Weed out already joined round 3 NEET counselling candidates: MCC tells state authorities

The instruction follows the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, which mandates the filtering out of joined AIQ candidates to prevent dual seat allotments.

“As per directions of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Contempt Petition© No. 289 of 2022 in W.P No. 223 of 2022 Shubhankar Patnaik Vs. K. Ramesh Reddy & Ors., the filtering out of joined All India Quota candidates is mandatory in NEET UG Counselling”, the notice stated.

Through the notice, the MCC has also clarified that the result of Round-3 of UG Counselling 2025 conducted by MCC has already been published and there is no provision of resignation in this round. "Hence, all state counselling authorities are requested to weed out the joined candidates of AIQ Round-3 before seat processing of Round-3 of state counselling, so that candidates already holding a seat in AIQ are not allotted any seat through state counselling," the notice read.

Meanwhile, state counselling authorities can download the list of joined candidates from the data sharing portal of MCC after 1st November 2025.

To view the notice, click the link below

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/mcc-directs-states-to-exclude-joined-aiq-round-3-candidates-from-neet-ug-2025-state-counselling-as-per-supreme-court-orders-306005.pdf

Medical Dialogues has earlier reported that, as per the revised schedule, the NEET UG round 3 counselling 2025 for the state counselling will now take place till 3rd November 2025. Following this, the verification of the joined candidates' data by the states will be done on 9th November 2025. After this, the last date of joining is now fixed till 8th November 2025. Below is the detailed schedule-

REVISED SCHEDULE