Maharashtra NEET UG Counselling 2026 now has a dedicated official State CET Cell portal and an indexed Notice No. 03 for MBBS/BDS CAP registration. The official Maharashtra CAP 2026–27 page routes NEET-UG candidates to medical2026.mahacet.org. Current major-media reporting says registration opened on August 6 and runs to August 12, but the official Notice No. 03 PDF is intermittently timing out, so this article separates what is directly confirmed from dates that still need line-by-line primary-source extraction.
Direct answer
Where is the official Maharashtra NEET UG 2026 registration portal?
Use the State CET Cell’s 2026 medical admission portal at medical2026.mahacet.org/NEET-UG-2026/login. The central Maharashtra CAP page links directly to this NEET-UG portal.
Current status
Registration is being reported as open
Major education outlets report an August 6 opening and August 12 deadline for MBBS/BDS registration. The controlling official portal and Notice No. 03 have been located, but the notice PDF could not be fully fetched during the latest verification pass.
Confirmed
- The Maharashtra State CET Cell has a dedicated NEET-UG 2026 medical admission portal.
- The official CAP 2026–27 page links directly to that portal.
- The portal currently indexes Notice No. 03 — Registration Schedule for MBBS and BDS (Group A) Courses.
- The portal also indexes Notice No. 04 on NRI candidate eligibility and registration.
Reported — primary text extraction incomplete
- Registration opened August 6, 2026.
- The registration deadline is August 12, 2026.
- Detailed Round 1 dates are circulating in media, but they should not be treated as fully verified here until the official schedule PDF is successfully extracted.
Table of contents
Maharashtra NEET UG Counselling 2026 official registration link
The most important practical issue is finding the correct portal. Maharashtra’s central CET Cell website no longer keeps every 2026–27 CAP notice on one generic page. Instead, it tells candidates to use course-specific admission portals.
On the official CAP 2026–27 page, Medical Education → Undergraduate Courses → NEET-UG links to the dedicated 2026 medical portal.
What is Notice No. 03?
Search indexing from the official medical2026.mahacet.org domain identifies the current controlling document as Notice No. 03 — NEET-UG-2026 Registration Schedule for Centralized Admission Process (CAP) for MBBS and BDS (Group A) Courses.
The official PDF URL has been located, but repeated direct fetch attempts timed out during this verification pass. Because of that, this article does not invent or reconstruct unextracted schedule rows from secondary websites.
What is the Maharashtra NEET UG 2026 registration deadline?
Current major-media coverage reports that Maharashtra NEET UG 2026 MBBS/BDS registration opened on August 6 and closes on August 12. This matches the live timing of the newly indexed official Notice No. 03, but the exact official closing time has not yet been independently extracted from the PDF.
Deadline caution
Treat August 12 as the current reported deadline, but do not assume a closing time such as 11:59 PM unless the live portal or official notice displays it. Candidates should complete registration early rather than waiting for the final day.
Maharashtra counselling and MCC Round 1 are separate
Maharashtra state counselling and MCC national counselling are different processes. Registering on MCC does not automatically register a candidate for Maharashtra CAP, and using the Maharashtra medical portal does not complete MCC counselling.
If you are participating in the national counselling route and are unsure what filled, saved, manually locked or system-locked choices mean, read ThePulseSignal’s evergreen guide to MCC choice filling and locking.
For the current national Round 1 dates and live 2026 status, use ThePulseSignal’s NEET UG 2026 Round 1 choice filling guide, which tracks the MCC schedule separately.
What Maharashtra candidates should do now
1. Use the official course portal
Start from the State CET Cell CAP 2026–27 page or the dedicated medical2026.mahacet.org NEET-UG login page.
2. Complete registration early
Do not wait for the final reported deadline while the portal and notice system are still being updated.
3. Save every acknowledgement
Keep application, payment and upload confirmations separately.
4. Watch the portal for merit-list updates
The same canonical page should be checked for the registered-candidate list, provisional merit list and seat matrix.
5. Do not confuse registration with preference filling
Choice/preference entry is a later CAP stage and should only be treated as open when CET Cell activates it. Maharashtra’s state preference process should also not be assumed to use the same rules as MCC choice filling and locking.
6. Recheck before every deadline
Use the course-specific portal because Maharashtra has explicitly moved CAP updates there for 2026–27.
NRI candidates should check Notice No. 04 separately
The official Maharashtra medical portal also indexes Notice No. 04 regarding NRI Candidate Eligibility and Registration Process. Candidates applying through an NRI route should not assume that the general registration notice alone contains every NRI requirement.
For MCC’s separate national sponsor/relationship rules, see ThePulseSignal’s NEET 2026 NRI quota sponsor eligibility guide. Maharashtra’s state rules must still be checked independently.
Official sources
- Maharashtra State CET Cell CAP 2026–27
- Maharashtra NEET-UG 2026 medical admission portal
- Official Notice No. 03 — MBBS/BDS registration schedule
- Official Notice No. 04 — NRI candidate eligibility and registration
How this was verified
ThePulseSignal checked the Maharashtra State CET Cell’s official CAP 2026–27 page. The page was updated on August 6 and directly links Medical Education → NEET-UG to the dedicated 2026 medical admission portal.
Search indexing on the official medical2026.mahacet.org domain was then used to identify Notice No. 03 for MBBS/BDS CAP registration and Notice No. 04 for NRI candidate eligibility. Repeated direct attempts to fetch the portal and Notice No. 03 timed out, so the notice body was not treated as fully extracted.
Current major-media reporting was used only to corroborate the reported August 6–12 registration window. Exact schedule details beyond what could be directly established from official surfaces are not presented as confirmed.
Last verified: August 7, 2026, approximately 4:32 PM IST.
Limitations and unresolved facts
- The official Notice No. 03 PDF has been located but could not be fully fetched during the latest verification pass.
- The exact official registration closing time is therefore unresolved.
- Detailed merit-list, seat-matrix, preference-filling, Round 1 selection and joining dates should be added only after direct extraction from the official schedule.
- The article does not assume that all Maharashtra health-science courses share the MBBS/BDS Group A schedule.
- Portal availability can change quickly; candidates should recheck the live course-specific portal.
- MCC choice-filling and locking rules should not be applied automatically to Maharashtra state CAP; the two counselling systems use separate official workflows.
Frequently asked questions
What is the official Maharashtra NEET UG 2026 counselling website?
The official 2026 medical portal is medical2026.mahacet.org/NEET-UG-2026/login, linked from the State CET Cell CAP 2026–27 page.
Has Maharashtra NEET UG 2026 registration started?
Current major-media reporting says registration opened on August 6. The official portal and Notice No. 03 are live/indexed.
What is the registration deadline?
August 12 is the current reported deadline, but the exact official closing time has not yet been independently extracted from Notice No. 03.
Is Maharashtra counselling the same as MCC counselling?
No. Maharashtra state CAP and MCC national counselling are separate registration and allotment processes. Candidates using MCC can separately review our MCC choice filling and locking guide for the national preference workflow.
Is preference filling open now?
This article does not mark preference filling as open unless the official Maharashtra portal explicitly activates that stage.
Where should NRI candidates check the Maharashtra rule?
The official medical portal indexes Notice No. 04 specifically for NRI candidate eligibility and registration.