HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has directed that children of central government employees posted outside Telangana be treated as local candidates for medical admissions, finding no justification for excluding them from an exemption available to children of state government employees.
A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin passed the order while disposing of a writ petition filed by Kodimela Samhitha, who challenged her exclusion from local-candidate status for MBBS and BDS admissions for the 2026-27 academic year.
Samhitha’s father, an Employees’ State Insurance Corporation employee, was transferred from Hyderabad to Tirupati in 2016 and returned to Hyderabad in 2024. She consequently completed her schooling in Andhra Pradesh and could not meet the requirement of studying in Telangana for four consecutive academic years.
The petitioner argued that excluding children of central government employees from the exemption available to children of state government employees was arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution.
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The court noted that the existing rules provide exemptions for children of state government employees, Telangana-cadre All India Service officers, defence personnel and employees of Telangana government corporations liable for transfer across India.
It found no justifiable reason to exclude similarly placed children of Central government employees.
Following an assurance from the State Advocate General that the rules would be amended or clarified, the court directed that the existing proviso be read as including children of Central government employees, Central government corporations and Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs).
The court also directed Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences to treat Samhitha as a local candidate and allow her to participate in the ongoing 2026-27 counselling process.
The directions will remain in force pending a formal amendment by the state government.