Meghalaya MBBS 2026 —
PIMC Shortlist Published, 381 Candidates Called
The Directorate of Health Services (Medical Education & Research), Shillong, opened admission to P.A. Sangma International Medical College & Hospital at Baridua on 6 August. One hundred and fifty MBBS seats, three quotas, a seven-day application window that closed 13 August. The shortlist for counselling published across 18, 19 and 20 August at the DME office in Laitumkhrah — 381 candidates called across five category lists, against 150 seats. For a student in Guwahati this is the closest open-door medical college there is — and the fee gap between quotas is wider than most families expect.
Last verified · 23 August 2026 · against meghealth.gov.in and the DME’s 14 August notifications
The short version. P.A. Sangma International Medical College & Hospital, Baridua, 9th Mile, Ri-Bhoi — run under USTM — is admitting its 2026-27 MBBS batch. The 150 seats break into 22 NRI, 64 State Quota and 64 Management Quota. The shortlist for counselling (Notification No. DHSME&R.152/USTM/MBBS/2026/4845-A, 14 August) published across 18, 19 and 20 August, with counselling held at the DME office, Top Floor, Health Complex, Laitumkhrah, Shillong — not at the Baridua campus. A companion notice the same day (No. 4847) warns that no vehicles are allowed inside the Health Complex campus; plan drop-off and pick-up outside. Across the five published category lists, 381 candidates were called: 45 for Unreserved, 162 for Khasi & Jaintia, 44 for Garo, 12 for SC/OST, and 118 for Management. No separate NRI shortlist has been published as of this writing. Counselling is run by MSCAME, the Meghalaya State Counselling Authority for Medical Education.
Seven Days to Apply,
Then the List Goes Up
| Stage | Date & time |
|---|---|
| Online application opens | 7 August 2026, from 12:00 noon |
| Online application closes | 13 August 2026, 5:00 PM |
| List of shortlisted candidates for counselling | Published 18, 19 and 20 August 2026 (Notification No. 4845-A) |
| Counselling, document verification & reporting | Office of the DME, Top Floor, Health Complex, Laitumkhrah, Shillong — 18, 19, 20 August, by category/time slot per the shortlist |
| Allotment letter issue and download | To be notified by the DME |
| Portal | meghealth.gov.in |
The three shortlist dates turned out to be a staggered publication by category and NEET score band, each with its own reporting time slot — not three copies of the same list. Every candidate must check their own name and time slot on the official shortlist rather than assume a single reporting time for all of PIMC.
The Full Four-Round
NEET-UG 2026 Schedule
| Round | All India Quota / Deemed & Central Universities | Meghalaya State Counselling |
|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | 4–17 August 2026 | 13–22 August 2026 |
| Last date of joining, Round 1 | 22 August 2026 | 28 August 2026 |
| Round 2 | 24 August–2 September 2026 | 31 August–8 September 2026 |
| Last date of joining, Round 2 | 8 September 2026 | 14 September 2026 |
| Round 3 | 10–18 September 2026 | 16–26 September 2026 |
| Last date of joining, Round 3 | 26 September 2026 | 1 October 2026 |
| Stray Vacancy | 28 September–3 October 2026 | 3–5 October 2026 |
| Last date of joining, Stray Vacancy | 10 October 2026 | 10 October 2026 |
| Commencement of academic session | 8 September 2026 | |
This is the same NEET-UG 2026 schedule used across most state counselling authorities this year, reproduced here as it appears in PIMC’s own advertisement. If your PIMC shortlist rank does not convert to a seat in Round 1, Rounds 2 and 3 run into September — do not treat 20 August as the last chance.
Where the Seats Sit,
and Who Can Reach Them
| Quota | Seats | Who is eligible |
|---|---|---|
| State Quota | 64 | Meghalaya ST / SC / OST certificate holders, or Meghalaya PRC holders for the Unreserved share |
| Management Quota | 64 | Any Indian citizen — no domicile condition stated |
| NRI Quota | 22 | NRIs, with a certificate from the Indian Diplomatic Mission in the country of residence |
| State Quota category | Seats | Share | Certificate required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khasi & Jaintia (incl. PwBD) | 26 | 40% | Meghalaya ST certificate |
| Garo (incl. PwBD) | 26 | 40% | Meghalaya ST certificate |
| Unreserved (incl. PwBD) | 9 | 15% | PRC under Political Deptt. Letter No. POL.97/74/174 dated 10 July 1983 |
| SC / OST (incl. PwBD) | 3 | 5% | OSC / OST certificate from Govt. of Meghalaya |
PwBD candidates are absorbed inside each of the four categories rather than given a separate block, so a PwBD applicant still competes within their own tribal or resident category.
The Shortlist Is Out —
Here Are the Score Ranges, Not the Names
| Category | Seats | Candidates shortlisted | NEET score range (top–bottom of list) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unreserved (Meghalaya) | 9 | 45 | 472–400 |
| ST — Khasi & Jaintia Quota | 26 | 162 | 467–306 |
| ST — Garo Quota | 26 | 44 | 380–181 |
| SC/OST (Meghalaya) Quota | 3 | 12 | 389–226 |
| Management Quota | 64 | 118 | 504–179 |
| NRI Quota | 22 | No separate shortlist published as of this writing | |
What we did and did not publish. These counts and score ranges are OEF’s own compilation from the DME’s official shortlist PDF. We deliberately do not reproduce any candidate’s name or NEET roll number on this page — that is between you and the DME. Check your own name and reporting time slot directly at meghealth.gov.in or on the notice board at the DME office.
Two things worth reading into this table rather than just the totals. First, a shortlist is a call-list for document verification, not a final allotment — seats fill from the top of each list downward, in the order candidates report, freeze or float, so the bottom score on a list is not a promise of a seat, it is the DME’s buffer against no-shows. Second, the buffer size varies sharply by category: Khasi & Jaintia called 162 names for 26 seats (a 6× buffer) and SC/OST called 12 for 3 (4×), so realistically only the upper part of those two lists will convert to a seat in Round 1. Garo called only 44 for 26 seats (under 1.7×) — a much thinner buffer, which means most candidates on that list, even one scoring 181, have a real chance across the three rounds. Management sits in between: 118 shortlisted against 64 seats, roughly 1.8×.
If your score falls below even the Management Quota floor of 179, PIMC will not convert to a seat this year through any of its five published lists. At that point the realistic options are a Round 2/3 stray-vacancy seat elsewhere, a management or NRI quota seat at a private or deemed college outside the Northeast, or reassessing next year. That is exactly the conversation to have with us before you spend money chasing a seat the numbers do not support — see the free-consultation box below.
Counselling Venue
and the No-Vehicles Notice
| Detail | What the DME notified |
|---|---|
| Dates | 18, 19 and 20 August 2026 |
| Venue | Office of the Director of Health Services, Medical Education & Research (DME), Top Floor, Health Complex, Laitumkhrah, Shillong — not the PIMC campus at Baridua |
| Reporting time | As assigned to each candidate on the published shortlist — check your own slot, they differ by category and score band |
| Documents to bring | All originals listed in Advertisement No. 4622 (6 August); one set of self-attested photocopies; one self-attested passport-size photo |
| Parking | No vehicles permitted inside the Health Complex campus due to limited parking space. Arrange drop-off and pick-up outside the campus and cooperate with security/traffic-control staff. |
If you are travelling from Guwahati, budget extra time for the walk in from wherever your vehicle can drop you — Laitumkhrah is a busy stretch of Shillong on a counselling day, and this is a documented restriction, not a general caution.
A ₹17 Lakh Gap
Between Two Seats in the Same Classroom
| Payment | State Quota | Management Quota | NRI Quota |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application fee | ₹500 | ₹500 | ₹500 |
| Counselling fee | Nil | ₹3,000 | ₹25,000 |
| Tuition fee (non-refundable) | ₹4,95,000 | ₹22,00,000 | USD 43,000 |
The State Quota exemption applies to the application fee for SC, OST and ST candidates. Tuition is subject to the fee fixation committee, so treat the figures above as the published position on 6 August 2026 rather than a locked contract. Payment runs through SB-Collect, and the advertisement warns explicitly that money leaving your bank account is not by itself proof of payment — keep the transaction receipt and the confirmation page.
The advertisement does not list hostel, mess, caution deposit, university registration or examination charges. Every private medical college in the region carries them. Before you accept a Management seat, ask the college in writing for the total first-year outflow and the year-on-year escalation clause. We have seen families budget for the tuition line alone and get a bill 25–35% higher at reporting.
What Each Quota
Actually Asks For
| Requirement | Detail |
|---|---|
| NEET UG 2026 | Declared qualified. Merit and rank determined on the NEET UG 2026 All India Rank. |
| Class 12 aggregate in PCB | 50% for General; 40% for ST / SC / OST. English must be one of the subjects passed. |
| Age | Not below 17 years as on 31 December of the year of admission. |
| Medical fitness | Certified by a medical board constituted by the Health & Family Welfare Department, Government of Meghalaya. |
| PwBD assessment | Only from Medical Assessment Boards notified under the latest NMC regulations. |
| State Quota domicile | Meghalaya ST / SC / OST certificate from the competent authority, or Meghalaya PRC per Political Deptt. Letter No. POL.97/74/174 dated 10 July 1983. |
| Management Quota | Indian citizenship. No domicile requirement stated. |
| NRI Quota | Certificate from the Indian Diplomatic Mission in the country of residence. Admissions must comply with the revised MCC guidelines of 27 May 2026. |
One line in the eligibility section is worth flagging: the 40% PCB relaxation for ST / SC / OST applies to Meghalaya candidates claiming State Quota seats. If you are applying under Management Quota from outside the state, the advertisement's General threshold of 50% is what you should plan against.
The NEET UG 2026
Percentile Table
| Category | Percentile | Score band |
|---|---|---|
| General | 50th | 715–213 |
| General — PwBD | 45th | 212–194 |
| SC / ST / OBC | 40th | 212–177 |
| SC / OBC — PwBD | 40th | 193–177 |
| ST — PwBD | 40th | 193–177 |
The printed advertisement shows the OBC band as 212–197, which does not match the NTA-published 40th percentile floor of 177 that the same table applies to SC and ST. We have set it out here against the NTA position. If you are an OBC candidate scoring between 177 and 197, raise it with the DME office in writing before the 13 August cut-off rather than assuming either reading. Our full breakdown is on the NEET UG 2026 qualifying marks page.
Originals You Must Carry
to Laitumkhrah
| Document | Applies to |
|---|---|
| Age proof certificate | All |
| NEET UG 2026 score card and admit card | All |
| Class 10 and Class 12 mark sheets and passing certificates | All |
| Domicile / Permanent Resident Certificate | State Quota Unreserved |
| ST / SC / OST certificate | State Quota reserved categories |
| Passport-size photographs | All |
| NRI status proof, passport and visa, relationship documents, sponsorship documents, MCC-prescribed affidavits | NRI Quota |
On false documents. Clause 8 sets out three consequences and none of them are discretionary: admission cancelled at whatever stage the discovery is made, a three-year debarment from any State Government quota course, and legal or criminal proceedings against the candidate and, where applicable, the parents or guardian. The clause names Meghalaya ST / SC / OST and Permanent Resident Certificates specifically, which tells you where the scrutiny will focus.
The Nearest Open Door
Is 40 Minutes Away
Baridua sits on the Guwahati–Shillong road at 9th Mile, inside Ri-Bhoi district. From Six Mile in Guwahati it is roughly an hour's drive. For an Assam family that has spent July watching state after state close its quota to outsiders, that geography is the whole point.
Assam has no private medical college. A student from Guwahati who misses the DME Assam state quota and does not clear the All India Quota cut-off has historically had to look at Karnataka, Maharashtra or abroad. PIMC's 64 Management Quota seats change that arithmetic, because the advertisement attaches no domicile condition to them. What it does attach is a ₹22 lakh annual tuition line, which is where the conversation with your family actually needs to happen.
Two practical points. First, the Management Quota counselling fee of ₹3,000 is separate from and additional to the ₹500 application fee, and neither is refundable. Second, the 7–13 August window overlaps almost exactly with MCC Round 1 choice filling and with the Assam, Chhattisgarh and Bihar state windows. If you are running more than one application, write the deadlines on paper before you start — portals do not warn you about clashes on other portals.
Related pages worth reading alongside this one: Assam DME counselling 2026, NEIGRIHMS Shillong MBBS, and the MCC All India Quota schedule. The deadline tracker puts all nineteen state windows on one screen.
Where to Ask
If Something Is Unclear
| Office | Director of Health Services, Medical Education & Research (DME), Health Complex, Laitumkhrah, Shillong, Meghalaya |
| dmeshillong@gmail.com | |
| Phone | 94851 06663 |
| Portal | meghealth.gov.in |
| Counselling authority | MSCAME — Meghalaya State Counselling Authority for Medical Education |
Questions Parents Ask Us
The Directorate of Health Services (Medical Education & Research), Shillong, issued advertisement No. DHSME&R.152/USTM/MBBS/2026/4622 inviting online applications for 1st year MBBS at P.A. Sangma International Medical College & Hospital, Baridua, 9th Mile, Ri-Bhoi. It covers all three quotas at that college — State, Management and NRI — for the 2026-27 session. Applications open 7 August 2026 at 12:00 noon and close 13 August 2026 at 5:00 PM on meghealth.gov.in.
Yes, but only through Management Quota or NRI Quota. The 64 State Quota seats are closed to outsiders: they need either a Meghalaya ST/SC/OST certificate from a competent authority in the state, or a Permanent Resident Certificate issued under Government of Meghalaya Political Department Letter No. POL.97/74/174 dated 10 July 1983. Management Quota carries no domicile condition — the advertisement asks only for Indian citizenship, a NEET UG 2026 qualification and the Class 12 marks threshold. That makes those 64 Management seats one of the few genuinely open MBBS routes inside the Northeast.
NRI Quota 22, State Quota 64, Management Quota 64. Within the 64 State Quota seats: Khasi & Jaintia 26 (40%), Garo 26 (40%), Unreserved 9 (15%), and SC/OST 3 (5%). PwBD candidates are accommodated within each of those four categories rather than as a separate block.
Tuition, stated as non-refundable in the advertisement: ₹4,95,000 under State Quota, ₹22,00,000 under Management Quota, and USD 43,000 under NRI Quota, all subject to the fee fixation committee. On top of that: a ₹500 application fee for every quota, and a counselling fee of nil for State Quota, ₹3,000 for Management Quota and ₹25,000 for NRI Quota. Payment is through SB-Collect. Note that the tuition figures are annual and the advertisement does not list hostel, mess or other recurring charges — ask the college for the full first-year outflow before you commit.
The advertisement adopts the MCC 2026 position directly. If you Freeze, you report physically to the institution and complete admission formalities. If you Float, you keep the allotted seat, stay eligible for upgradation in later rounds, and are not required to complete final admission formalities until your allotment becomes final. Choosing Float and then also travelling to report is a common and expensive mistake.
The advertisement is unusually direct about this. Admission stands cancelled immediately regardless of how far into the course you are; the candidate is debarred from any State Government quota course for three years; and legal or criminal proceedings can be initiated against the candidate and, where applicable, the parents or guardian. It names Meghalaya ST/SC/OST and Permanent Resident Certificates specifically. Treat a borrowed domicile as an unrecoverable risk, not a shortcut.
No. Clause 6 of the advertisement says so plainly: appearing and qualifying in NEET UG 2026 confers no right to admission. Selection depends on eligibility, rank in the merit list, medical fitness certified by a board constituted by the Health & Family Welfare Department, and any other criteria the Government of Meghalaya prescribes. PwBD assessment is only valid from Medical Assessment Boards notified under the latest NMC regulations.
Per the DME’s published shortlist (Notification No. DHSME&R.152/USTM/MBBS/2026/4845-A, 14 August 2026): 45 candidates were called for the 9 Unreserved seats, scoring 472 down to 400. 162 were called for the 26 Khasi & Jaintia seats, scoring 467 down to 306. 44 were called for the 26 Garo seats, scoring 380 down to 181. 12 were called for the 3 SC/OST seats, scoring 389 down to 226. 118 were called for the 64 Management seats, scoring 504 down to 179. No separate shortlist was published for the 22 NRI seats as of this writing. These are call-lists for document verification, not a final allotment result, and we have not published any individual candidate’s name or roll number here — check your own status directly at meghealth.gov.in.
Counselling for all quotas runs on 18, 19 and 20 August 2026 at the Office of the Director of Health Services, Medical Education & Research (DME), Top Floor, Health Complex, Laitumkhrah, Shillong — not at the PIMC campus in Baridua. A separate DME notice (No. DHSME&R.152/USTM/MBBS/2026/4847, 14 August 2026) states that no vehicles are permitted inside the Health Complex campus due to limited parking, so plan for drop-off and pick-up outside the campus. Bring all original documents listed in the 6 August advertisement, one set of self-attested photocopies, and one self-attested passport-size photo.
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