Delhi MBBS counselling: round-by-round exit rules

Delhi confuses people because it has no counselling website of its own. A Delhi-domicile student looking for a state portal will not find one. The 85% Delhi quota for the city's central colleges is run by the MCC at mcc.nic.in, under the same rules as the All India Quota. So the mechanics are the AIQ mechanics, and the only Delhi-specific layer is who counts as a Delhi candidate.

This page covers the MCC-run Delhi stream: Delhi University colleges (Maulana Azad, UCMS, Lady Hardinge) and the central institutes affiliated to GGS Indraprastha University (VMMC & Safdarjung, ABVIMS & RML, ESIC Dental). The wider GGSIPU state counselling, run by IPU itself, is a separate process with its own brochure.

Who runs it

The MCC conducts both the 15% All India Quota and the 85% institutional quota for these central colleges. There is no Delhi state authority in this stream; everything happens on mcc.nic.in under the MCC bulletin.

Security deposit, by category

The deposit is the standard MCC central-university slab, halved for reserved categories.

There is no separate ₹50,000 deposit for VMMC or ABVIMS, despite figures of that kind circulating. The 2025 bulletin lists only the slab above for this registration.

How the rounds work

Identical to the All India Quota, because the same authority runs both. Round 1 is a free look: report and freeze, report and upgrade, or skip without losing the deposit. Round 2 ends the free look, forfeiting the deposit for a fresh allotment you do not join, and moving an upgraded candidate to the new seat with no return to the old one. Round 3 mop-up reopens registration, closes upgrades, and makes an allotment compulsory. The stray round fills the last seats. The stray-round non-joining penalty is deposit forfeiture and removal from remaining rounds, not a NEET exam ban — that postgraduate rumour does not apply to MBBS or BDS.

Reservation and eligibility

Who is a Delhi candidate. The 85% quota needs Class 11 and 12 (the 10+2) studied and passed from a school in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Domicile is established through schooling, not just residence.

Reservation. Central policy applies on the 85% state seats: SC 15%, ST 7.5%, OBC non-creamy-layer 27%, EWS 10%, and PwD 5% as a horizontal quota. On top of these, the Delhi central colleges carry a 5% horizontal quota for Children and Widows of Armed Forces personnel (CW) on the state-quota seats. The reservation is the same across Delhi University colleges and the IPU central institutes in this stream.

A common mix-up. Quotas you may have read about for the wider IP University colleges, such as a single-girl-child reservation, belong to IPU's own counselling, not the MCC stream described here. If you are targeting the broader GGSIPU seats outside these central institutes, read IPU's brochure separately.

What this means for your choices

Plan Delhi inside your MCC choice list, not as a separate exercise, because it is the same counselling. The deposit, the rounds and the penalties are the AIQ ones. Your only Delhi-specific homework is the schooling-based domicile proof and, if it applies, the armed-forces CW certificate. Everything else follows the All India Quota playbook.