Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has released the state rank list for MBBS and BDS admissions for the 2026-27 academic year, announcing that the medical counselling will commence on August 13. Offline counselling for special category students will be held at the Omandurar Government Medical College, while general counselling will proceed online. Under the 7.5 per cent preferential reservation for government school students, 641 seats -- comprising 537 MBBS and 104 BDS seats --have been allocated this year. Health department officials disqualified five applicants this year for submitting fake NEET scorecards and documents, the Minister added. He added that the state advocates moving 'Education' and 'Medicine' from the Concurrent List to the State List, or creating a 'Special Concurrent List' where state laws would supersede central mandates in case of a conflict, ensuring equitable educational access to rural and marginalized students.