Overview
- A bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra rejected a PIL challenging NBEMS’s decision to allow eligibility at a zero percentile with a score of minus 40 for reserved categories.
- The court noted that the Delhi High Court had already dismissed a similar plea and that a related petition remains pending before the Supreme Court.
- NBEMS reduced thresholds after over 18,000 postgraduate medical seats remained vacant post Round 2, setting revised cut-offs at the 7th percentile (score 103) for general and the 5th percentile (score 90) for general-PwBD.
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu account for the largest pools of vacancies, each with more than 2,000 seats unfilled in private, management, and NRI quotas.
- Round 3 counselling is underway, with the Medical Counselling Committee scheduled to publish seat allotment results on January 29, 2026, as debate continues over high fees and other structural factors driving vacancies.