With this expansion, 23 of the State’s 35 government medical colleges will offer postgraduate courses, compared with 10 colleges earlier
The governor said the Centre had introduced several landmark initiatives in recent years to make quality healthcare more accessible, affordable and inclusive.
The National Medical Commission approved an addition of 13,186 MBBS seats, raising the total to 1,40,214, with Karnataka receiving the largest boost of 1,650 seats. The Medical Counselling Committee also released the provisional Round 2 allotment results for NEET UG 2026 counselling.
As Karnataka has reverted to the earlier reservation quantum for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, with cases against the increased reservation in recruitment being heard in the High Court of Karnataka, the number of medical seats for these communities has seen a decline
