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Thirty-seven candidates moved out of the ST quota, nine MBBS allotments cancelled: Telangana's September 2026 ST eligibility check, and a community's call to probe 117 SC-1 certificates
In Telangana, MBBS and BDS seats under the Competent Authority Quota are allotted by Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), with reservation by category. In September 2026 the university showed that category eligibility is checked after allotment as well as before it, and that an allotted seat can be taken away.
According to Telangana Today (27 September 2026), KNRUHS withdrew Scheduled Tribe reservation benefits from 37 NEET-UG 2026 candidates for 2026-27, acting on verification reports from the Director of Tribal Welfare, which found them ineligible under migration rules. It cited Supreme Court rulings on interstate migration and High Court rulings on people who moved from Andhra Pradesh before bifurcation; the notification said reservation benefits stay with the "state of origin rather than the state of migration". Medical Dialogues (28 September) reported that the notice listed the 37 by roll number, rank, name and gender; nine had received conditional MBBS allotments in the first or second counselling phase, and those allotments were cancelled. All 37 would be treated as Open Category candidates "subject to their eligibility and merit", and the nine seats would go to the third or mop-up phase.
The same day, Medical Dialogues reported a separate demand for scrutiny of Scheduled Caste-1 certificates. Leaders of the Beda (Budga) Jangam community asked the state government to inquire into the certificates of about 117 SC-1 candidates who had qualified in NEET-UG 2026, and to postpone the third round until verification was complete. They alleged that at least 20 of the 58 SC-1 candidates admitted in the first two rounds had submitted fake certificates from tahsildar offices in Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts, and cited candidates listed as SC-2 or SC-3 in 2025 who appeared as SC-1 in 2026. One association leader was quoted, via Deccan Chronicle, as saying "a racket was operating in Hyderabad to obtain fake SC1 caste certificates for ineligible candidates". The report presented these as allegations and recorded no response from the government or KNRUHS.
Two different failures, one result. The ST cancellations were about eligibility rules for families who migrated, not forgery, yet the candidate still lost a seat after allotment. The SC-1 allegations, if borne out, describe the older route: a certificate issued by a local revenue office, questioned only when a community organisation compared names and ranks across two years.
For a student the lesson is that a reservation certificate must be valid in the state where it is claimed. If your family moved from another state, establish the rule before counselling, not after an allotment. Never buy a certificate: an agent offering to arrange one is offering a seat that a single letter from a welfare department can cancel.
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