Tamil Nadu MBBS / BDS Counselling Procedure 2023
COUNSELLING PROCEDURE
Admission on preferential basis (7.5 percentage) as per the Tamil Nadu Admission
to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Act, 2020 (Tamil Nadu Act No.34 of 2020).
As per the relevant provisions of the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Indian Medicine and Homeopathy on preferential basis to students of Government Schools Act, 2020 (Tamil Nadu Act No.34 of 2020), seven and a half per cent (7.5%) of seats in the admission to M.B.B.S. course and other medical courses, for which the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) is prescribed as the qualifying examination have been set apart, on preferential basis to students of the State Government schools who have qualified in the said Test.
Government seats
(1) all the seats in M.B.B.S., B.D.S., BSMS, BASMS BUMS and BHMS courses in Government Colleges, excluding the seats reserved for all India quota; and
(2) 65 per cent of seats in M.B.B.S., B.D.S., BSMS, BASMS BUMS and BHMS courses in non-minority educational institutions and 50 per cent of seats in minority educational institutions, or the seats as arrived at in accordance with the consensus between such institutions and the Government;
Government Schools
“Government schools” mean and includes Government schools, Corporation schools, Municipal schools, Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare schools, Kallar Reclamation schools, Forest Department schools and other schools managed by Government departments.
“Students studied in Government schools” mean children who have studied from Sixth Standard to Higher Secondary Course in a Government school and qualified in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test
“M.B.B.S., and B.D.S., courses” means the first year of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Dental Surgery.
SELECTION METHOD
The selection will be made based on NEET – UG 2023 score and by Single Window counselling following the rule of reservation by the Government of Tamil Nadu as follows:-
| Open Competition | 31 % |
| Backward Class | 30 % |
| Most Back ward Class | 20 % |
| Scheduled Caste | 18 % |
| Scheduled Tribe | 01 % |
1. Within the 30% reservation for Backward Classes, 3.5% will be provided for Muslims.
2. 16% of seats out of the 18% quota earmarked to Scheduled Caste shall be allocated to the Arunthathiyar Community as per Tamil Nadu Act No.4 of 2009 dated 12.03.2009.
3. Reservation applicable at the time of counselling will be followed.
BC, BCM, MBC / DNC, SC, SCA, and ST candidates are eligible for selection under
Open Competition as per rank in addition to the reservation made for those categories.
a) Any remaining unfilled seats for want of adequate number of eligible candidates
belonging to SCA community shall be filled by candidates belonging to SC community
other than Arunthathiyar as per merit and vice versa.
b) Any remaining reserved seats in ST Quota for want of adequate number of eligible
candidates belonging to ST community shall be allotted to candidates belonging to SC
Community as per merit.
c) Any remaining unfilled seats in BCM Community for want of adequate number of eligible
candidates after exhausting the merit list shall be filled up on merit basis by candidates
belonging to BC community without exceeding the quota for BC community as a whole
d) Even after filling up of the required seats reserved for Arunthathiyars on preferential
basis, if more number of qualified Arunthathiyars are available, such excess number of
candidates of Arunthathiyars shall be entitled to compete with the Scheduled Castes
other than Arunthathiyars in the inter-se merit among them