New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- India's apex medical education regulator has approved a gross addition of 6,850 MBBS seats for the 2025-26 academic year, potentially boosting the intake for the highly-coveted undergraduate medical degree programme across the country to 123,700.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has also put on hold about 2,000 seats across the country due to non-compliance of certain norms, and colleges have been given an opportunity to plug the gaps to unlock those seats, government officials aware of the matter said on the condition of anonymity.

This significant increase in the MBBS (bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery) seats by the NMC will improve admission prospects for the over 12.3 lakh students who qualified t...