Haryana NEET category list and reservations

This Haryana NEET category list covers every reservation code used in state medical counselling. Haryana reserves seats across four category groups (SC, BCA, BCB, EWS), with the remaining 50% open to general/unreserved candidates. The state also has a unique sub-classification of Scheduled Castes that splits the SC quota into two distinct groups.

Category codes used in Haryana counselling

Management and institutional quotas (private colleges):

SC sub-classification: what SC_DEPRIVED means

Haryana became the first state to implement sub-classification of Scheduled Castes following the Haryana Scheduled Castes (Reservation in Admission in Government Educational Institutions) Act, 2020, with implementation beginning in 2024.

The earlier single 20% SC quota is now split equally:

• SC (Other Scheduled Castes): 10%; all SC communities except those in the deprived list
• SC_DEPRIVED (Deprived Scheduled Castes): 10%; 36 specific communities including Valmiki, Bazigar, and Sansi

If you belong to one of the 36 listed communities, you fall under SC_DEPRIVED. All other Scheduled Caste communities compete under the SC code.

How to determine your category

Your category for Haryana NEET counselling is determined by your caste/community certificate issued by the competent authority (Tehsildar/SDM). Key points:

• OPEN: If your community is not listed in any reserved category
• BCA: Per the Haryana Backward Classes (Block A) list
• BCB: Per the Haryana Backward Classes (Block B) list
• SC / SC_DEPRIVED: Per the Scheduled Castes list for Haryana; SC_DEPRIVED if your community is among the 36 deprived communities specified in the 2020 Act
• EWS: If your family’s gross annual income is below the EWS income threshold set by the state (typically ₹8 lakh per the central EWS criteria) and you do not belong to SC/BC categories; requires a separate EWS certificate

For Management quota and NRI quota in private colleges, category reservation does not apply. These seats are filled on the basis of NEET merit alone (with NRI eligibility documentation for NRI seats).

Seat vacancy conversion

When reserved seats go unfilled after all rounds, they convert according to the standard chain. Unfilled category seats revert to the Open/General pool after exhausting options within the reserved category.

Horizontal reservations (applied within each vertical category)

These quotas cut across all vertical categories:

Persons with Benchmark Disability (PwBD): 5%

Applied within each vertical category (OPEN, SC, BCA, BCB, EWS). You need a minimum 40% disability certificate from a designated medical board. Category codes appear with the -PWD suffix (e.g., OPEN-PWD, BCA-PWD, SC_DEPRIVED-PWD).

Ex-Servicemen and Freedom Fighters (ESM/FF): 3%

Distributed as: 1% from General, 1% from SC, 1% from BC. Category codes appear with the -ESM suffix. The ESM quota uses a priority system (Priority I through VII) to rank candidates within this category.

Women-only allocation

BPS Govt. Medical College, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat (HR005) admits only women. This is not a horizontal reservation but a college-level restriction.

Combined category codes

A candidate can have both a vertical category and one or more horizontal reservations. Examples from Haryana allotment data:

• OPEN-PWD, BCA-PWD, SC_DEPRIVED-PWD
• OPEN-ESM, BCB-ESM, SC-ESM
• OPEN-PWD-ESM (both horizontal reservations)

How Haryana categories differ from AIQ categories

Haryana does not have a Scheduled Tribe reservation in medical counselling. If you hold both a state category certificate and an OBC/SC certificate valid for central purposes, you can use each in its respective counselling.