NEET-PG bar hits zero, seats don’t
With Delhi cutting the NEET-PG cut-off to the floor, KNRUHS ran a mop-up in February. A report says even a 1-mark scorer was allotted an MS Orthopaedics seat in Hyderabad. The NBEMS notice makes that math possible; the specific allotment needs the KNRUHS PDF to confirm.
The NEET-PG qualifying threshold was lowered for the 2025 Round 3 process.
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) lowered the NEET-PG 2025 qualifying percentile for Round 3 in January — down to the 7th percentile (103/800) for General/EWS and to the 0th percentile for SC/ST/OBC, which NBEMS pegged at -40/800. In English: the BJP-led Centre drove the bar into the basement to fill seats, then told states to mop up. According to KNRUHS’s own notices, Telangana’s counselling authority followed and held a mop-up phase under the Competent Authority Quota in February 2026, publishing a final merit list and a college-wise allotment list.
A Hyderabad report claims the inevitable happened: twenty candidates scoring between 1 and 99 out of 800 were allotted PG seats in Telangana, including one with 1 mark and All India Rank 2,29,981 getting MS Orthopaedics at Kamineni Academy under ST. Those granular details are attributed to “counselling data released by KNRUHS”, but the specific allotment PDF wasn’t linked. NBEMS’ rule-change absolutely made a 1-mark candidature eligible for counselling; whether that exact seat was allotted and joined is what the KNRUHS February 16 college-wise allotment and subsequent join/not-reported lists would settle.
KNRUHS has listed the relevant mop-up notifications and says admissions remain subject to eligibility verification. NBEMS also says ranks didn’t change; only the cut-off did. Translation: Delhi moved the goalposts and told universities to play on. We’ll update once the KNRUHS allotment PDF is pulled — the numbers should speak louder than the spin.