Mumbai: Maharashtra has added 1,066 postgraduate medical seats over the past year, including 720 in govt medical colleges in the past five weeks, taking the state’s total broad speciality PG medical intake to 7,615 for the 2026-27 academic year. With this increase of 16.3% over last year’s 6,549 seats, Maharashtra has secured the second position nationally, second only to Karnataka , which has 8,862 seats.
At Govt Medical College, Aurangabad, physiology seats have risen from three to 21 and biochemistry seats from two to 17. Pathology seats at Indira Gandhi Govt Medical College, Nagpur, have increased from four to 15. Community medicine seats at Aurangabad have gone up from 12 to 22, while anaesthesiology seats at Kolhapur have risen from four to 14.
The increase has been spread across several specialities, including general medicine, general surgery, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, radiodiagnosis, pathology, orthopaedics and obstetrics and gynaecology, besides pre-clinical and para-clinical subjects. Some colleges have recorded substantial increases in individual disciplines.