New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- The government has reduced the qualifying eligibility percentile for postgraduate medical counselling in 2025 to prevent PG seats from remaining vacant, minister of state for health Anupriya Patel told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

In a written reply, Patel said: "Consistent with past academic years which had proven effective in ensuring maximum seat utilisation, the government reduced the qualifying percentile for eligibility to PG Counselling 2025 to ensure precious PG medical seats do not remain vacant."

The move follows the completion of two rounds of counselling. The reply further read: "The decision to revise the qualifying percentiles follows the completion of Round-2 counselling by MCC wherein it was reported...