India, Oct. 20 -- Around 35% of postgraduate (PG) seats in private and minority medical colleges, which were earlier largely available to students from Maharashtra, will now be open to candidates from across India and abroad. The newly notified rules for these institutional quota seats, as stated by the Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell in its admission brochure for 2026-27 on Monday, have upset students aspiring to secure admission to the MD and MS courses.

According to the new rules, all seats under the institutional and NRI quotas will now be filled through a centralised Maharashtra State NEET PG online 2026 counselling process. The entire procedure will be managed by the Maharashtra CET Cell, ensuring that individual ...