Tag: Chhattisgarh

  • Chhattisgarh warns that a seat allotment is not an admission

    The State Counselling Committee at the Directorate of Medical Education has issued a press note explaining how allotment, document verification and admission fit together in Chhattisgarh’s NEET UG 2026 state counselling.

    The central point

    Being on the merit list, or even being allotted a seat at an institution, does not make your admission final. Under Rule 7 of the Chhattisgarh Medical, Dental and Physiotherapy Graduate Admission Rules 2025, the online counselling process covers registration, setting the order of preference, allotment, scrutiny of original documents, and admission. All five, not the first three.

    The admission process is treated as complete only after the candidate produces the required original documents and is found eligible on scrutiny.

    What gets checked

    During the eligibility examination the committee verifies the domicile certificate, the category or cadre certificate, and the other documents required under the rules. The note is direct about the consequence: incomplete documents, a missing required certificate, or incorrect information can leave a candidate ineligible for admission.

    It also points to Rule 12, under which an admission obtained by giving false or incorrect information, or by concealing relevant facts, is open to action, as is an admission later found to have been obtained through an error or omission.

    Where the dates will appear

    A separate timetable for document scrutiny and admission will be published on the Directorate’s website, cgdme.in. Candidates are told to watch for it and to appear at the concerned institution or admission centre at the prescribed time with all their original documents.

    On rumours

    The committee asks candidates not to act on rumours, confusion or misleading information about the counselling. Queries and complaints should go through the “Candidates Grievances and Query Redressal System” available under Candidate Login on the official counselling portal, or by email to the counselling branch at cgdme.counseling@gmail.com.

    That is worth taking literally. In a week when almost every state has revised its schedule, second-hand dates circulating on social media are more likely to be wrong than right.

    Our Chhattisgarh cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category.

    Source: State Counselling Committee, Directorate of Medical Education, Chhattisgarh, press note on allotment, document scrutiny and the admission process for NEET UG 2026 state counselling, approved by the Commissioner, Medical Education.

  • Chhattisgarh NEET UG 2026 Round 1 counselling is open

    Round 1 of the Directorate of Medical Education (DME), Chhattisgarh NEET UG 2026 state-quota counselling for MBBS and BDS is now open. Online registration, fee payment and choice filling started on 9 August 2026 at 11:00 AM on cgmcc.admissions.nic.in.

    Round 1 schedule (tentative)

    • Online registration and fee payment: 9 August to 16 August 2026.
    • Choice filling and locking: 9 August to 17 August 2026.
    • Merit list and NRI eligible list: 18 August 2026.
    • Seat allotment: 19 August 2026. Result: 20 August 2026.
    • Scrutiny and admission at the allotted institute: 21 August to 27 August 2026.

    Registration fee

    • General / OBC: ₹1,000. SC / ST: ₹500. NRI: ₹10,000. The fee is non-refundable.
    • Security / registration deposit money is shown in the official seat-matrix document.

    NRI candidates: document deadline extended

    • The last date to submit NRI eligibility documents is extended to 16 August 2026, 5:00 PM (earlier 13 August).
    • Email all original NRI documents as a single colour-scanned, readable PDF to the revised address cgneetugnri2026@gmail.com (this replaces cgneetugnri@gmail.com), with cgdme.counseling@gmail.com in CC.
    • Black-and-white or illegible scans will not be accepted.

    Seats on offer

    The Round 1 seat matrix covers 21 MBBS colleges (about 2,875 seats) and 6 BDS colleges across the state, including Pt. JNM Medical College, Raipur, CIMS Bilaspur and the government colleges at Rajnandgaon, Jagdalpur, Ambikapur, Raigarh, Kanker, Korba, Mahasamund and Durg, along with private medical and dental colleges. Seats are set aside for the 15% All India Quota and a 3% central pool; the rest fill through state-quota counselling on a 200-point reservation roster.

    Before you lock choices, see the full list of Chhattisgarh medical colleges, check last year’s MBBS closing ranks and BDS closing ranks, and use our college predictor to find seats that fit your rank. Our Chhattisgarh counselling guide explains the process.

    What to do now

    • Register and pay the fee on cgmcc.admissions.nic.in between 9 and 16 August.
    • Fill your choices in order of preference and lock them by 17 August.
    • NRI candidates: email your colour-scanned documents to cgneetugnri2026@gmail.com (CC cgdme.counseling@gmail.com) by 16 August, 5:00 PM.
    • Keep your domicile, category and NEET UG 2026 documents ready for scrutiny at the allotted college.

    Official links

    Source: Directorate of Medical Education, Chhattisgarh — Round 1 counselling notice (No. 1368, 7 August 2026), schedule, seat matrix, and revised NRI document notice (cgdme.admissions.nic.in / cgmcc.admissions.nic.in).

  • Chhattisgarh gets 5 new government medical colleges: 250 more MBBS seats from 2026-27

    Chhattisgarh will add 250 MBBS seats from the 2026-27 session after the National Medical Commission (NMC) cleared five new government medical colleges in the state. Each college gets 50 seats.

    The five colleges are in Kabirdham (Kawardha), Janjgir-Champa, Manendragarh, Geedam in Dantewada, and Kunkuri in Jashpur. The clearance came from the NMC’s Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) on 13 July 2026.

    With these additions, the number of government medical colleges in Chhattisgarh rises from 10 to 15, and government MBBS seats go from 1,430 to 1,680. Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai said the colleges will widen access to medical education and improve healthcare in the state’s rural and remote districts.

    Approved on the second attempt

    The clearance follows an earlier setback. On 13 June 2026 the NMC had rejected all five applications, citing deficiencies in buildings and laboratories, shortage of teaching staff, missing affiliation from the state Health Sciences University, and administrative appointments that existed only on paper. The state government said it would fix the gaps and appeal. The July approval came after those deficiencies were addressed.

    JNM Raipur also gets 20 more seats

    Separately, the NMC’s rating board raised the MBBS intake at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial (JNM) Medical College, Raipur, from 230 to 250 seats, also effective 2026-27. That is 20 seats on top of the 250 from the five new colleges.

    What it means for NEET aspirants

    More government seats give Chhattisgarh candidates additional lower-fee options in state counselling. These are new colleges in their first year, so their cutoffs cannot be compared with established institutions yet; first-year closing ranks usually settle over the opening rounds. You can track the state’s current government and private closing ranks on the Chhattisgarh NEET cutoffs page, and see where your score places you with the NEET rank predictor. neet2seat will publish college-wise cutoffs for these new seats once the 2026 Chhattisgarh counselling data is released.

    Source: National Medical Commission approvals as reported on 13 July 2026 (Amar Ujala, APAC News Network, The Sootr), with the June 2026 rejection reported by Medical Dialogues. State seat totals as reported by Medical Dialogues.