Kerala State Quota and Reservation categories for MBBS

Kerala Medical Seats reserved categories and Quotas

For Govt colleges seats are reserved for 15% AIQ and 85% seats to State Counseling
For Palakkad Medical college has reservation for State counseling is various from other colleges, Scheduled Caste 70%, Scheduled Tribe 2%, General Merit 13% and AIQ 15%
For Govt Medical college Kollam seats are reserved for 15% AIQ and 35% for ESIC quota 50% seats to State Counseling
For Non Private colleges 70% seats for State Management Quota, 15% seats for ALL India Merit Category and 15% seats to NRI category.
If Minority Based private colleges has reserved its seats for 30 to 50% to particular Minority and 15% seats for AM Category, 15% for NRI (NRI Minority)and balance seats are went to State management quota.

MBBS Seat Reservation

As per the prevailing mandatory reservation principle, communal reservation percentage are given below. All Seats in government colleges and private colleges are allotted based on the communal reservation after excluding seats which come under the special reservations such as NCC, etc.

• (A) State Merit (SM) – 60%
• (B) Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) – Total = 30%
  • Ezhava (EZ) – 9%
  • Muslim (MU) – 8%
  • Other Backward Hindu (BH) – 3%
  • Latin Catholic and Anglo Indian (LA) – 3%
  • Dheevara and related communities (DV) – 2%
  • Viswakarma and related communities (VK) – 2%
  • Kusavan and related communities (KN) – 1%
  • Other Backward Christian (BX) – 1%
  • Kudumbi (KU) – 1%
• (C) Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes – Total = 10%
  • Scheduled Castes (SC) – 8%
  • Scheduled Tribes (ST) – 2%

Special Reservation Quota

• Ex-servicemen Quota (XS): Six seats are reserved
• Dependent of Defense Personnel Missing or Killed or Disabled (DK): Five seats are available in government medical colleges.
• Serving Defense Personnel (SD): Two seats are available.
• CAPF (RP): Seats are reserved for sons/daughters of personnel serving in Central Armed Police
  Force/Dependent of Armed Police Force Personnel Killed/Missed/Disabled in Action.
• Jewish (JW) Quota: 1 seat is reserved under this quota.
• Degree holders in Ayurveda (DA): Seven seats are reserved for Degree holders in Ayurveda
• Degree holders in Homeopathy (DH): Four seats in the MBBS course are reserved for degree holders in Homeopathy
• Nurse-Allopathy (NQ): One seat is reserved for Nurses working for Government of Kerala
• Sports Quota (PI & PT): Four seats under Individual (PI) and three seats under Team Event(PT) are available for sports person.
• NCC Quota (CC): Two seats are reserved for National Cadet Corps.
• Reservation for Persons with Disabilities (PD): Five % of the seats available are reserved for candidates with benchmark disabilities who have minimum of 40% disability for all courses in Govt./Aided Colleges
• EWS Quota: A total of 10% seats are reserved for EWS Quota in Government colleges.
• Govt of India Nominees: 24 seats are reserved for nominations
• Kerala origin settled in Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Has 1 seat reserved
• Kerala origin settled in Lakshadweep: Has 1 seat reserved
• Jammu & Kashmir Nominees: Has 1 seat reserved