Hyderabad: The State government on Thursday has issued orders reserving medical seats exclusively for children of workers at Singareni Collieries in Ramagundam Medical College.
The Ramagundam Medical College has a total of 150 medical seats out of which 23 MBBS seats are allocated to medical aspirants in all India Quota. Out of the remaining 127 medical seats, 5 per cent i.e. 7 seats have been reserved for children of workers of Singareni Collieries.
The admission for these medical seats will be based on NEET ranks and allocation will also depend on SC/ST and OBC reservations.
For past several years, the Singareni employees have been urging Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao for reserving medical seats for their children. Following these requests, the Chief Minister had directed the health department to provide special reservation for children of Singareni employees.