State medical councils

One page for each state medical council on the National Medical Commission's list — its own forms, fees and timelines.

NMC has issued guidelines on ethical advertising and public communication

On 6 October 2026 the National Medical Commission’s Ethics and Medical Registration Board issued a public notice, framed in view of a writ petition before the Supreme Court of India and the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, informing registered medical practitioners and other stakeholders of Guidelines on Ethical Advertising and Public Communication by Hospitals, Medical Institutions and Registered Medical Practitioners. The notice states that the guidelines come into force with immediate effect. A page compiled from the guidelines has not been written yet; the notice is linked below.

Source: NMC public notice on ethical advertising, 6 October 2026

Registration is national in principle and local in practice. The National Medical Commission sets the rules; the council of the state you register in decides what you fill in, what you enclose and what you pay. Those three things differ from state to state, and each council publishes them — when it publishes them at all — only on its own site.

A page appears here once that council’s own documents have been read and dated. They are being compiled in order of the number of doctors on each register, as reported by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Several of the largest councils have moved to portals that publish nothing a reader can check without logging in, so they are taking longer than their size would suggest.

Where a council does not publish something — a fee, a renewal period, a list of enclosures — that field is left visibly empty rather than filled from anywhere else.

Uttar Pradesh Medical CouncilUttar Pradesh Medical Council fees from its own site: permanent registration ₹3,000, provisional ₹1,500, additional qualification ₹1,500, good standing certificate ₹2,000, plus foreign-graduate rates and renewal.Verified September 2026
Kerala State Medical CouncilRegistering as a doctor in Kerala: the Kerala State Medical Council, the 2021 Act that replaced the Travancore-Cochin Act, its separate register for each system of medicine, and its published fees.Verified September 2026
Gujarat Medical CouncilRegistering with the Gujarat Medical Council: provisional, permanent and foreign-graduate registration, good standing and NOC certificates, the documents its form asks for, and the online portal.Verified September 2026

Where each council stands

On the National Medical Commission's list 3 of 29 published

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published being compiled

Councils as listed on State Medical Councils, read 22 September 2026. NMC's list is undated. A state or union territory missing from it is not shown until its council is confirmed from that council's own documents.