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Eligibility for Vacant Seats in Telangana Medical Counselling

Saptarshi Ghosh • 4 Mins read • 6 Jun 25

As an MBBS aspirant residing in Telangana, you must know about the counselling process. After checking your result, you need to go through the Telangana Medical counselling process for securing a seat in your preferred medical college in Telangana.

But to complete this entire process successfully, you need to have clear knowledge about the eligibility criteria for Telangana vacant seats. The special ‘Stray Vacancy’ round of the Telangana NEET counselling 2025 process gives medical aspirants an extra opportunity to secure a seat.

In this blog, we are going to have a look at the detailed eligibility criteria for the NEET counselling procedure of Telangana. Along with this, the tentative Stray Vacancy Round dates, procedure of applying for the vacant seats, required documents, and tips for maximizing your chances will be discussed.

Eligibility Criteria for Telangana Stray Vacancy Round

Eligibility	Details
Qualification	Must clear 10+2 exams with the stream of Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology 50% marks in 10+2 exam NEET will have to be cleared with the required state cutoff and percentile
Registration Criteria	You need to be registered to Telangana NEET Counselling 2025
Seat Status	If you do not get any allotment in the initial two main rounds, or If you surrender your seats before the deadline, then you are eligible for this round
Domicile	You need to be domiciled in Telangana state
Category	Open to all (General Unreserved, SC, ST, OBC, EWS)
NRI	If you are an NRI, then you need to follow the special guidelines for NRI candidates of KNRUHS

Tentative Stray Vacancy Round Dates in Telangana

Events	Tentative Dates
Notification for Stray Vacancy	September or October 2025
Registration Process	September or October 2025
Fee Payment	September or October 2025
Filling of Choices	September or October 2025
Result of Seat Allotment	September or October 2025
Reporting to the allotted medical college	Within the 2 or 3 days of getting the allotment

Application Procedure

To secure a spot for you among the Telangana MBBS Vacant Seats, you need to know the detailed application procedure. This is discussed in the table below:

Particulars	Details
Eligibility Checking	You need to visit the official portal of KNRUHS and go through the eligibility criteria for Stray Vacancy sincerely.
Online Registration	You are required to register yourself on that portal for online counselling
Fee Payment	You need to pay the fee as per your chosen category
Allotment of Seat	Based on your rank, your seat will be allotted to you in any suitable medical college in Telangana.
Visit to the allotted college	After receiving the notification letter, you need to visit your allotted college

Required Documents

After the Mop-Up round of Telangana Counselling, the stray vacancy round is conducted to fill up the vacant seats. Therefore, it will open up the opportunity for the students who will not join after the seat allotment and who will withdraw their admission in the previous rounds.

The required documents are:

Admit card of NEET 2025
Scorecard of NEET 2025
KEA Registration Slip
Letter of Allotment
10 and 10+2 Marksheets
Category Certificate
Telangana Domicile Certificate
Receipt of the Paid Fees
Passport-size Photographs

Tips for Maximizing your Chances

Frequently checking the official website and the portal of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences.
Checking out all the rules for counselling
Properly analysing the cutoffs of the colleges
Checking the last year's Closing Rank of the colleges
Understanding the Seat Matrix
Considering all the options of the quota
Verifying documents

FAQs

1: Who is eligible for the Vacant Seats in Telangana Medical Counselling 2025?

Candidates who have cleared the NEET 2025 exam and have not joined the allotted colleges in the initial rounds of counselling

2: Is fresh registration for Stray Vacancy Rounds allowed?

Yes, you can have fresh registrations or Stray Vacancy rounds

3: Are the candidates from outside Telangana eligible for this?

Yes, the preference for 85% of the total seats will be there for domiciled students in Telangana

4: Can any student participate in this if he/she withdrew his/her previous seat allotments?

Yes, of course. You will be allowed.

5: Can any student take part if he/she joined any college in another state?

No, you first need to withdraw that, and after that, you can join.