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  • Tamil Nadu enforces the MBBS fee rule even as Kerala colleges win a stay: where the 4.5-year fee fight stands

    Tamil Nadu has directed its medical colleges to stop charging MBBS fees for the internship year, becoming one of the first states to put a national rule into effect on the ground. On 23 June 2026, the Tamil Nadu Selection Committee ordered all self-financing medical and dental colleges and state private universities to charge only for the four-and-a-half-year academic course, not the full five or five-and-a-half years that some had been billing.

    The order carries out a National Medical Commission (NMC) directive that applies across India. NMC sent its notice to every state and union territory for action, and states are now passing it down to their colleges. At the same time, the rule has run into its first court challenge, in Kerala.

    What the national rule says

    An MBBS programme runs for five and a half years: 4½ years (54 months) of classroom and clinical teaching, followed by one year of compulsory rotating medical internship (CRMI). Some colleges were billing students for the full 5 or 5½ years, including the internship year, which is service rather than teaching.

    In a public notice dated 7 April 2026 (File No. CDN-13011/1/2026), NMC directed that “the fee for the MBBS course shall be charged only for prescribed academic duration of 4½ years (four and a half years)”. The notice cites the NMC Act 2019 and Supreme Court rulings that fees must be reasonable and tied to teaching actually delivered. It applies to every medical college, institution and university under NMC, government and private alike.

    Why it matters for you

    The effect is largest at private, deemed and self-financing colleges, where annual fees run high. If a college was charging for five or five-and-a-half years, the internship year should no longer carry a tuition charge, which can mean a full year of fees off the total. During that internship you are also entitled to a monthly stipend under the CRMI rules, not a fee demand from the college.

    Where it stands: a court challenge in Kerala

    The refund side of the rule is being contested. After the April notice, NMC issued a 6 June 2026 communication asking Kerala’s Director of Medical Education to have colleges refund the excess fees they had already collected. Four self-financing colleges in Kerala (Jubilee Mission, Amala, Pushpagiri and Kolenchery) challenged it, citing a heavy financial burden, and the Kerala High Court, through Justice P V Kunhikrishnan, stayed that refund directive for three months for the colleges that approached it. It is an interim order, not a final ruling, and it covers refunds of fees already collected rather than the underlying direction to charge only for the 4½-year course going forward. Tamil Nadu’s order, by contrast, is about what colleges may charge from here on.

    What to check during counselling

    • When you compare private or deemed college fees, confirm the quoted figure covers the 4½-year academic course, not five or five-and-a-half years.
    • Ask whether any charge is being levied for the internship year. Under the rule, it should not be.
    • Keep the fee notification from your state’s fee-fixation committee handy; colleges cannot collect more than the fixed amount.
    • Weigh fees alongside cutoffs when you build your list, using our cutoff analyser and counselling guides.

    Official documents

  • Re-NEET 2026 result date: when will NEET-UG results be out?

    The National Testing Agency has not announced a result date for NEET-UG 2026, but the steps left before results point to the middle of July. Here is how the remaining timeline reads, and why mid-July, around 15 July, is a reasonable expectation rather than a confirmed date.

    Where things stand

    • The re-examination (Re-NEET) was held on 21 June 2026.
    • The provisional answer key, question papers and OMR sheets came out on 25 June. See our note on the provisional answer key.
    • The answer key challenge window opened with the key on 25 June and closes on 28 June at 11:50 PM, so candidates get a four-day window to raise objections.

    What still has to happen before results

    Once the challenge window closes on 28 June, a subject-expert panel reviews every objection. NTA then publishes the final answer key, which usually lands within about a week of the window closing, so early July is the likely slot. Results and All India Ranks are prepared from that final key.

    In a normal year, NTA declares results within a few days to a week of the final key. Apply that gap to an early-July final key and mid-July, around 15 July, is where the result date settles. Several education outlets are pointing to the second week of July for the same reason.

    What you can do while you wait

    • Estimate your All India Rank now with our NEET rank predictor, using the provisional key to work out your likely marks.
    • Get counselling-ready early: read our counselling guides and sort your paperwork with the documents checklist before registration opens.
    • Raise any answer key challenge before the 28 June deadline. It is ₹200 per question, refunded if NTA accepts it.
    • Keep your application number and password handy; the scorecard will be login-gated on neet.nta.nic.in.

    We will update this page once NTA announces the official result date.

  • NEET-UG 2026 re-exam provisional answer key released; challenges open till 28 June

    The National Testing Agency has released the provisional answer key for the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. Candidates who sat the 21 June re-test (Re-NEET) can now match their responses against the official key and work out an expected score before results.

    NTA published the provisional answer key, the question papers and the recorded OMR response sheets on 25 June at neet.nta.nic.in. The key is login-gated, so you need your application number and password to open the version for your booklet code.

    How to check your answer key

    1. Go to neet.nta.nic.in and open the “NEET UG 2026 Provisional Answer Key” link.
    2. Log in with your application number and password (or date of birth).
    3. View the key for your test booklet code and download it for reference.

    How to challenge an answer

    If you think an answer is wrong, you can challenge it until 28 June, 11:50 PM. The fee is ₹200 per question, paid online, and it is refunded for every challenge NTA accepts. A subject-expert panel reviews each challenge, and the decision applies to all candidates who attempted that question.

    This year’s key already marks one question as dropped and one with two correct options. When a question is cancelled or has more than one valid answer, candidates get the marks under NTA’s scoring rules.

    What happens next

    After the challenge window closes, NTA reviews the objections and publishes the final answer key. That final key sets the actual scoring, and the NEET-UG 2026 results and All India Ranks follow from there.

    Official documents