WB NEET UG Medical Dental Counselling 2026: Urgent Notice for Candidates Who Registered as NRI by Mistake

The Directorate of Medical Education, West Bengal, has issued an urgent notice addressing a specific registration error affecting Round 1 of WB UG Medical Dental Counselling 2026 - candidates who registered themselves as NRI during online registration but did not go on to fill their choices as NRI accordingly. If this describes your situation, there's a specific, narrow window and process to correct it, and it's worth understanding exactly how it works before assuming the mistake can be fixed at any point later in the cycle.

What's Officially Confirmed

Per Memo No. HFW-23099/320/2026/M/2237, dated August 27, 2026, issued by the Director of Medical Education and Chairman of WBMCC:

• The problem: candidates who registered as NRI candidates during Round 1 online registration, but who did not subsequently fill their choices as NRI, due to an inadvertent mistake.

• The remedy: affected candidates must email a signed request letter, in PDF format, addressed to the Director of Medical Education, Swasthya Bhavan, requesting that their previously submitted registration details be initialised (reset).

• Where to send it: only to wbnricounseling2025@gmail.com — and the notice is explicit that this mail is accepted only from the email ID mentioned in the candidate's NEET exam application, not any other email address.

• What resetting allows: once approved, the candidate can freshly resubmit their registration details, pay fresh counselling fees, pay the required security deposit as specified in the Notice cum Information Bulletin, and download the candidate profile letter for allotment of a verification centre.

• When this takes effect: the reset and fresh submission facility is applicable only from the next round onward — it doesn't retroactively fix anything within the current round.

• When this stops being available: this facility is explicitly not available in the Stray Vacancy round or any round after that.

• The submission window itself: request emails are accepted only during the dates of the Round 1 admission process of WB NEET UG Medical Dental Counselling 2026 — specifically the same round in which the inadvertent mistake was made.

Who This Actually Affects

This notice is narrow by design - it applies specifically to candidates who made a category mismatch between their registration and their choice-filling, ending up registered as NRI without actually filling NRI-category choices. If you registered correctly and filled choices consistently with your registered category, this notice doesn't apply to you. If you're unsure whether your own registration and choice-filling are aligned, it's worth checking your submitted details directly on the WBMCC portal rather than assuming everything matches.

What to Do If This Applies to You

Act within the Round 1 admission process window specifically — the notice is clear that requests are accepted only during the dates tied to the round in which the mistake occurred, not at any later, more convenient time. Send your signed PDF request letter only from the email address on record with your NEET exam application, since mail from any other address won't be accepted. Once your registration is reset, you'll need to resubmit your details, pay fresh counselling fees and the security deposit again, and download your candidate profile letter for your verification centre — budget both time and funds for this fresh submission rather than assuming the reset alone completes the fix. Most importantly, understand that this correction path disappears entirely once counselling reaches the Stray Vacancy round, so treat this as a now-or-not-at-all situation rather than something to defer.

If you're unfamiliar with the broader Round 1 structure this notice sits within, our full breakdown of WBMCC's Round 1 schedule and our general guide to how West Bengal's counselling framework works are worth reviewing alongside this specific correction process, so you understand exactly where in the sequence this reset actually applies.

Key Things to Remember

WBMCC has opened a narrow correction window for candidates who registered as NRI in Round 1 but didn't fill NRI-category choices, requiring a signed PDF request from the candidate's registered NEET application email to wbnricounseling2025@gmail.com. Approval allows a fresh registration resubmission, fresh fee and security deposit payment, and a new candidate profile letter — but only from the next round onward, and only if the request is submitted within the Round 1 admission process window itself. This facility is permanently unavailable from the Stray Vacancy round onward, which makes prompt action the only real option for anyone affected.

This information is based on the official WBMCC Memo No. HFW-23099/320/2026/M/2237, dated August 27, 2026. Always verify current requirements and deadlines directly with the Directorate of Medical Education, West Bengal, since this is a time-bound correction facility with no provision for later rounds.