided to reduce the cut off for NEET PG 2025 to zero percentage level on the ground that thousands of seats in medical colleges lying vacant; the number of vacant seats in Government medical colleges and private medical colleges separately and also whether it is a fact that majority of seats are vacant in private medical colleges where the fees run into crores which most candidates cannot afford.

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NEET PG 2025 qualifying percentile reduced to prevent vacant seats: MoS Health tells Parliament

The release of the NEET PG third-round counselling allotments has sparked a nationwide debate, as candidates with negative and single-digit scores secured postgraduate seats in government medical colleges. Medical professionals across the nation have raised concerns that such low marks indicate poor basic medical knowledge and fear that their admission could compromise specialist training and patient safety.

At a time when doctors are already worried that the minimum qualifying standards for NEET-PG have been reduced too much, the fact that candidates with extremely low and even negative scores are getting MD and MS seats in reputed medical colleges has further increased their concerns about the future of medical education in India.

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Negative, single digit scorers allotted MD, MS seats! Doctors decry NEET PG 2025 cutoff

The Supreme Court of India has ordered the Jharkhand government and Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, to pay the pending stipend to Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) who had completed their internship earlier but were not given the same benefit as their juniors.

Noting that foreign medical graduates are liable to get a stipend at par with Indian medical graduates, the division bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Prasanna B. Varale ordered the stipend to be paid within 2 weeks.

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Supreme Court orders stipend to FMGs on par with Indian MBBS graduates

Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday approved a proposal to double the salaries of contractual AYUSH doctors working under the National Health Mission (NHM) in Odisha, a statement said.

According to a recent PTI report, the hike ranges from Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 per month, depending on their period of service, said the statement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO). Doctors with less than five years of experience will get a hike of Rs 20,000, and the basic salary will now become Rs 56,948, it said.

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Odisha CM approves two-fold salary hike for contractual AYUSH doctors