Salient Points regarding Changes in NEET PG Counseling

10-Jan-2022

Author: Anubhav Garg

Urgent Attention Candidates/Institutions of NEET-PG: The Counselling for NEET-PG is scheduled to commence from 12/01/2022. However, the following changes/modifications in the counselling scheme will be implemented from the academic year 2021-22:
S.No.	NEET-PG Counselling up to 2020	NEET-PG Counselling 2021 onwards
1.	2 rounds of AIQ counselling ·AIQ Round 1 ·AIQ Round 2 Seats reverted back to the respective States after completion of round 2 of AIQ.	4 rounds of AIQ counselling ·AIQ Round 1 ·AIQ Round 2 ·AIQ Mop-up Round ·AIQ Stray Vacancy Round No seat will be reverted back to the respective States after completion of round 2 of AIQ.
2.	Unfilled NRI/Muslim Minority/Jain Minority seats are reverted to the Deemed Universities after completion of Mop-Up Round for conduction of Stray Vacancy Round by Deemed Universities.	Unfilled NRI/Muslim Minority/Jain Minority seats to be converted to Indian National seats after exhaustion of all the eligible NRI/Muslim Minority/Jain Minority Candidates during the Mop-Up Round before reverting it back to the respective Deemed University.
3.	Reservation Policy of AIQ: Ø S.C.- 15% Ø S.T.- 7.5% Ø O.B.C.- (Non-Creamy Layer) as per the Central OBC list- 27% (Only in Central Institutes/University)	Reservation Policy of AIQ for Central Institutes/University as well as State contributed seats: Ø S.C.- 15% Ø S.T.- 7.5% Ø O.B.C.- (Non-Creamy Layer) as per the Central OBC list- 27%
	Ø EWS- as per Central Government norms- 10% (Only in Central Institutes/Universit y) Ø PwD- Horizontal Reservation as per NMC norms- 5%	Ø EWS- as per Central Government norms- 10% Ø PwD- Horizontal Reservation as per NMC norms- 5%
4.	Counselling for PG DNB seats was not conducted by MCC of DGHS, MoHFW.	Counselling for PG DNB seats to be conducted by MCC of DGHS, MoHFW.
5.	Offline Stray vacancy round conducted by the respective Central University/Institutes	Online Stray vacancy Round to be conducted by MCC of DGHS, MoHFW for Central University/Institutes/All India Quota/DNB seats.