Health Minister: There Is No Intention For Centralised NEET Counselling

The Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, addressed the Parliament today that there is currently no proposal for centralised counselling for medical students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programmes.

In response to a query from Kavitha Malothu, a member of parliament for the Mahbubabad seat, Mandaviya made the declaration. Malothu has inquired about if the "National Medical Commission (NMC) has proposed a centralised counselling system for UG and PG admissions in the medical colleges" with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

To this, the Health Minister replied that “there is no proposal for centralised counselling for undergraduate or postgraduate medical courses for the academic year 2023-24. No changes to the existing scheme of allocation of seats to various quotas have been made.”

For seats in undergraduate (UG/MBBS) and postgraduate (PG) medical programmes in India, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) supervises the counselling process. The NEET UG and NEET PG scores that candidates earn determine the counselling process.

According to information provided by the government, counselling for UG covers 100% of seats at all Institutes of National Importance (INI), 100% of seats at Central Institutes/Universities, and 15% of all India quota seats.

Similar to undergraduate programmes, counselling for graduate programmes covers 50% of All India Quota seats, 100% of seats at Central Institutes/Universities, and 100% of seats at Deemed Universities. The individual state governments undertake counselling for the state quota seats in undergraduate and graduate medical programmes.