Telangana govt prioritizes local students for non-allopathy health sciences admissions

A order to this effect has been released to health varsity Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS).

Hyderabad: In a major step taken to ensure local students from Telangana get preference in admissions in PG and UG courses related to courses in non-allopathy health sciences, the State government on Saturday has allocated all competent authority seats (convener quota) to local candidates.

A order to this effect has been released to health varsity Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS).

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The order from the State government will now allow KNRUHS to conduct fresh rounds of counselling (if needed) to fill-up all competent authority quota seats with local students, who might have missed out in earlier rounds of counselling, in Post-Graduate and UG courses of different medical streams including AYUSH (Indian medicine), B.Sc Nursing, P B B.Sc (Nursing), Allied Health Sciences, PG Paramedical courses and similar other courses available for diploma students.

The State government’s decision will go a long way in strengthening allied health care services in hospitals. Two years ago, the State government had issued orders allocating all competent authority quota seats to local candidates in MBBS/BDS and PG courses in medical and dental colleges, which have been established after statehood.

Recently, the Telangana government also received a green signal from the High Court over providing first preference to local students in Telangana while allocating MBBS/BDS and PG medical seats. Following the Court’s, the State government released a similar order for non-allopathy medical courses like AYUSH, MD in Homeo, nursing etc.