Hyderabad: City student Rajupalem Ujwal of Hyderabad topped the Eamcet-2 for admission to medical colleges, the results of which were released on Wednesday. Kasam Aishwarya from Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s constituency Gajwel bagged the second rank and M. Sai Sushruta from Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh stood third. The results were declared by health minister Dr C. Laxma Reddy.

Other rankers in the top 10 list were Venu Madhav Pinniti (fourth), M. Ankith Reddy (fifth) (both from Hyderabad), Jataprolu Pran-avi from Achampet (sixth), Thappeta Tejaswani from Anantapur, AP (seventh), Siddhatha B. Rao (eighth), Koyya Vineeth Reddy (ninth) (both from Hyderabad, and Chirumamilla Krishna Gee-th from Khammam (10th). Of the 50,961 candidates who gave the exam, 93.49 per cent passed. The highest pass percentage was registered among Scheduled Tribe students (98.77 per cent).

It turned out that 134 candidates who cleared Eamcet-2 had failed in their Intermediate exam. The ranks of 427 candidates were withheld, as details of the qualifying exam were not available. Of the 1,780 MBBS seats available under the convener’s quota, 1,060 are in government colleges and 720 in private institutions. For BDS, 640 seats are available under the convener’s quota of which 140 are in government colleges.

The state has five government medical colleges and 15 private colleges for MBBS and one government dental college and nine private for BDS. Certificate verification of the candidates will be held from July 25 to 29. For special category candidates like physically handicapped, Army and sports, verification will be held between July 30 and 31. Web counselling is expected to be held in the first week of August.

Speaking to the media, vice-chancellor of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences B. Karunakar Reddy said that seats for AYUSH courses would be filled based on ranks obtained in Eamcet-I. He said that 50 per cent of seats in private colleges, including 35 per cent under management quota and 15 per cent under NRI quota, would be filled through ranks obtained in Neet. Eamcet-2 was necessitated as the Supreme Court initially make Neet mandatory nationwide for medical colleges, and then gave exemptions for this year to some states including TS.