Telangana NEET UG 2026: Provisional Merit List Out — Here's What to Check and Fix Before the Grievance Deadline

If you registered for Telangana's state-level NEET UG counselling this year, there's an important document you need to check right now. The Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), which conducts admissions to MBBS and BDS seats under the Competent Authority Quota in Telangana, has published a provisional state merit list. This list decides where you stand relative to other applicants before actual seat allotment rounds begin, so any error in it — wrong rank, wrong category, wrong local status — can directly affect which college and course you get. There's also a separate list of candidates marked ineligible, and a narrow window to raise objections before the university locks in the final ranking.

What KNRUHS has actually released

This is a provisional state merit list, not a seat allotment result. It ranks candidates who completed online registration and document verification for Telangana's Competent Authority Quota seats in MBBS and BDS courses, based on their NEET UG 2026 performance.

Along with the main list, KNRUHS has also published a separate list of candidates it has marked ineligible. If your name shows up there instead of in the ranked list, you need to act quickly — this affects whether you can participate in counselling at all.

Where and how to check it

The list is available as a PDF on two official portals: tsmedadm.tsche.in and knruhs.telangana.gov.in. There is no login required to view the document — it's a searchable PDF, so use Ctrl+F on a laptop or the search/find function on your phone's PDF viewer to locate your NEET roll number or name quickly rather than scrolling through the whole list.

• Open tsmedadm.tsche.in or knruhs.telangana.gov.in
• Go to the Notifications/Admissions section on the homepage
• Click the link for the TS NEET UG 2026 Provisional Merit List
• Download the PDF and search it by your NEET roll number or name
• Note down your recorded State Merit Rank, NEET score, category and local status

What exactly to verify against your own documents

Don't just check that your name appears — cross-check every field against your NEET UG scorecard and your admission application. Small clerical mismatches at this stage are common and are exactly what the grievance window exists for.

• NEET All India Rank (AIR) and score match your official scorecard
• Category (General, EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, PwBD) is recorded correctly
• Local/non-local domicile status is accurate, since this affects local reservation quotas
• Gender field matches your application, particularly if you applied under any gender-based reservation
• You are not appearing in the ineligible-candidates list by mistake

The grievance window — and why the deadline matters

KNRUHS has opened a short grievance redressal window for this provisional list. Candidates who find a discrepancy in their marks, category, local status, or who believe they were wrongly marked ineligible, can email their objection with supporting documents to knrugadmission@gmail.com before 12:00 PM on August 26, 2026.

This is a tight deadline, so if you spot any error, do not wait — attach scanned copies of your NEET scorecard, category/domicile certificates and any other relevant proof with your email. Once this window closes, the list forms the basis for further steps in Telangana's counselling process, and unresolved errors become much harder to fix later.

Who is eligible for the Competent Authority Quota in Telangana

Before assuming a rank on this list guarantees a seat, it helps to recall the baseline eligibility conditions for these MBBS/BDS seats, since ineligibility can override rank.

• You must have qualified NEET UG 2026 at or above the applicable cut-off
• You must be an Indian national, a Person of Indian Origin (PIO), or an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder
• You must complete 17 years of age by December 31, 2026
• You must have passed Class 12 (or equivalent) with Physics, Chemistry, Biology (Botany and Zoology) or Biotechnology, and English

What this means for your counselling timeline

A provisional merit list is essentially a checkpoint, not a result to celebrate or worry over on its own. Your actual admission outcome depends on how this rank translates into seat allotment once counselling rounds for Competent Authority Quota seats open. Use this window purely to make sure the data behind your rank is accurate, because a wrong category or local-status entry can shift your effective rank within a reservation category even if your raw NEET score is unaffected.

Frequently asked questions

Download your copy of the provisional list today, verify every detail against your original documents, and if anything looks off, email KNRUHS well before the 12:00 PM, August 26, 2026 cut-off rather than at the last minute. Keep checking tsmedadm.tsche.in and knruhs.telangana.gov.in for the next update — the revised or final merit list and the counselling schedule that follows.