The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has announced that the counselling process for the admission to medical, dental and related fields will commence from October 27. It has released the schedule for students who have cleared the NEET exams. Students who scored 50 percentile or more in the examination can register themselves at mcc.nic.in from Tuesday onwards.

The registration course will begin on October 27 and will conclude on November 2, around 5 pm. Candidates can pay the fees for the same till November, at 7 pm. After registration, choice filling or locking facility will be open. In this part of counselling, candidates will have to select courses and colleges as per choice and mark in form of preference. While allotting a seat, apart from merit, the choice will also be considered.

The results of first-round seat allotment will be declared on November 5. Candidates who want to take the seat given to them will have to report at the allotted college from November 6 to 12. Therein they may also have to undergo the process of documents verification. Candidates can also not accept the seat and wait for the next round. Only available seats will be up for grabs in the second round.

The registration for the second round of counselling will begin from November 18 and will continue till November 18. As of now, only two counselling rounds have been scheduled. If a seat is left vacant after that, a mop-up round will be held on December 10.

It has been decided by MCC that the earlier eligibility criteria of 15 per cent AIQ wherein total candidates called for counselling were five times the number of seats available for allotment were (as being done previously) has been abolished. All candidates will be eligible till exhaustion of seats. However, after the second round of counselling for all India quota seats, the students who take admission in All India Quota seats should not be allowed/permitted to vacate the seats as per the directions of Supreme Court.