NEIGRIHMS MBBS Admission 2026-27 —
1st Counselling Fixed for 22 August
A central government institute under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, with fees under ₹50,000 for the first year and eighteen seats open to candidates from all eight Northeast states. For an NE family, few opportunities in the whole admission calendar are worth more attention than this one.
Last verified · 19 August 2026 · against official counselling portals
The short answer. NEIGRIHMS Shillong MBBS admission 2026-27 closed applications on 17 August 2026. A notice dated 11 August 2026 fixed the 1st Counselling for 22 August 2026 (Saturday), held in hybrid mode — online and physical together. Candidates joining online must attend a mandatory mock drill on 21 August, 3:00 PM onwards. Online admission is provisional until document verification, to be completed by 28 August. The session commences 8 September 2026. There are 50 seats: Meghalaya 14, Nagaland 10, NE Open 18 covering all eight North Eastern states, and 8 on a common All India basis. First-year fees total Rs 47,600. Selection is on NEET UG 2026 merit, with every selected candidate signing a Rs 10,00,000 bond payable on leaving the course.
50 Seats, Split Four Ways
| Category | Seats |
|---|---|
| Meghalaya | 14 |
| Nagaland | 10 |
| NE Open — all eight NE states incl. Sikkim | 18 |
| Common All India basis | 8 |
| Total | 50 |
The prospectus states these numbers may change on directions from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. If you are not a Meghalaya or Nagaland domicile holder, the 18 NE Open seats are your entire competitive pool.
Five Conditions, All Required
Candidates who did not qualify NEET UG 2026 are not considered at all and do not appear on the merit list. There is no separate NEIGRIHMS entrance test and no marks are awarded for the counselling process itself.
The 1st Counselling —
Hybrid, and Provisional If You Join Online
The prospectus originally left the counselling date to be announced later. NEIGRIHMS fixed it on 11 August: 22 August 2026 (Saturday), run in hybrid mode so candidates can attend either online by video conference or in person at the institute in Shillong.
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | Last date for application submission |
| 21 August 2026, 3:00 PM onwards | Mandatory mock drill for candidates joining the counselling online, to test the video conference link |
| 22 August 2026 (Saturday) | 1st Counselling — hybrid mode, online and physical |
| By 28 August 2026 | Online candidates' admission is provisional until document verification and other admission formalities are completed by this date |
| 8 September 2026 | Commencement of the 2026-27 session |
The link is not out yet, and it will not be emailed to you individually. NEIGRIHMS states the links for both the mock drill and the counselling itself will be shared through a separate notification, uploaded to neigrihms.gov.in only after the application window closes on 17 August. There is no fixed date given for when that notification appears — the practical instruction is to check the website daily from 18 August onward rather than wait for a specific announcement date.
Online attendance is a convenience, not a shortcut on paperwork. Selection announced during an online session is provisional exactly like a physical one — the difference is that online candidates get until 28 August, rather than the same day, to get original documents in front of the institute and complete verification. Missing that window has the same consequence as missing counselling itself.
What to Carry, and How
the Counselling Works
No call letters are sent
The list of candidates called for counselling, and any waiting list, goes up on www.neigrihms.gov.in. NEIGRIHMS does not send individual call letters. Checking the website for your own date is your responsibility, and people miss seats over exactly this.
Attend in person, at your own cost
You must appear with originals of every document and undergo a medical examination by the Institute's Medical Board. A candidate found medically unfit is not admitted. Miss the notified counselling or medical date and you forfeit the claim; the seat goes to the waiting list in a second or third round.
Ineligibility is fatal at any stage
If ineligibility is detected before or after admission, the candidature is summarily rejected. False or concealed information means being debarred from admission entirely. Check every condition against your own papers before paying the ₹500 processing fee.
About the institute. The North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, established in 1987. Its MBBS course is affiliated to North Eastern Hill University, runs 4 years and 6 months plus a compulsory one-year rotatory internship, and is taught entirely in English. Disputes over counselling and admission fall under the jurisdiction of the Meghalaya High Court, Shillong.
Where OEF fits, and where it does not. NEIGRIHMS runs its own registration, counselling and admission through its own portal. We have no role in it, cannot submit or track your application, and cannot influence the merit list — nobody can, and anyone claiming otherwise should be reported. What we do is make sure your documents will survive verification, that your fallback options are registered before the NEIGRIHMS list is published, and that your family understands the bond before you sign it.
The Official Notices
Behind This Page
Checked against neigrihms.gov.in on 19 August 2026. We list the source so you can verify it yourself rather than taking our word for it — and so you know exactly which notice to look for if a date moves.
How to use this page. Every date here was checked against the official counselling authority's own website on 19 August 2026. State authorities extend and revise deadlines at short notice, sometimes with only a few hours' warning, so treat this page as a starting point and confirm the current date on the official portal before you pay any fee. Orchid Education Foundation is an independent admission guidance firm. We are not an agent of any counselling authority, we cannot influence any allotment, and no seat in India can be obtained without a valid NEET UG 2026 score.
Questions Parents Ask Us
17 August 2026. The prospectus and the online application went live on 27 July 2026 at www.neigrihms.gov.in, under the MBBS Course 2026-2027 link marked for domicile of the North Eastern Region. The application costs ₹500 to process. An incomplete application is summarily rejected and the prospectus states that no correspondence will be entertained on the point.
Meghalaya 14, Nagaland 10, NE Open 18 — covering all eight North Eastern states including Sikkim — and 8 on a common All India basis. The prospectus notes that these figures can change on directions from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, so treat the matrix as current rather than permanent.
The 18 NE Open seats, in practice. The Meghalaya and Nagaland quotas are closed to candidates from other states, so for an applicant from Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh or Sikkim, the NE Open pool is effectively the whole competition, decided strictly on NEET UG 2026 score and percentile against every other eligible applicant from all eight states. Meghalaya and Nagaland applicants compete for their own quotas first and are also considered under NE Open.
First-year fees total ₹47,600 per the prospectus — ₹10,000 admission fee, ₹1,000 university enrolment and registration, ₹3,000 annual tuition, ₹2,000 library, ₹3,000 laboratory, ₹5,000 hostel, ₹2,600 combined for sports, magazine, cultural, health care and students' body fees, and a ₹20,000 refundable security deposit. Mess fees of ₹10,950 are deposited separately at admission and then quarterly.
Every selected candidate signs a bond on stamp paper at admission. If you leave the course without completing it, the bond amount is ₹10,00,000 — ten lakh rupees. It is not paid upfront; it is a financial commitment tied to finishing the degree. Families should understand this clause before accepting a seat, not after. It is one of the reasons we sit down with parents rather than just sending a link.
22 August 2026 (Saturday), in hybrid mode — both online via video conference and physical attendance at the institute. This was fixed by a notice dated 11 August 2026, partially modifying Point 11.iii of the prospectus, which had left the date to be announced separately. Candidates attending online must join a mandatory mock drill on 21 August 2026 (Friday) from 3:00 PM onwards, to test the video conferencing link before the real thing. The links for both the mock drill and the counselling itself are shared in a separate notification uploaded after the application deadline of 17 August 2026 — check neigrihms.gov.in regularly rather than waiting for an email.
No. Admission for candidates appearing online is explicitly provisional, subject to verification of original documents and completion of other admission formalities, which the notice requires to be finished on or before 28 August 2026. Physical attendees complete verification the same day as counselling; online attendees have this separate window afterward to travel to Shillong and confirm the seat in person. Do not treat online selection alone as a secured seat until that verification is done.
8 September 2026, per the same 11 August notice. That gives roughly two weeks between the outer edge of document verification (28 August) and the start of classes — plan travel and hostel arrangements inside that window, not after.
NEIGRIHMS Is 50 Seats
for Eight States. Have a Plan B.
Apply to NEIGRIHMS — and while the list is awaited, let us line up realistic backup options so you are not starting from zero in September. Free, and we will be straight with you about your chances.