Preferential Reservation Category: 622 MBBS and BDS Seats Filled for Government School Students

A total of 622 seats, including 496 MBBS and 126 BDS seats, were filled under the 7.5% preferential reservation for government school candidates at the in-person counselling held on Thursday. 

The medical education officials were continually advising students to follow their parents’ advice during the counselling. As with the counselling for engineering seats, students sometimes made wrong choices, an official explained.

A student had chosen a college in a different district while there were seats available in the medical college in his own district. “He later came to us with a request to change his college. We are helpless,” the official said recalling an incident from a previous batch.

The selection committee has allocated 212 MBBS seats under the differently-abled persons category and 11 BDS seats. All the eight seats (seven for MBBS and 1 for BDS) in sports category and 10 MBBS and 1 seat in BDS for wards of ex-servicemen were also filled.

Health Minister Ma. Subramanian, who distributed the allotment orders, gave details of the number of seats for students under the preferential reservation category for government school candidates.

*Source: Directorate of Medical Education  

Under the 7.5% preferential category 565 candidates have been waitlisted. Seven candidates in the sports category and 19 candidates in the ex-servicemen category are waitlisted. A total of 74 seats in the persons with disability category were filled, officials said.

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