: At least 300 meritorious students from Telangana will lose an opportunity to pursue MBBS in their own state due to the last minute change in the definition of who a ‘local’ is, by the health, medical and family welfare department. Parents of these students have formed a WhatsApp group and are planning to approach the High Court against the new rule. “Our concern is that the students of this soil cannot pursue MBBS here or elsewhere because they are non-locals in other states also.
All we are saying is that the government should have made an announcement on the new definition of local category well in advance before the AP Reorganisation Act ceased to exist on June 2 this year,” N. Gopalakrishna, a parent, told . Though the Congress government successfully prevented the entry of students from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions from this academic year by scrapping the 15 per cent unreserved category, students born and brought up in Telangana but who studied intermediate outside will be badly hit because of the amendment in the local category definition.
However, health minister C. Damodar Rajanarsimha on Tuesday made it clear that there would not be any change in the definition of local category and admissions would be made in accordance with the GO Ms No, 33. The department brought the GO on July 19 but it came to light only on Saturday when the Kaloji University of Health Sciences issued the notification for MBBS admissions.
The minister also dismissed allegations of BR.