Chandigarh, Nov 11: In a significant boost to postgraduate medical education in Chandigarh, the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, has received approval from the National Medical Commission (NMC) for 22 additional MD/MS seats for the 2026-27 academic session.
With the latest approval, the college’s postgraduate seat strength will increase from 155 to 177. The newly sanctioned seats will be filled during the second round of counselling for the academic session.
The approval has been granted by the NMC’s Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) through its revised seat matrix for GMCH-32.
The additional seats have been distributed across eight specialities. General Medicine and Physiology have received four seats each, while General Surgery, Ophthalmology and Paediatrics will get three additional seats each. Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pathology have been allocated two seats each, while Forensic Medicine has received one additional seat.
The expansion is expected to strengthen the college’s postgraduate medical training capacity and provide more opportunities to aspiring medical specialists.
As per the Supreme Court’s directions, 50 per cent of the seats, excluding Economically Weaker Section (EWS) seats under the state quota, are allocated to the All India Quota, with the remaining seats falling under the state quota.
Under the state quota, 15 per cent of seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes, seven per cent for Other Backward Classes (Non-Creamy Layer), while five per cent horizontal reservation is provided for persons with benchmark disabilities.
Before the latest NMC approval, GMCH-32 had four EWS seats, while the remaining 151 seats were divided equally between the All India and state quotas.
