Haryana MBBS counselling: round-by-round exit rules

Haryana is read as lenient because it offers a penalty-free withdrawal window. The trap is taking that to mean any seat can be abandoned. It cannot. The free exit is a formal step inside published dates; walk away from an allotted Round 2 seat by simply not joining, and the one-lakh deposit is gone.

This page covers the DMER state counselling for the 85% Haryana quota in government colleges and the seats in private and university colleges.

Who runs it

The Directorate of Medical Education and Research conducts counselling for the state quota.

Security deposit, by category

The deposit is set by college type, flat across categories. The category concession is on the registration fee, not the deposit.

Registration fee is around ₹4,000 for general candidates and ₹1,000 for SC, BC and EWS, with a higher NRI fee. There is no reserved-category concession on the deposit itself.

How the rounds work

Haryana runs the main rounds, a mop-up and a stray round. The withdrawal window is the key mechanic: pull out within the official withdrawal dates and you keep your deposit, in Round 1 or Round 2. That is the penalty-free exit. Where it bites is non-joining: a candidate allotted in Round 2 who does not join, and does not use the withdrawal step, still forfeits the ₹1,00,000 deposit. From the mop-up round there is no leniency at all. The distinction is between leaving through the door (the withdrawal window) and leaving by ignoring a seat (forfeiture).

Reservation and eligibility

Domicile. A valid Haryana resident or domicile certificate for the state quota.

Reservation. Haryana reserves roughly 20% for Scheduled Castes, split into Deprived SC and Other SC blocks, and runs backward-class quotas as BC-A around 16% and BC-B around 11%, with EWS 10% and PwD 5% as a horizontal quota. Ex-servicemen's wards and freedom-fighter dependants carry horizontal quotas. The SC sub-split and the exact BC-A and BC-B figures are set by the DMER bulletin and can move, so confirm the current split.

What this means for your choices

Mark the withdrawal dates the day they publish, because they are your free exit. If you may leave a seat, leave through the window, not by ignoring the allotment; the difference is ₹1,00,000. Treat the mop-up round as a hard commitment, since the leniency is gone by then. And read the BC-A and BC-B definitions carefully if you hold a Haryana backward-class certificate, as the two blocks reach different seats.