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NEET-PG cutoffs slashed to fill seats
Mint Hyderabad
|January 15, 2026
With over 18,000 postgraduate medical seats vacant and hospitals facing a shortage of specialists, the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has moved to prevent a costly waste of training capacity.
After the second round of NEET-PG 2025 counselling for seats sought by qualified doctors, the regulator "significantly" lowered the cutoff marks to ensure that thousands of seats across 541 government and private medical colleges are filled, acc
This story is from the January 15, 2026 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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