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The Medical Counseling Committee (MCC) has given an important relief to the students dreaming of getting admission in MBBS, BDS and B.Sc Nursing courses in medical and dental colleges across the country. Despite completion of several rounds of counselling, around 2,000 MBBS seats remain vacant in various medical institutions including All India Quota (AIQ), deemed and central universities. To ensure that precious seats in the top medical institutions of the country do not go waste, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and MCC have decided to organize a Special Stray Vacancy Round, the online process of which has started on the official website mcc.nic.in. For those students who could not get the college of their choice in the previous rounds or who missed the cut-off very close, this is going to be the last chance of the year to become a doctor.
As per the official schedule released by MCC, interested and eligible candidates can complete their new registration from 2nd November 2026 to 4th November 2026 till 3:00 PM. The facility for payment of counseling fee will be active till 6:00 pm on 4th November. The choice filling process will start from November 2 and will continue till November 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM, while the choice locking window will be open from November 4 at 4:00 PM to November 5 at 11:00 AM. The seat allotment process will be completed on 5th and 6th November and the final seat allotment result will be declared on 7th November 2026. It will be mandatory for the selected candidates to report in person with original documents and fees at their respective allotted medical college from 7th November to 16th November 2026 till 5:00 PM. Along with this, the 5th round of BDS and B.Sc Nursing is also being conducted on the same parallel schedule.
Only those candidates who have not been allotted any seat in any previous All India Quota (AIQ) or State Level Quota counseling round and who are not currently enrolled on any seat are eligible to participate in the Special Stray Vacancy Round. The counseling committee has made it clear that there will be no provision of ‘free exit’ in this round. This means that if a candidate is allotted a seat as per his/her choice, he/she must compulsorily take admission. If the candidate does not report to the allotted seat, his/her security deposit amount will be forfeited and he/she may also be debarred (suspended) from the subsequent years’ NEET counseling process. Therefore candidates are advised to fill the choices only for those medical colleges where they are actually ready to take admission.
To participate in counselling, candidates must first visit the official portal of MCC mcc.nic.in. After this, you will have to click on the ‘UG Medical Counseling’ tab given on the homepage and select the ‘Special Stray Vacancy Round Registration’ link. After entering the login credentials (NEET Roll Number and Password), candidates have to fill the required details and make online payment of prescribed security amount and counseling fee. After successful payment it is necessary to fill and lock the college and course preferences carefully. After locking the choice, take a printout of it and keep it safe with you and keep NEET admit card, scorecard, class 10th and 12th marksheet, caste certificate and identity card ready for verification in the college immediately after allotment.