NMC approves 50 additional MBBS seats at GMC Agartala
Agartala: To boost medical education in Tripura, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has approved an increase of 50 additional MBBS at Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) for the academic year 2026-27.
The college currently has an intake of 150 MBBS seats. With the addition of 50 seats, its total MBBS intake has now increased to 200, as per the updated undergraduate seat matrix issued by the NMC's Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB).
The officials told UNI that the increase will provide more opportunities to aspiring medical students in Tripura to pursue their MBBS education within the state, contributing to the growing medical education capacity in the region.
Meanwhile, the other two medical colleges in the state, including Tripura Medical College and Tripura Santiniketan Medical College, each have an intake of 150 MBBS seats. This brings the combined MBBS seat capacity of the three medical colleges in Tripura to 500.
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The NMC's revised seat matrix, published on September 9 based on approvals available up to September 1, included the increase in the sanctioned MBBS intake of AGMC.
Medical Dialogues had reported that altogether 1,40,214 MBBS seats are available in India for the academic year 2026-2027, according to the seat matrix released by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) on September 9, 2026. The latest seat matrix showed that 1,27,028 MBBS seats were renewed, while 13,186 seats were increased across 836 medical colleges in the country.
As per the latest figures, Assam has the highest MBBS seat capacity among the northeastern states at 1,975 seats, followed by Manipur with 550 seats, Tripura with 500, Meghalaya with 250, Sikkim with 200, and Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland with 100 seats each.
