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NMC fails to register at least 24,000 new doctors in national registry
The National Medical Commission has failed to register at least 24,000 MBBS graduates from last year alone, even as it pushes 11 lakh older doctors to re-register. With 91,000 MBBS seats and…
The National Medical Commission has failed to register at least 24,000 MBBS graduates from last year alone, even as it pushes 11 lakh older doctors to re-register. With 91,000 MBBS seats and a 75-90% pass rate, about 68,000 new doctors should have been added to the Indian Medical Register in 2025, but only 44,400 entries exist. Including foreign medical graduates who passed the qualifying exam in 2023, roughly 80,000 would have sought registration last year, yet just over half were entered.
State medical councils say they send new entries to the NMC every year, but the national registry is not reflecting them. The Assam Medical Council, for example, shows just one entry for 2025 despite having over 720 to 1,000 seats annually. The NMC Act, 2019, mandated synchronisation of state and national registries, but this has not been achieved since the commission was constituted in September 2020. The current registry remains out of date for both fresh graduates and experienced doctors.
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The National Medical Commission was created in 2020 under the NMC Act, 2019, specifically to replace the Medical Council of India and fix regulatory gaps, including a unified national registry. That synchronisation of state and national registers was a core statutory mandate, yet nearly six years later it remains undone. The practical consequence goes beyond missing data: without a reliable national register, the government cannot accurately assess doctor-to-population ratios, track where physicians are deployed, or enforce quality standards. The count of missing graduates alone last year, at least 24,000, is roughly the output of 30 medical colleges. The NMC now faces the question of whether the re-registration drive it is pushing for older doctors can work when the basic pipeline for new entrants is broken.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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