NEW DELHI: Seventy-five postgraduate medical candidates allotted seats across 72 institutes are facing uncertainty over their admissions after the institutions failed to complete mandatory reporting on the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) portal, prompting the regulator to reopen the Round 1 reporting window for one final day.In a notice issued on Thursday, MCC said the institutes had failed to complete admission reporting despite repeated emails and phone calls. It warned that any admission not submitted on the portal by the college authorities would be treated as “Null & Void”. Candidates whose admissions remain unreported will be considered “Not Reported”, and their seats will automatically become available for allotment in the next counselling round.Explaining the reasons behind the pendency, a senior health ministry official said the problem was a combination of errors in document uploads by candidates and delays in verification by institutes. Some candidates had uploaded unclear or illegible certificates, which were returned for correction, but the revised documents were not uploaded. Several institutes, meanwhile, failed to complete verification or resolve discrepancies in time.“Smaller DNB institutes, which often lack dedicated administrative staff, have faced particular difficulty with the online process. Document-upload errors by candidates and incomplete verification by institutes have left around 72 institutions affected out of a total of 1,600-1,700. We have given them a final one-day window to complete the process and expect the pending cases to be resolved by tomorrow, allowing candidates to be accommodated and Round 2 counselling to proceed,” official said.The official said that while medical colleges participating in MBBS counselling were familiar with online processes, several smaller DNB institutions lacked a structured administrative setup. In some cases, doctors involved in patient care were also handling document verification, while the work was assigned to clerical or data-entry staff.
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As a one-time measure, MCC will reopen the Round 1 reporting portal on November 13 from 9.30 am to 11 pm. Institutes that have not reported candidates have been directed to complete the admission process within the stipulated window. Candidates have also been asked to ensure that their online admission letters have been generated by the respective institutes.The list includes institutions such as Grant Medical College, Mumbai; ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Ahmedabad; Santosh Medical College, Ghaziabad; Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry; Shroff Eye Centre, Delhi; Medanta Super Speciality Hospital, Indore; and Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences.MCC has cautioned that any adverse consequences arising from non-compliance will be the sole responsibility of the institute or candidate.
