Reservation in NEET UG 2025 for OBC, EWS, SC, and ST Candidates

NEET 2025 AIQ Reservation Scheme

The following table brings the new NEET reservation criteria for OBC, EWS, SC, ST and PwD categories under the 15 per cent AIQ seats are as follows:

NEET Reservation for OBC

The OBC quota in NEET, as per the NEET 2021 reservation policy, benefits a large number of OBC and EWS category students. Before this ruling, the 15 per cent AIQ seats included 27 per cent OBC reservation in NEET and 10 per cent EWS reservation only for National Institutes or Central Universities, which reduced their scope of admission for the rest of the MBBS and BDS colleges.

According to NTA, only those OBC candidates belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (NCL) would be eligible for the 27 per cent reservation. Hence, while applying for NEET 2025 counselling rounds, candidates must ensure that they have all the required documents, without which they would not be considered eligible for the reservation.

NEET Reservation for EWS

As far as the NEET reservation for the EWS category is concerned, in order to fulfill the eligibility criteria, candidates should not possess the following property details or the annual income:

• The annual income of candidates’ families should not exceed INR 8 lakh

• Candidates’ families should not own five acres of agricultural land or above

• Candidates’ families should not own a residential flat of 1,000 square feet or above

• Candidates’ family members should not own a residential plot of 100 square yards and above in notified municipalities

• Candidates’ families should not own residential plots of 200 square yards and above in areas other than the notified municipalities

NEET Reservation for PwD

Candidates who consider themselves eligible for this category are advised to ensure their eligibility by getting themselves examined at any Government Medical College/District Hospital/Government Hospital. Such a Government Medical College/District Hospital/Government Hospital shall issue a Disability Certificate.

After this, candidates, upon selection under the PwD Category, will have to produce a Disability Certificate issued by the Disability Assessment Board. Hence, it is important for the candidates to appear before the Disability Assessment Board so as to determine whether they may register or participate in the common online Counselling towards admission in medical courses, after the declaration of the NEET 2025 result on June 14, 2025.

In case candidates are considered ineligible by the Disability Assessment Board, they may not register or participate in the common online Counselling, and any online provisional allotment of the medical college shall be entirely fraudulent on the part of the candidate. Physical verification of various certificates, including academic and Disability, will be done upon reporting for admission to the medical college.

Institute Types under 15% AIQ Seats

The institute types following the above-mentioned reservation criteria are given below:

• AIIMS Institutes
• Central Universities/ESIC
• AFMC
• JIPMER

However, candidates must note that there will be no reservation for OBC/ SC/ ST/ PWD/EWS candidates in Deemed Universities. This was all about the 15 per cent AIQ reservation criteria. The rest of the 85 per cent seats are reserved for the State Quota. Each state has its category-wise reservation criteria. 

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