Following a letter to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, BRS MLA and former Telangana minister T Harish Rao says state officials have ignored a serious crisis in this year’s PG medical admissions.
Rao argues that Telangana students are facing injustice because the state government hasn’t enforced the promised 85 % local reservation in the management quota for postgraduate medical seats. He wants the Chief Minister to scrap the current admission notification and issue a fresh government order that protects Telangana students’ interests.
The problem is clear. Out of 1,801 PG medical seats in Telangana’s medical colleges, 50 are allotted under the All India Quota. Of the state’s 50 seats, 25—about 450 seats—belong to the management quota. Because local reservation is not being applied, all those 450 seats go to candidates from other states. Telangana students lose out on them.
Raj’s letter cites Andhra Pradesh as an example. The neighboring state already gives 85 % of its management seats to local candidates, leaving only 15 % for non‑locals. That system has helped Andhra Pradesh students secure PG seats. Telangana, however, has no such provision, so the 450 management seats are taken by All India candidates. If Telangana follows the Andhra Pradesh model, only 68 of those seats would stay under the All India quota, and a whopping 382 would become available to Telangana students.
During former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s tenure, the state built new district‑wide medical colleges to boost local opportunities. Admission rules were changed to reserve 100 seats for Telangana students in colleges established after June 2, 2014. Rao finds these protections have now been swept aside.
He urges the government to act quickly: “Telangana students are losing out permanently. The state needs to stop sleeping on this issue and enforce local reservation,” he said.
The BRS MLA’s letter highlights a growing concern among Telangana students that without an 85 % local reservation in management quota seats, the state will miss out on over 380 PG medical seats. The issue remains pressing as the Chennai‑based and Andhra‑based examples show how local reservation can safeguard regional prospects in higher medical education.
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