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The State Common Entrance Test Cell published the provisional selection list for CAP Round 1 on 30 August. If your name carries a college against it, the date that matters is 4 September 2026, 5.30 pm. Both the joining at the college and the Status Retention Form are due by then.

What the list actually contains

The document runs to 896 pages and lists 31,047 candidates, which is everyone who filled choices, not everyone who got a seat. Of those, 10,509 have been allotted a seat. The remaining 20,538 rows read “Choice Not Available”, meaning none of the colleges that candidate filled reached their rank in this round.

So a little over one in three candidates on the list has a seat after Round 1. Being in the larger group is not a rejection. It means your filled choices did not come to you at this rank in this round, and the later rounds are where that changes.

The seats went to 93 colleges: 65 medical colleges taking 8,065 candidates, and 28 dental colleges taking 2,444.

Where the seats went

All ranks here are NEET All India Ranks. Maharashtra prints the AIR on the selection list itself, so nothing needs converting.

Roughly where Round 1 closed

A closing rank is only readable if you hold the seat type steady. The figures below cover open-category seats with no additional quota attached, so no women’s, hilly area, PwD, defence, orphan or earmarked seats are mixed in. Those seats close at very different ranks and would distort the picture.

• Government MBBS, open category: the last such seat went at AIR 47,413. Half of these seats went to ranks better than 18,832.
• Private MBBS, open category: last seat at AIR 1,14,441, median 68,015.
• Government BDS, open category: last seat at AIR 99,701.
• Private BDS, open category: last seat at AIR 4,09,799.

At the sharp end, G. S. Medical College Mumbai closed its open-category seats at AIR 1,796, L. T. Medical College at 4,886 and Grant Medical College at 6,376.

Reserved categories close later, and by a wide margin in places. Counting government MBBS seats the same way, with no additional quota attached, OBC ran to 52,299 and SEBC to 52,137, while SC ran to 1,43,965 and ST to 3,13,452. Treat all of these as Round 1 positions rather than final cutoffs. They move in every later round.

About 160 seats did not fill

The revised Round 1 seat matrix put 11,675 seats across those 93 colleges, of which 1,006 are the All India Quota surrendered to MCC. That leaves 10,669 on the state side against 10,509 allotments, so about 160 state-side seats went unfilled in Round 1 and carry forward. No college was allotted more seats than it had.

The list is provisional, and the deadline is not

The Cell states this plainly in its own notes on the document. The admitting institute will verify your original documents and check eligibility against the NEET UG 2026 brochure, and the admission is confirmed only after that. Two consequences follow.

First, an allotment is not an admission. If your documents do not support the claim you made at registration, whether that is a category, a domicile or a reservation, the seat does not survive verification.

Second, the notice is direct about the deadline: submit the original documents as per your claim and pay the fees at the selected college within the stipulated time, failing which the selection stands cancelled. There is no separate grace window mentioned.

The Status Retention Form is filled at the college by the same 4 September deadline. If you intend to stay in the process for a better seat in a later round rather than settling here, that form is the mechanism, and missing it is not a neutral act.

If you did not get a seat

Nothing on this list ends your candidature. The unfilled seats plus everything vacated by candidates who upgrade or drop out form the pool for the next round. What is worth doing now is checking how far your filled choices sat from where Round 1 actually closed, because a preference list built on last year’s expectations is the most common reason a rank that could have reached a college did not.

Official links

• CAP Round 1 provisional selection list, MBBS and BDS (PDF)
• Revised Round 1 seat matrix, Group A (PDF)
• Notice No. 12, choice filling and revised merit list (PDF)
• MahaCET NEET UG 2026 portal

Our Maharashtra cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats a given rank reaches. We also covered the court-ordered revision to the final merit list and Notice 11 and the revised seat matrix, including the three colleges sitting out the first round.

Source: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra, “Provisional Selection List only for MBBS/BDS Courses, CAP Round 1”, printed 30/08/2026, read together with the revised Round 1 seat matrix (Group A) dated 25/08/2026. Counts and ranks in this article are aggregates computed from those documents. The selection list carries candidate names, roll numbers and form numbers; no individual row is reproduced here.

The State Common Entrance Test Cell has issued Notice No. 12, and it changes something most candidates would assume was settled: the final merit list for MBBS and BDS is going to be revised.

Why the list is changing

The NTA had withheld the results of some candidates. The Bombay High Court and the Delhi High Court, in recent orders, directed that the results of the petitioner candidates be declared and that they be allowed to take part in the ongoing CAP process. The courts directed that those results be shared by 27 August 2026.

Once the results reach the CET Cell, those candidates enter the process. In the Cell’s own words, this “will alter the Final Merit list”, and a revised final merit list will be published on the website.

If candidates are inserted above you, your position moves down. How much depends on how many there are and where they land, and neither is known yet.

You can still change your choices, until 29 August

This is the part to act on. The preference form can be edited any number of times until 29 August 2026 at 5.30 pm, by unlocking it with an OTP sent to your registered email and mobile.

The Cell makes the point explicitly: candidates can edit their choices after the revised merit list is declared, if they wish. So if you have already locked your form, do not treat it as finished. Look at the revised list when it appears, then decide whether your order still makes sense.

The choice-filling rules worth re-reading

• You may fill a minimum of one and a maximum of all colleges.
• Private colleges appear twice, under State Quota and Institute Quota, and the fees differ. Selecting the wrong one is selecting a different price for the same college, so check the quota on every private entry.
• Some colleges run both MBBS and BDS. Verify the course on each choice before submitting.
• Order the list by genuine preference, most wanted at the top. Allotment follows your order.
• Lock the form when done. The last saved or locked set of preferences is what goes to allotment.
• If you never lock it, the last filled preferences are auto-saved at the end of the schedule. Nothing changes after that.

One more clause deserves attention. The Cell states that if choices are edited or filled wrongly through your login, it is treated as filled by you, and the office is not responsible for any loss. If someone else is filling the form on your behalf, that risk sits with you.

234 candidates are on the not-qualified list

Alongside the merit list, the Cell published a list of candidates not qualified for NEET UG 2026, running to 234 names. It is a separate document from the merit list, and being on it means you are outside this process rather than low in it.

A note on what “final” means here

The document published on 26 August is titled the Round 1 Final Merit List of registered candidates. Its own disclaimer, however, describes it as the provisional merit list, based on information given in the registration form and e-verification of uploaded documents, with admission taking place only after original certificates are verified at the admitting college.

Read together with Notice 12, the position is straightforward: treat the list published on 26 August as a working position, not a settled one, and check the revised list when it is put up.

Our Maharashtra cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats your rank reaches. We also covered Notice 11 and the revised seat matrix, including the three colleges that are sitting out the first round.

Sources: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra, Notice No. 12, ref. MED-1026/CR.No.83/UG-2026/MBBS-BDS/Choice filling/2107, dated 26/08/2026; the List of Not Qualified candidates of NEET-UG-2026 dated 26/08/2026, counted at 234 entries; and the Round 1 Final Merit List of registered candidates, Group A. Candidate names in those lists are not reproduced here.

The State Common Entrance Test Cell has issued Notice No. 11 along with a revised Group A seat matrix, both dated 25 August. Together they change which colleges you can choose in the first round, and what happens at three of them afterwards.

Three colleges will not be in the first round

The Medical Education and Drugs Department has informed the CET Cell that three private colleges have started the process of establishing themselves as private universities:

• Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation’s Medical College, Ahilyanagar
• N.K.P. Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur
• Ranjit Deshmukh Dental College and Research Centre, Nagpur

All three will not participate in the first admission round. They join a later round once the formalities for their private universities are complete. We checked the revised seat matrix against the notice, and all three are indeed absent from it.

What changes once they become private universities

This is the part that outlasts the round. Under Clause 9.3 of the NEET UG 2026 Information Brochure, three provisions then apply to these colleges:

1. 40 per cent of institutional seats are reserved for candidates holding a Maharashtra Domicile Certificate.
2. Fees are set by the Fee Fixation Committee constituted by the private university itself, rather than the arrangement that governs them today.
3. Candidates admitted to these colleges are not eligible for any government scholarship or fee reimbursement scheme.

The third point is the one to weigh carefully. If you were counting on a state scholarship or fee reimbursement to make a private seat affordable, that support does not follow you to a college once it converts. Work out the cost without it before you rank one of these three in a later round.

The revised seat matrix

The Group A matrix published the same day covers 11,675 seats across 93 colleges. Its own printed totals reconcile exactly with the college-by-college figures, which is a good sign for a document revised mid-counselling.

That is 9,099 MBBS seats and 2,576 BDS seats. Of the government MBBS intake, 950 seats go to the All India Quota and are allotted by the MCC rather than the state.

Note that intake capacity is not the same as the number of seats the state will allot to you. The AIQ share, and the institutional and minority quotas at private colleges, come out of these figures.

The final merit list is due on 26 August

The CET Cell website carries a notice that the final merit list for MBBS and BDS will be published on 26 August 2026. That is the list the first round allotment runs from.

Our Maharashtra cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats your rank reaches.

Sources: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra, Notice No. 11, ref. MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026, dated 25/08/2026, signed by the Commissioner; and the Provisional Seat Matrix for MBBS/BDS Courses, Group A, printed 25/08/2026. Seat figures were computed by parsing all 93 college blocks of the matrix and reconcile exactly with its printed section totals. The 26 August merit list date is from the notice carried on the CET Cell website.

The State CET Cell has issued Notice No. 10 revising the CAP schedule for MBBS and BDS admission, after the Medical Counselling Committee extended All India Quota counselling on 19 August. Registration reopens for a single 24-hour window.

The windows, and they are not the same

Three things that will cost people seats

The grievance window closes before registration opens. If your name is on the provisional merit list of 18 August and something on it is wrong, you have until 5 pm on 20 August. The notice is explicit that these candidates “will not be given opportunity to raise grievance at a later stage”.

Registration is not complete until the fee is paid. The notice states a candidate is treated as registered “only after successful payment of the fees”. Registering at 7.55 pm on 21 August and paying later does not count, though the payment window does run two hours longer than the registration window for those who registered earlier and did not pay.

You must click submit after uploading. Candidates who fail to upload and submit any requisite document will not be considered for the process or for the category they claimed. Uploading is not submitting.

Our Maharashtra cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows what your rank reaches before you order preferences.

Source: State CET Cell, Maharashtra, Notice No. 10, No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026/CAP/Revised Schedule/2034, dated 19/08/2026, referencing the MCC revised schedule of 19/08/2026 and State CET Cell Notice No. 08 of 14/08/2026.

By Ashok Hegde, Founder, neet2seat.com

The State CET Cell, Maharashtra has extended NEET UG 2026 CAP-1 registration to 15 August 2026, 8 PM, and revised the MBBS/BDS (Group A) admission schedule. The change follows the Medical Counselling Committee’s decision to extend All India Quota counselling, announced through CET Cell Notice No. 08 dated 14 August 2026.

If you have not yet registered for Maharashtra’s state counselling (CAP), you now have until 15 August. Registration is only complete after you pay the fee and upload your documents, so do not leave it to the last minute.

Revised CAP-1 schedule (MBBS/BDS, Group A)

• Online registration and session apply: extended up to 15 August, 8:00 PM
• Payment of registration fee: up to 15 August, 10:00 PM
• Upload of scanned original documents: up to 15 August, 11:59 PM
• Online document verification: up to 17 August
• Registered candidate list and provisional merit list: 18 August
• Grievances/corrections (with proof): 19-20 August, up to 5:00 PM
• Final merit list and seat matrix: 21 August
• Online choice/preference filling: 22-24 August, up to 5:30 PM
• CAP Round 1 allotment: 25 August
• Physical joining at the allotted college (with originals and fee DD): 26-30 August, up to 5:30 PM

A candidate is treated as registered only after the registration fee is paid successfully. Anyone who does not upload the required documents will not be considered for admission from the claimed category, so upload coloured scans of all original documents on the portal.

NRI candidates

NRI candidates must register on the Foreign Candidate Registration Portal before 14 August 2026, 11:59 PM, to have their eligibility verified. The rest of their schedule is the same as above. See CET Cell Notice No. 04 for NRI eligibility and process.

This schedule can change on the direction of the MCC, AACCC, central or state government, or the courts. All other instructions from CET Cell Notice No. 03 continue to apply.

What to do now

• Complete your CAP registration, fee payment and document upload by 15 August.
• Plan your preferences: check last year’s Maharashtra MBBS closing ranks and use our college predictor before choice filling opens on 22 August.
• Read our Maharashtra counselling guide for the full CAP process, documents and quotas.

Related: NEET UG 2026 All India Quota Round 1 registration extended

Official links

• CET Cell Notice No. 08 – CAP-1 revised schedule (PDF)
• Maharashtra NEET UG 2026 CAP portal (medical2026.mahacet.org)

Source: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra — Notice No. 08, NEET UG 2026: Extension for Registration and Revised Schedule for MBBS/BDS (Group A), dated 14 August 2026.

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The Maharashtra State CET Cell has opened online registration for NEET UG 2026 admissions to MBBS and BDS through the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) for 2026-27. Registration and session apply run from 6 August to 12 August 2026 (up to 11:59 PM).

Admission to Government, Government-aided, Municipal Corporation, private unaided and other notified medical and dental colleges is on your NEET UG 2026 merit. Registration alone does not confer a right to admission — it is subject to eligibility and document verification.

Key points

• Online registration and session apply: 6 to 12 August 2026, up to 11:59 PM.
• Eligibility: qualified in NEET UG 2026; admission on NEET merit.
• Read the official Information Brochure carefully before submitting the form — it has the eligibility, reservation and counselling rules.
• NRI candidates have a separate eligibility and registration process (Notice No. 04, linked below).
• All updates, schedules and CAP round notifications will be posted on the official admission portal.

Get your documents ready before you register — see our Maharashtra CAP documents checklist (EWS must be in the Maharashtra format, caste validity and non-creamy-layer certificates take time). Then check last year’s Maharashtra closing ranks and the list of Maharashtra medical colleges, use the college predictor, and read our Maharashtra counselling guide.

Registration help resources

The CET Cell has published official step-by-step guides. Maharashtra registration needs a DigiLocker account and an APAAR ID for document verification, so set those up first.

• Registration user manual 2026 (PDF)
• Watch the CET Maharashtra registration tutorial video
• How to create a DigiLocker account (PDF)
• How to create an APAAR ID (PDF)
• How to raise a support ticket (PDF)

Official links

• NEET UG 2026 MBBS/BDS Information Brochure (PDF)
• Notice No. 03 – CAP registration schedule and guidelines (PDF)
• Notice No. 04 – NRI candidates eligibility and registration (PDF)
• Maharashtra CAP admission portal (medical2026.mahacet.org)
• Maharashtra State CET Cell

What to do now

• Read the Information Brochure, then register on the CAP portal before 12 August, 11:59 PM.
• Upload the certificates that support every claim (category, EWS, domicile) during registration.
• NRI candidates: follow the separate process in Notice No. 04.

Source: Maharashtra State CET Cell — Notice No. 03 (CAP registration schedule) and the NEET UG 2026 Information Brochure, dated 5 August 2026 (mahacet.org).

The Maharashtra State CET Cell has told NEET UG 2026 candidates to keep all their documents ready. In Notice No. 02, dated 4 August 2026, it said the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) for health-science undergraduate courses (MBBS, BDS and others) for 2026-27 will begin shortly.

Admission to Government, Government-aided, unaided and minority colleges in Maharashtra is done through CAP by the CET Cell, based on your NEET UG 2026 merit. During registration it is mandatory to upload the certificates that support every claim you make, so get them from the competent authority in advance.

Documents to keep ready

• NEET UG 2026 admit card and score card.
• SSC (Class 10 or equivalent) passing certificate.
• HSC (Class 12 or equivalent) marksheet.
• Nationality certificate and domicile certificate.
• Medical fitness certificate (as per the information brochure annexure).
• Leaving or transfer certificate.
• Caste certificate, caste validity certificate and non-creamy-layer certificate (for SC, ST, VJ/DT-NT, SEBC, OBC, SBC as applicable).
• EWS certificate in the Maharashtra State format only — the Central Government format is not accepted.
• Orphan certificate (from the Women and Child Welfare Department), if applicable.
• Person with Benchmark Disability certificate from an MCC-authorised medical board, if applicable.
• Defence certificate and hilly-area (Dongari) certificate, if you claim those quotas.

Two points that trip candidates up: the EWS certificate must be in the Maharashtra format, and the disability certificate must come from the medical board notified by MCC. The CET Cell has issued separate PwBD admission guidelines (linked below).

While CAP is awaited, check last year’s Maharashtra closing ranks and the list of Maharashtra medical colleges, use the college predictor to see which seats fit your rank, and read our Maharashtra counselling guide.

Official links

• Notice No. 02 – required documents for admission (PDF)
• PwBD admission guidelines (PDF)
• Maharashtra State CET Cell

What to do now

• Make a checklist from the list above and collect every document that applies to you.
• Get your caste validity, non-creamy-layer and EWS (Maharashtra format) certificates early — these take time.
• Watch cetcell.mahacet.org for the CAP schedule and registration start.

Source: Maharashtra State CET Cell — Notice No. 02, NEET UG 2026, dated 4 August 2026 (cetcell.mahacet.org).

Maharashtra has scrapped the institutional round for admissions to private medical and dental colleges, under revised admission rules issued by the state’s Medical Education and Drugs Department on 23 July 2026. From this year, private college MBBS and BDS seats will be filled only through the centralised Common Admission Process (CAP) run by the State CET Cell.

The institutional round was the stage at the end of counselling where private colleges filled their leftover seats on their own. Students, parents and activists had long criticised it for opaque allotments and inflated fee demands. That route is now closed.

Key Fact: All private college UG medical and dental admissions in Maharashtra, including stray vacancy rounds, now happen only through CAP by the State CET Cell. Colleges can no longer run their own institutional round to fill vacant seats.

A two-year ban for seat-blocking

The revised rules add a penalty aimed at candidates who lock up a seat and then walk away. A candidate allotted a seat in the final counselling round who fails to join will be barred from Maharashtra UG medical and dental admissions for the next two years.

Watch Out: Free exit without penalty is available only after the first CAP round. If you accept an allotment in the final round and then abandon it, you risk a two-year ban from the state’s medical and dental admissions.

Why the institutional round change matters to you

For a genuine aspirant, one transparent process is an advantage. Your merit and CAP preferences decide the seat, not a college’s discretionary list, and the fee is the notified CAP fee rather than an on-the-spot demand. Any seat left vacant after CAP’s cut-off date simply stays vacant.

A CET Cell official put it this way: “Now that all admissions have to be through CAP, the CET Cell will conduct admissions till the cut-off date. If seats remain vacant even after that, they will remain vacant, with no possibility of an institutional round.”

What to do now

• Fill every private college you would genuinely accept in your CAP preference list; there is no institutional back door to catch a missed seat later.
• Treat the first CAP round as your free-exit checkpoint if you are unsure, since penalty-free withdrawal ends after it.
• Accept a final-round allotment only if you actually intend to join, to avoid the two-year ban.
• Track dates and the seat matrix on the State CET Cell site and register within the CAP window.

Frequently asked questions

Does this apply to deemed universities? No. Deemed university seats fill through MCC’s all-India counselling, not Maharashtra’s CAP. This change is for the state’s private medical and dental colleges.

Can a private college still call me directly to fill a vacant seat? No. With the institutional round removed, colleges cannot make their own allotments; every seat, including stray vacancies, goes through CAP.

When does the two-year ban apply? If you are allotted a seat in the final round and do not join. Withdrawing after the first round is penalty-free.

Is this only for MBBS? No. The revised rules cover both undergraduate medical (MBBS) and dental (BDS) admissions in private colleges.

Building your Maharashtra choice list? Order private colleges by your rank and category with our NEET college predictor, and check closing ranks on the Maharashtra cutoffs and Maharashtra colleges pages.

Maharashtra has abolished the mandatory one-year MBBS bond service, through a Government Resolution issued on 23 July 2026. Graduates who have not yet been allotted bond service, or were allotted a posting but never joined, no longer have to serve it. The order is from the state’s Medical Education Department and takes effect immediately; the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) is shutting its online portal for bond-service allotment, and no fresh allotments will be made.

Key Fact: The bond scrapped is the one-year compulsory service that graduates from government and government-quota MBBS seats had to complete before they became eligible for postgraduate admission.

Who is exempt from the MBBS bond and who must still serve

The relief depends on where you were in the bond cycle on the date the GR was issued.

• Exempt: graduates not yet allotted bond service; those allotted a posting but who never joined; and those who could not complete the remaining part of their service.
• Still bound: graduates who had already started their bond and joined their posting before the GR was issued must complete the remaining tenure.

Watch Out: Penalty amounts already paid to exit the bond earlier are not being refunded. If you bought out your bond before 23 July 2026, that money does not come back.

Why Maharashtra dropped the bond

The government’s stated reason is a mismatch between graduates and posts. The number of medical colleges and MBBS graduates in Maharashtra has risen sharply over the years, while sanctioned posts for bond service stayed limited. Many graduates could not be given a posting in time, and because the bond stayed incomplete through no fault of theirs, they were held back from PG admission.

What the bond removal means for your PG timeline

For NEET-PG aspirants from Maharashtra, an incomplete or pending bond can no longer stall your admission or your eligibility documents for the current cycle. If you were waiting on a posting to clear your record, that bottleneck is gone.

Quick Tip: If your college or DMER record still shows a pending bond obligation, get written confirmation of exemption citing the 23 July 2026 GR before your PG document verification, so there is no dispute at the counselling desk.

What to do now

• Check your bond status on your college or DMER record, and note whether you had joined a posting before 23 July 2026.
• If you were exempt, keep a copy of the GR for PG document verification.
• If you had already joined, plan to complete your remaining tenure; the exemption does not cover you.
• Do not count on a refund of any bond-exit penalty already paid.
• Confirm the notified wording on the DMER site before acting on anything time-sensitive.

Frequently asked questions

Does this cover private college MBBS graduates? The bond applied to government and government-quota seats. If you never carried a bond obligation, nothing changes for you.

I paid a penalty last year to skip the bond. Do I get it back? No. The state has said previously paid penalty amounts are non-refundable.

I joined my bond posting in June 2026. Am I free now? No. Graduates who had already joined before the GR must finish their remaining service.

Where is the official order? It is a Government Resolution from Maharashtra’s Medical Education Department dated 23 July 2026; the notified copy will be on the DMER site.

Planning your next move after this change? Use our NEET college predictor to see where your rank stands, and track state seats and closing ranks on the Maharashtra MBBS hub and Maharashtra cutoffs pages.