# RIMS Ranchi gets 36 new NEET PG seats, total reaches 212 2026-11-07T03:36:22+00:00 | Health & Science | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The National Medical Commission (NMC) has added 36 postgraduate seats at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi for the 2026-27 academic session, raising the total from 176 to 212. Anaesthesiology received the most new seats at eight, followed by Community Medicine and Microbiology with six each, General Medicine with five, Anatomy and Pharmacology with four each, and Physiology with three. With this addition, Jharkhand now has 338 PG broad-specialty seats across five medical colleges. RIMS has 212, MGM Jamshedpur 45, SNMMCH Dhanbad 37, Lakshmi Chandravanshi Medical College 24 and Netaji Subhas Medical College 20. Health department additional chief secretary Ajay Kumar Singh said the expansion will allow medical graduates to pursue specialist education within the state, increasing the availability of specialist doctors in the future. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The increase adds 36 seats across seven departments, with anaesthesiology getting the largest share of eight. Jharkhand's total PG broad-specialty seats now stand at 338 across five medical colleges. The expansion directly addresses a shortage of specialist doctors in the state, as health secretary Ajay Kumar Singh noted. The NMC's updated seat matrix for the 2026-27 academic year sets the new numbers. Students seeking admission must next check counselling schedules and eligibility criteria for the 212 RIMS seats. ## Coverage - prabhatkhabar.com Leads with seat increase figures and departmental break-up, attributes to NMC matrix update This brief was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Ajay Kumar Singh, Jharkhand, NEET PG, NMC, Ranchi, RIMS Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/rims-ranchi-gets-36-new-neet-pg-seats-total-reaches-212/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/rims-ranchi-gets-36-new-neet-pg-seats-total-reaches-212/#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/