THE National Medical Commission (NMC) has approved 15 additional seats of postgraduate at clinical branches of two private medical colleges across Chhattisgarh, one at Raipur and another in Bhilainagar. With the addition of these 15 seats, the number of postgraduate (PG) medical seats at medical colleges in Chhattisgarh has now increased to more than 600. In first week of 2026, NMC, regulatory body of medical education and research, has approved 529 PG medical seats in 30 medical colleges of the country including 15 seats in two private medical colleges of State.

 

Before the counselling of NEETPG 2025, NMC had approved over 4,000 PG seats at various clinical and non-clinical branches in October 2025. That time, Chhattisgarh Medical Education has also witnessed 85 new PG seats, 18 in CIMS Bilaspur and remaining in three private medical colleges of the state, maximum 44 in private medical college of Bhilainagar, 18 in one private medical college of capital and 5 in other medical college of Raipur.

 

With the expansion of postgraduate medical seats, NEET-PG qualifiers will not require to take admission at pg medical courses in medical colleges of other states. But the problem is that, this year NMC had approved maximum pg medical seats in private medical colleges and many of poor as well as rural students did not much benefit from these additional seats of medical science in postgraduate level.