NEET-PG 2022 counselling to begin on September 1

The Ministry of Health will begin counselling for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (Postgraduate) on September 1, according to reports.

The result of the NEET PG written examination was announced on June 1.

The roster for the two-month counselling session will be released soon.

The PG counselling will commence for all central universities, deemed universities and 50% of all India quota seats and 50 per cent of state quota seats of medical and dental colleges simultaneously, officials told PTI.

Students who have qualified in the NEET-PG 2022 exam will be able to fill their choices with respect to courses and colleges during the counselling process for admission to All India Quota seats, state medical and dental colleges, and central and deemed universities.

The NEET Counselling, for UG and PG, is conducted by the Medical Counseling Committee, MCC, which has been entrusted by the Supreme Court to carry out the counselling process.

A total of 1,456 seats for NEET PG 2021 still remain vacant. The MCC conducted five rounds of counselling for PG seats for the academic year 2021, including a special round of counselling.

Keeping this in mind, the government has decided to conduct a special round of counselling without any cut-off percentile eligibility to prevent wastage of seats and in the larger public interest as a one-time measure, the officials said.

The special mop-up round II for NEET-SS 2021 counselling will begin on Tuesday.

Usually, NEET-PG is held in January and the counseling starts in March, but the pandemic delayed the process this year.