CHENNAI: The total number of government MBBS seats has increased from 9,950 to 10,050 seats with the National Medical Commission (NMC) giving approval for increasing 50 seats each at the two government medical colleges in Namakkal and Tiruppur.
According to the Directorate of Medical Education and Research officials, the government medical colleges currently have 100 MBBS seats each. With an additional 50, the MBBS intake will go up to 150 seats in each of the colleges. The government has also applied for increasing the seats in two more government medical colleges and is awaiting NMC’s reply.
The state has 5,050 MBBS seats in 36 government medical colleges, including 150 seats in state-run ESI Coimbatore Medical College, 3,900 government quota seats in self-financing medical colleges, and 850 seats in state private universities. These seats will be filled by the State Selection Committee under the Directorate of Medical Education and Research.
It may be noted that the Selection Committee began online sale of applications to MBBS and BDS courses for admission to the academic year 2026-27 on June 29. The online process was started before the NEET-UG results were declared. The last date for submission of online applications will be at least one week after the declaration of NEET-UG 2026 results.
Applications were invited for government medical, dental colleges, government quota seats in self-financing medical, dental colleges and state private universities, and management quota seats including NRI quota seats (For further details, visit www.tnmedicalselection.org). Till Saturday, 43,000 candidates have submitted applications for government and management seats.
Govt will appeal against deemed univ status, says Arunraj
Chennai: NEET has destroyed the dreams of poor and rural students of becoming doctors, and the government is against this, said Health Minister K G Arunraj on the sidelines of an event to observe World Population Day on Saturday. When private universities are granted deemed-to-be university status, they don’t follow reservation and seat sharing with the government. “This will also affect 7.5% reservation for government school students. The government will file an appeal against this,” he said. The minister was speaking after flagging off the World Population Day awareness day rally from Semmozhi Poonga. He also inaugurated a seminar at the DMS campus. “Tamil Nadu’s total fertility rate is 1.3 and at the national level it is 1.9. This should be 2.1,” Arunraj added. In Tamil Nadu 16 out of 100 people are above 60. This is indicative that the state is soon going to have more aging population than youth, he added. ENS
