No counselling for PG med now: Govt assures Telangana HC

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has adjourned to November 25 the hearing of a batch of petitions challenging the state's domicile rules for NEET PG admissions. On Monday, the state government and Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences assured the court that they would not start counselling for postgraduate medical admissions until that date and would refrain from publishing any merit lists in the interim.

Advocate general A. Sudarsan Reddy, representing the state and the university, submitted to the High Court that counselling for PG medical admissions would not proceed until next week. This assurance led the Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J. Sreenivas Rao, to adjourn the petitions filed by MBBS graduates contesting the local candidate rules.

The petitions challenge the new norms introduced by the state through GO MS No. 148, which redefined the eligibility criteria for postgraduate medical admissions. According to the revised rules, students who completed their schooling outside Telangana are deemed ineligible for PG counseling in the state, even if they obtained their MBBS degrees from institutions within Telangana.