Maharashtra’s postgraduate medical capacity will increase by 1,066 MD and MS seats for the upcoming academic year, taking the state’s total from 6,549 to 7,615, according to information attributed to the National Medical Commission and Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Hasan Mushrif.
The increase includes 720 seats across 23 of the state’s 35 government medical colleges and 346 seats in private medical colleges. The expansion represents a 16.3% rise over last year’s total and places Maharashtra second nationally, behind Karnataka, which has 8,862 postgraduate medical seats.
The additional government seats are expected to be significant for medical graduates because postgraduate education in private colleges costs approximately ₹25 lakh to ₹27 lakh for one year, according to the report. Government medical colleges do not require students to pay those private-sector fees, making the increase in publicly funded capacity more accessible to students who cannot afford private education.
Pune’s B J Medical College has received 17 additional seats. The same increase has been reported for government medical colleges in Nagpur and Yavatmal. The largest increase is at the government medical college in Dharashiv, with 77 new seats, followed by Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar with 73, Satara with 64, Dhule with 44 and Ambernath with 40.
Kolhapur and Ambajogai have each received 39 additional seats, while Latur has received 38 and Indira Gandhi Government Medical College in Nagpur has received 37. Solapur and Jalna have each gained 35 seats, Hingoli 32, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Mumbai 30, Alibag 27, Baramati 22 and Nanded 19. The figures were reported as part of the state’s expanded postgraduate admission capacity.
The additional seats cover several clinical and supporting specialities, including general medicine, general surgery, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, radiology, pathology, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, along with pre-clinical and para-clinical subjects. The postgraduate admission process for the state has already begun.
Mushrif attributed the expansion to the approval of additional seats by the National Medical Commission. Dheeraj Kumar, secretary of the state Medical Education Department, prepared a plan for increasing the seats and submitted it to the commission, according to the report.
The increase will expand the number of doctors able to receive specialist training within Maharashtra’s medical education system. It also adds capacity to government institutions across regions including Marathwada, Vidarbha, western Maharashtra, North Maharashtra and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The next operational milestone is the completion of the ongoing postgraduate admission process for the expanded seat pool.
