The Directorate of Higher and Technical Education published Arunachal Pradesh’s first round PCB allotment on 27 August. 291 candidates were allotted a seat, 111 of them in MBBS or BDS. The date that matters more than the allotment itself is 2 September.
Miss 2 September and you lose round 2 as well
The circular is blunt about this. A candidate allotted a seat in round 1 who fails to submit a Freeze or Float willingness, and a candidate who chooses Freeze but does not report by 4 pm on 2 September 2026, is treated as not interested. The allotment is cancelled automatically, and the candidate is not eligible for round 2.
Freeze candidates in MBBS, BDS and the other health-science courses report to the Directorate of Medical Education, A Sector, behind Lenskart, Naharlagun. Candidates who choose Float wait for the round 2 allotment and do nothing else.
Log in at apjee.co.in to complete the reporting process.
The revised schedule
| Stage | Date |
|---|---|
| First round of seat allotment | 27 August 2026 |
| Online and physical reporting | 28 August to 2 September 2026 |
| Second round of seat allotment | 4 September 2026 |
| Online and physical reporting | 5 to 8 September 2026 |
| Online withdrawal of seat | 9 September 2026 |
| Spot round registration (tentative) | 9 to 10 September 2026 |
| Spot round, if conducted | 11 September 2026 |
111 medical seats, and most colleges are outside the state
Arunachal has one medical college, so the state holds nomination seats elsewhere. The allotment reflects that.
| Course and college | State | Seats | Best AIR | Closing AIR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBBS, Tomo Riba Institute (TRIHMS), Naharlagun | Arunachal Pradesh | 85 | 18,036 | 952,156 |
| MBBS, RIMS Imphal | Manipur | 9 | 33,950 | 102,050 |
| MBBS, Pt JNM Medical College, Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 2 | 25,626 | 96,115 |
| MBBS, Lakhiram Agarwal Memorial GMC, Raigarh | Chhattisgarh | 2 | 107,362 | 114,961 |
| MBBS, Agartala Govt Medical College | Tripura | 2 | 109,573 | 120,849 |
| BDS, RIMS Imphal | Manipur | 4 | 181,518 | 214,023 |
| BDS, Regional Dental College | Assam | 3 | 181,214 | 211,664 |
| BDS, Dr R. Ahmed Dental College, Kolkata | West Bengal | 2 | 45,931 | 179,954 |
| BDS, KG Dental College, Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 179,766 | 179,766 |
| BDS, Govt Dental College, Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 1 | 197,423 | 197,423 |
These are NEET All India Ranks, printed in the allotment list itself, so they compare directly against your own rank.
APST and non-APST are two different competitions
Of the 814 candidates on the list, 794 are APST and 20 are non-APST. Of the 291 allotments, 286 went to APST candidates and 5 to non-APST candidates. Among those five: one MBBS seat at Raipur, one BDS seat at Kolkata, and three B.Sc Nursing seats.
The gap this produces is the most useful thing in the document. A non-APST candidate at AIR 29,391 was recorded as having no option available. An APST candidate at AIR 952,156 holds an MBBS seat at TRIHMS. If you are not APST, Arunachal is close to a closed state for medical seats, and you should plan on that basis rather than on the headline closing rank.
523 candidates got nothing this round
The list records “No Option available” against 523 of the 814 names, 508 of them APST. The phrase is the state’s own, and it sits where a college name would go. Those candidates stay in the process for the 4 September round.
Among the 111 MBBS and BDS allotments, 72 were the candidate’s first choice and 20 the second, so this round has been kinder on choice order than most state rounds.
What to carry to reporting
Two self-attested photocopy sets with the originals, and three passport photographs. The circular lists the filled scrutiny form from apdhte.nic.in, the downloaded provisional allotment letter, the Class X pass certificate for age, the Class XII marksheet, the NEET 2026 score card, a PWD certificate where it applies, the security deposit or seat acceptance fee receipt, the school leaving or transfer certificate, the migration certificate and a medical fitness certificate.
On category proof: APST candidates bring an APST certificate. Non-APST candidates bring either an employment certificate from a government employer, or a domicile certificate covering at least three years issued by a First Class Magistrate during 2026, and in that case must also have passed Class XII from an institution inside Arunachal Pradesh.
Our Arunachal cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category from earlier years, and the predictor works from your NEET rank. We covered the added seats and reopened choice filling earlier this month.
Source: Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Directorate of Higher and Technical Education, Itanagar. Circular No. HTE-18/1/2026-HTE-BR-HTE dated 27 August 2026, and the PCB Group Allotment of 1st Round Counselling dated 27-08-2026. Figures here were computed by parsing all 814 rows of the allotment list.