NEET Reservation Policy shows the percentage of seats allocated for Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC), other backward castes (OBC), individuals with physical disabilities (PwD), economically weaker sections (EWS) for getting admission to the various MBBS, AYUSH and BDS courses with the help of NEET 2021.
The candidates who will be able to pass the entrance exam will be invited for participating in the counseling process. The Reservation in NEET will be applicable to the 15 percent seats offered in the All India Quota. For the remaining 85 percent quota seats for each state, the respective states have their own NEET Reservation Criteria. This will be applied during the counseling held in the individual states. All the seats offered to the candidates are for central Universities and private colleges in India which are under NEET 2021 reservation policy. The NEET reservation policy has been introduced so as to bring the disadvantaged people at an equal level with the others.
| 15 percent seats are reserved for the Scheduled Caste candidates while 7.5 percent have been kept reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates. 27 percent of the seats are for OBC candidates. |
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EWS Quota
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare introduced an EWS quota in NEET-UG admission for those candidates who are from financially backward families. Those candidates must not be covered beforehand by any reservation scheme and the gross family income must not exceed eight lakhs yearly.
Candidates with the following assets will not be eligible for the EWS quota.
- Have five acres of agricultural land
- Have a residential flat of 100 square feet or above
- Have a residential plot of 100 square yards in municipalities.
- Have a residential plot of 200 square yards in other areas.
The EWS reservation will be offered in the different central universities in India.
NEET Reservation Criteria 2021- Persons with disability
Candidates who will be claiming reservation under this section will have to submit a Disability Certificate issued by one of the disability assessment boards.
Application fees for NEET 2021
Candidates belonging to the various reserved categories will have to pay the application fee. It is only after paying the application fee that the application form submission process will be complete. Here is a list of the subsidized application fee.
| Category | Application Fee |
|---|---|
| General | Rs 1,500 |
| General-EWS and OBC-NCL | Rs 1,400 |
| SC, ST, PwD | Rs 800 |
With NEET Reservation Policy, people from the backward sections of the society will get a good chance to make it big in the field of medical sciences.
Read more: NEET Reservation Policy and Criteria
