# NMC proposes mandatory re-registration for 11 lakh doctors 2026-08-22T07:50:54+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The National Medical Commission has proposed making it mandatory for an estimated 11 lakh doctors in India to re-register through its web portal, 14 years after the first attempt to update the national registry. The proposal comes through amendments to the Registration of Medical Practitioners and Licence to Practice Medicine Regulations 2023. The last attempt in August 2024 saw only 32,000 doctors apply and just 1,800 approved for registration. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The NMC is attempting what the MCI failed to do since 2012: create a single, live national register of doctors. Section 30(7) of the NMC Act 2019 mandates electronic synchronisation between state and national registers, but this has never been implemented. The commission's approach forces all 11 lakh doctors to prove they are active, rather than using state council data and deduplication software to identify only the non-practising fraction. With over 13.8 lakh doctors on paper but likely only 11 lakh active, the real stakes are patient safety and preventing unqualified practitioners from holding valid licences. Watch for the stipulated re-registration timeline in the final amendment. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Reports facts and timeline without favour, quotes a critical doctor and notes regulatory failure This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Ethics and Medical Registration Board, Indian Medical Register, National Medical Commission Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/nmc-proposes-mandatory-re-registration-for-11-lakh-doctors/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/nmc-proposes-mandatory-re-registration-for-11-lakh-doctors/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/