Children of Central government employees who are transferred outside Telangana will now be eligible for “local candidate” status for MBBS and BDS admissions, following an order by the Telangana High Court.
The ruling came in the case of 18-year-old Kodimela Samhitha, who qualified NEET-UG 2026 but studied in Andhra Pradesh after her father, an Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) employee, was transferred from Hyderabad to Tirupati.
A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G M Mohiuddin directed the State to extend the existing exception under the medical and dental admission rules to children of Central government employees.
Student affected by father’s transfer
Samhitha was born in Hyderabad and studied up to Class 4 there. After her father was transferred to Tirupati in December 2016, she completed Classes 5 to 10 and her intermediate education in Andhra Pradesh.
As a result, she could not meet Telangana’s requirement of studying in the State for four consecutive academic years. However, her nativity certificate stated that her father was a Telangana native and that her education outside the State was due to his official transfer.
Samhitha qualified NEET-UG 2026 with 385 marks out of 720 and secured an All-India Rank of 3,10,339 in the general category.
Court expands eligibility
Under Telangana’s medical and dental admission rules, certain students who studied outside the State because of their parents’ government postings are exempted from the usual local-candidate requirements.
These exemptions earlier covered children of Telangana government employees, Telangana-cadre All India Services officers, certain defence personnel and employees of Telangana government corporations and agencies.
Samhitha was excluded because her father worked for ESIC, a Central government organisation.
Her lawyers argued that children of Central government employees should receive the same benefit because their parents’ transfers can similarly force them to continue their education outside Telangana.
State agrees to consider change
The Telangana government told the court that it was considering extending the exception to Central government employees and related organisations.
The High Court therefore directed that, until a formal amendment is issued, the existing rule should also cover children of Central government employees, Central government corporations and Central public sector undertakings who are posted outside Telangana.
The court directed Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences to treat Samhitha as a local candidate for MBBS and BDS admissions under the Competent Authority Quota for the 2026-27 academic year.
The State has also been asked to urgently issue the necessary clarification or amend the rules to formally include these categories.