AIAPGET 2026 PG counselling put on hold on day registration was due

The Ayush Admissions Central Counselling Committee (AACCC) has put postgraduate counselling for Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy courses on hold. In a notice dated Monday, October 26, 2026, the committee said its PG counselling for the 2026-27 session would remain withheld until further notice, citing administrative reasons. The pause came on the same day that round 1 registration for MD and MS seats, filled on the basis of the AIAPGET 2026 entrance exam, had been scheduled to open on aaccc.gov.in. The committee said a revised schedule and the seat matrix would be posted on its website.

AIAPGET, the All India Ayush Post Graduate Entrance Test, is the single gateway to postgraduate study in the four traditional systems of medicine that the Ministry of Ayush oversees. A graduate with a BAMS, BSMS, BUMS or BHMS degree who wants to become a specialist, teach in a college or move into research needs an MD or MS seat, and the central counselling run by AACCC decides who gets the most sought-after of those seats.

The timing is what makes this pause significant. The schedule had been out only a few days, and many candidates were preparing to register and lock their college choices within a week. The committee's own bulletin, issued on October 21, laid out four rounds of counselling for the All India Quota seats. A hold on round 1 pushes every later round back as well, and with it the date on which students actually join their institutes. The original plan had allotted candidates reporting to colleges between November 4 and November 13.

There is also a knock-on effect for the states. Seats in private Ayush colleges and the remaining state quota seats are filled by state and union territory counselling authorities, which usually plan their own rounds around the central one so that seats vacated in one process can be offered in the other. When the central round slips, state schedules often have to be adjusted too.

The committee has not said what the administrative reasons are. Something similar happened in the previous cycle: in October 2025, AACCC withheld the round 2 results of AIAPGET counselling after some participating institutes did not comply with the online reporting process in round 1, and then issued a revised schedule. Whether this year's hold is linked to the seat matrix, institute approvals or another issue is not yet known, and readers should treat any explanation that does not come from AACCC itself with caution.

Short-term: Candidates cannot register or fill choices for round 1 until AACCC publishes a new schedule. Those who had planned travel or paid deposits elsewhere may need to rethink their plans, and coaching bodies and colleges will have to wait for the revised seat matrix.

Long-term: A late start to central counselling can compress the later rounds and delay the start of the PG academic session in Ayush colleges. Repeated holds across two cycles may also prompt questions about how the seat matrix and institute compliance are finalised before schedules are announced.

Who is affected: Qualified AIAPGET 2026 candidates in Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy; government, aided and deemed Ayush colleges and national institutes waiting to fill their PG seats; and state counselling authorities whose rounds depend on the central one.

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