The Ministry of Education has made Aadhaar and a newly added feature of One Time Registration (OTR) mandatory for application on the National Scholarship Portal, NSP w.e.f the year 2024-25. The Centre has also issued instructions to the nodal officers to sensitise students and parents regarding how to apply afresh for the National Means-cum-merit Scholarships NMMSS and use another new feature of Grievance Redressal Mechanism GRM on the portal.

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The call also asked state and UT nodal officers, including SNOs, to give the parents, teachers and students orientation on how to register through OTR for fresh and renewal cases, as the NSP hosts various state-level scholarship schemes. “The SNOs were also asked to educate parents on the registration of the correct name and spelling of the child and their parent’s name and details in the school records as well as in the Aadhaar registry to avoid mismatch at a later stage on NSP,” the school department added.

Aadhaar & Complaint Redressal

While apprising the officers about the features of the Aadhaar payment bridge introduced last year, the director of the DBT Mission, Devendra Kumar said that the payment module in the NSP-NIC is triggered after sanity check. Under the scholarship schemes, the school education department makes disbursement of the scholarships directly through DBT into the account of the beneficiaries. The government officials also sought feedback and suggestions on the grievance redressal system from the states and UTs.

Bio-authentication

It has another added facility of application-based bio-authentication for both students and nodal officers. Underscoring that bio-authentication is instead of demographic authentication, the director of UIDAI said that the amount of scholarship is disbursed only to those accounts that are seeded by Aadhaar at the time of registration and the beneficiary can check his or her Aadhaar seeding status from the NPCI and PFMS portals.

NMMSS Eligibility, amount of scholarship, portal

The objective of the scheme is to provide NMMSS scholarships to meritorious EWS students of Class 8 for further studies. MoE sanctions one lakh fresh scholarships to the selected students from Class 9 every year and renews scholarships for those in classes 10, 11 and 12 of the state government, government-aided and local body schools. It is Rs 12, 000 per annum.

The students whose family income from all sources is not more than Rs 3,50,000 per annum are eligible to avail of the scholarships. They must have obtained a minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade, relaxable by 5% for SC, and ST students, in the Class 7 examination to appear in the selection test for the award of a scholarship conducted by the states/UTs every year. While the students register at NSP, the amount of the scholarship is transferred directly into the bank account of the selected students by DBT via electronic transfer through PFMS.

Dates for commencement of  NEET PG 2025 registration became a subject of discussions in the recent times.

Now the announcement has been made with regards to application schedule of the exam. Exam will be conducted on 15 June 2025 and result will be released by 15 July 2025.

Date of the exam

A circular did rounds recently which said the NEET PG 2025 exam date was changed to 17 August 2025.

It is to note that NBEMS, the authority conducting NEET PG exam in a notification mentioned earlier that NEET PG 2025 will be conducted on 15 June.

It is also to note that no notification regarding change in exam date for NEET PG 2025 has come out from the authorities who conduct the exam.

This only means the exam will likely be conducted on date said earlier (15 June 2025).

NEET PG 2025 Registration Information Bulletin

NEET PG 2025 Registration information bulletin is the document which has all the information regarding the exam and its application process.

NEET PG 2025 registration information bulletin shall be made available at NBEMS website
‘https://natboard.edu.in/viewnbeexam?exam=neetpg’ on 17 April 2025 by 3 PM.

Students who wish to study postgraduation in medicine can aim for the NEET PG 2025 registration. They can refer NEET PG 2025 registration information bulletin as to how go about registering for the exam.

Taking that into account, it could mean, the NEET PG 2025 registration will likely be opened in the last phase of March or first, second or third phase of April 2025.

Now NEET PG 2025 registration will commence on 17 April 2025 which is the third part of April month in 2025.

What is NEET PG?

NEET PG is expanded into National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test Post Graduate, it is conducted once every year for providing admission into postgraduate medical courses in colleges located across India.

NEET PG 2025 is meant to be held in 2025 and is conducted by National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS). NEET PG 2025 registration nothing but applying for the exam.

NEET PG 2025 registration eligibility

NEET PG 2025 registration eligibility is the criteria the applicants must fulfill to be eligible to apply for the exam. As per NEET PG 2025 registration eligibility criteria, candidates who have passed graduation in medicine from a recognized educational institution anywhere in India can take up NEET PG 2025 registration.

Applicants must also have completed the required internship (CRI or CRRI) and have the required registration with NMC/Erstwhile MCI or State Medical Councils, as per NEET PG 2025 registration eligibility criteria.

1. The URL mentioned above must be typed into the browser and submitted to allow the website to download.

2. Once the website is ready, candidates can click the button NEET PG under Entrance Examinations menu.

3. Clicking the above button will open another webpage with URL ‘https://natboard.edu.in/viewnbeexam?exam=neetpg’

4. Once the webpage with above URL opens, candidates can click the registration link and create an account.

5. After the account is created, candidates can log in and commence NEET PG 2025 registration process, that is filling the application form.

NEET PG 2025 registration link available here

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NEET PG 2025 Registration fee

NEET PG 2025 fee is the amount applicants have to pay while applying for the exam. NEET PG 2025 registration fee to pay is Rs 4250 if applicants are from General, OBC and EWS categories. The same for those from SC/ST/PwD categories is Rs 3250.

The amount mentioned above can change due to various reasons, candidates can refer the information brochure on the official website mentioned above at the time of registration for latest information.

The link for it will be activated at the appropriate time on the official website. The link will turn active about 10 or 20 days before the exam day. It can be downloaded as per the instructions below:

1. Type the URL ‘https://natboard.edu.in/viewnbeexam?exam=neetpg’ in the browser and submit it for allowing it to download.

2. Once the website is ready, the link for admit card has to be clicked.

3. After clicking the link, candidates have to enter their application number, date of birth and other details and submit them to obtain the hall ticket.

Candidates can appear for the exam with their hall tickets. They have to pass the exam with required qualifying marks to be eligible for the next phase of admission which comprises counselling.

Counselling is the process where candidates can choose the course and the college where they desire to study the program of their choice.