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Published – September 05, 2026 08:31 pm IST – Thiruvananthapuram
The National Medical Commission’s plan to create a National Medical Register (NMR), is running into rough weather again as doctors are questioning why medical practitioners are being made to pay a fee and register again for entry into the NMR when their database is already available with respective State Medical Councils.
The question assumes significance as the Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) is moving to amend the Registration of Medical Practitioners and Licence to Practice Medicine Regulations, 2026.
The NMR is envisaged as a single, reliable national database that would make it easier to verify doctors’ qualifications and registration status and facilitate their practice across State boundaries. The system envisages a unique NMR identification number linked to every doctor’s State registration number.
The dispute now is over how this national database would be created — is it the task of the State Medical Councils to provide the data for the creation of the NMR or should individual doctors have to put in application afresh, pay a fee and then await EMRB’s verification of credentials?
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