The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is expected to release the NEET PG 2024 counselling schedule in the coming days. Candidates who qualified for NEET PG 2024 will be able to view the counselling timetable on the official website, mcc.nic.in, once it is announced.
Steps to Apply for NEET PG Counselling 2024
The counselling schedule, to be issued in PDF format, will detail important dates for registration, choice-filling, seat allotment rounds, and the deadlines for reporting to allotted institutes. Based on previous years, NEET PG counselling 2024 is likely to take place in four phases: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, and the AIQ Stray Vacancy Round.
The NEET PG 2024 counselling process allows qualified candidates to secure admission into Doctor of Medicine (MD), Master of Surgery (MS), Diplomate of National Board (DNB), and postgraduate diploma programmes through All India Quota (AIQ) seats.
On September 20, MCC initiated the registration process for the first round of postgraduate medical counselling, but the final schedule and the deadline for registration have yet to be confirmed.
In a related development, the Supreme Court will hear a petition concerning the NEET PG exam on October 25. Candidates have raised concerns over the exam's transparency and have requested that the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) issue the answer keys, response sheets, and raw scores. They also expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of information on the cut-off and the newly introduced normalisation process.
According to a Ministry of Health and Family Welfare report, the number of NEET PG seats has surged from 31,185 in 2014 to 70,645 today. Candidates qualifying for All India Quota (AIQ) seats based on their NEET PG rank will be eligible for 50% of the AIQ seats in Central Universities.