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Are NIOS students eligible to appear for NEET UG? NMC responds

NEET UG 2025: "The students are permitted to study an additional subject from NIOS with the condition that the study needs to be carried out from any authorized institutions," read the RTI clarification from the NMC.

Are NIOS students eligible to appear for NEET UG 2025? NMC responds

In its clarification, the Commission has said that NIOS-registered students can appear and are eligible for the NEET UG.(Representative image/ Express photo)

NEET UG 2025: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has replied to an RTI query asking whether students from the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) are eligible to appear for NEET UG 2025. In its clarification, the Commission has said that NIOS-registered students can appear and are eligible for the NEET UG.

“The students are permitted to study an additional subject from NIOS with the condition that the study needs to be carried out from any authorized institutions,” read the RTI clarification from the NMC.

The notice after NTA released the NEET UG 2025 information bulletin on the national level medical examination. “It has come to the notice that confusion has been created stating that the National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued NEET-UG Bulletin 2025, which is not as per NMC Regulations,” read the notification.

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Meanwhile, the 2019 National Medical Commission guideline requiring an MBBS aspirant to have “both hands intact” “reeks of ableism and has no place in a statutory regulation”, said the Supreme Court.

Confirming the admission granted to a candidate with 50 per cent locomotor disability — it affects a person’s ability to move their limbs or to move objects — by its interim order dated December 12, 2024, a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan reiterated the call for revising the NMC guidelines.

The court said the prescription of “both hands intact” was “completely antithetical” to Article 41 of the Constitution, the principles enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the salutary provisions of the RPwD Act.

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