Rajasthan boy tops NEET, Barnala’s Keshav seventh

7 from Punjab, 2 from Haryana, 1 from Chandigarh successful apical 100

Rajasthan’s Mahesh Kumar secured All-India Rank 1 portion Utkarsh Awadhiya from Madhya Pradesh bagged the 2nd fertile successful the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2025, whose results were declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) connected Saturday.

Among females, Avika Aggarwal from Delhi (NCT) topped the aesculapian entranceway exam by bagging the 5th rank. Barnala's Keshav Mittal and Karnal's Arsh Gandhi made their respective states arrogant by securing AIR 7 and 11, respectively. The database of 100 toppers see 14 from Delhi, 11 from Rajasthan, 7 from Punjab, 2 from Haryana and 1 from Chandigarh.

A full of 22.09 lakh candidates took the NEET(UG) connected May 4, of which 12.36 lakh qualified the exam -- 7.2 lakh females and 5.14 lakh males. Among the qualifying candidates are 529 overseas nationals, 405 NRIs and 606 OCI paper holders.

The highest fig of qualified candidates are from Uttar Pradesh (over 1.70 lakh), followed by Maharashtra (1.25 lakh) and Rajasthan (1.19 lakh). Of the 28,407 students from Punjab who appeared successful the aesculapian entranceway exam, 16,104 qualified, a marginal summation from past year’s fig of 15,707.

There are 1.08 lakh MBBS seats disposable successful the state and of these, 56,000 are successful authorities colleges and 52,000 successful backstage ones. In Delhi, determination are 1,092 aesculapian seats successful 7 authorities aesculapian colleges.

NEET was past twelvemonth plagued by respective allegations of irregularities, including insubstantial leaks, and litigation, UGC-NET was cancelled aft reports that the integrity of the exam had been compromised. Both matters are being probed by the CBI. The Centre had successful July past twelvemonth acceptable up a sheet to guarantee transparent, creaseless and just behaviour of examinations by NTA.