NEET PG Counselling 2023: MCC reiterates eligibility criteria for stray vacancy round

NEW DELHI: The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has reiterated the eligibility criteria to participate in the stray vacancy round of National Eligibility Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET PG) counselling 2023. Accordingly, candidates who do not hold a seat in MCC or state counselling are eligible for this round.

Those applicants who are allotted a seat in the third round but do not take admissions are not eligible, MCC informed.

Referring to question number 37 in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) of the information bulletin, NMC said, “In this regard, all colleges/ candidates participating in PG Counselling 2023 are informed that the filter to weed out candidates joined through state counselling will be applied before Seat Processing of Stray Vacancy Round of PG Counselling 2023.”

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Candidates who have joined any seat through state counselling will not be able to participate in the stray vacancy round.

In view of the above, the eligibility to participate in Stray Vacancy Round of PG counselling 2023 is as:

Candidates who are not holding any seat in any of the previous rounds of counselling conducted by MCC or through state quota counselling are ‘eligible’ to participate in stray vacancy round. Candidates who are allotted in round 3 of PG counselling but do not join the allotted seat are ‘Not Eligible’ to participate in stray vacancy round.