Today, 7 September 2026, is the first day of the State counselling column for Round-2 of NEET-UG 2026 on the Medical Counselling Committee schedule. The one-page file is headed NEET-UG SCHEDULE- 2026, All India Quota/ Deemed/ Central State Quota. The local PDF carries Word title AIQ and State Schedule Round 2 UG 2026 dated 31.08.2026 (2). CreationDate is Wed Sep 2 08:31:56 2026 UTC, which is 14:01 IST. Live path on the CDN ends 202609021737158592.pdf. The angle here is that 02 September artefact for the State window that opens today, kept separate from the earlier August Round-2 schedule story already on the site.
The table has two main counselling columns under Round-2 of Counselling. All India Quota / Deemed & Central Universities run from 3rd Sept., 2026 to 11th Sept., 2026. State Counselling runs from 7th Sept., 2026 to 11th Sept., 2026. Verification of joined candidates data by MCC is listed for 19th Sept., 2026. Verification of joined candidates data by state DMEs / State Counselling Authorities is also listed for 19th Sept., 2026.
Joining last date and academic session as printed
Last date of Joining is 18th Sept., 2026 in both the AIQ/Deemed/Central column and the State column. Commencement of Academic Session for UG Courses is printed as 15th Sept., 2026. Those two dates sit under the Round-2 block on the same page. The session start is earlier than the joining last date; the schedule prints both without further gloss.
A note at the bottom directs all participating institutes and colleges to treat all Saturdays, Sundays and Gazetted Holidays as working days, for faithful obedience of the time schedule and given the limited time available for conducting counselling. That working-day instruction applies across the printed Round-2 window.
Why the State column matters on 7 September
AIQ / Deemed / Central choice activity in this table began on 3 September. The State column begins today and runs through 11 September. If you are tracking a state counselling authority that follows this MCC AIQ-State frame, 7 to 11 September is the Round-2 State counselling span on this PDF. The file does not list state-by-state portals, fees, or document checklists. It times the national AIQ and State columns, joining, joined-data verification, and the academic session start.
Do not confuse this one-page AIQ-State frame with Notice 19 of 05.09.2026 (new institute seats and a same-day choice-filling pause), or with the three Round-2 vacancy matrix PDFs posted around 03.09.2026. Those files answer different questions: which seats were just added, how clear and virtual vacancies are tabulated, and when choice filling was briefly halted. This schedule answers when Round-2 AIQ and State counselling sit on the calendar.
The earlier live Round-2 schedule piece on this site tracked the late-August activity and joining frame. The body below sticks to the 02.09.2026 AIQ-State PDF and to the State window that opens 7 September 2026.
The State counselling column on 202609021737158592.pdf runs 7th Sept., 2026 to 11th Sept., 2026. Joining last date on that same page is 18th Sept., 2026. Academic session commencement is 15th Sept., 2026. Those three cells, not a vacancy headcount, are the clock for this morning.
