Puducherry: Mop-up Round Counselling for BDS and BAMS Courses

Through a recent notice, the CENTAC has informed about the conduct of mop-up round counselling for admissions into BDS and BAMS courses this academic year.

Mode of Counselling

Mop-up Counselling for BDS, BAMS & B.V.S.c courses will be done both through web conferencing and physical mode as shown below:

Candidates can select their mode of counselling. Using their Dashboard login credentials, candidates have to choose their mode of counselling - Web Conferencing or Physical mode before 6 PM, 06.04.2022. Candidates selecting the offline mode have to report to the regional centres in person and register their names by 9 AM on 07.04.2022.

List of Regional Centres

Using their Dashboard login credentials, candidates have to submit their willingness to participate in Mop-up Counselling before 6 PM, 06.04.2022. Web Conferencing Link will be sent to only those who register. Links will be sent to the CENTAC registered Emails of all the participating candidates who have selected online mode for participating in Counseling. In case of difficulty, if any, in participating through web conferencing due to connectivity issues, the candidates will be allowed to call on the phone numbers 9566688077 / 9042412110 and choose the seats. Candidates are instructed to use the above Mobile Numbers only on the Day of Counselling. However, they can mail their queries to centacprof@gmail.com.

Eligibility / Sliding

Students who have joined the BDS/BAMS Course till 2nd round counselling are also eligible for Mop-up Counselling and sliding is allowed. This is done based on the consideration that a candidate should be able to choose the college of his choice based on merit. Students who have not joined are also eligible for Mop-up counselling. However, already admitted MBBS candidates are not eligible for counselling.

Mop-up Counselling Schedule

Vacancy Details

Provisional vacancy details are published on 5.04.2022 in the CENTAC website. Candidates are requested to evaluate their chances based on the vacancies and CENTAC will not be responsible for not calling anyone for counselling. Joining Date: Students should join on or before 08-04-2022, 3 PM. Students can report either physically or through online, in view of the COVID restrictions.

Reservation

MOP-UP Counseling will be done in sessions. In the first session, reservation will be allowed and all Candidates in the respective Category will be called. Thereafter unfilled seats will be converted into unreserved seats and offered as per Merit. MOP-UP Counseling will be done separately for Government and management Quota seats. Conversion of Vacant Seats will be done as per the guidelines issued by the Health Department, Govt. of Puducherry.

Instructions to Candidates

Candidates will be called in the order of Merit. Please see the vacancy details and evaluate your choices and accordingly decide for participation in counselling.

Documents to be shown at the time of counselling

• Result/Rank letter issued by NBE
• Documents for reservation claimed

Expressing Willingness for 1:10 list

After MOP UP Counseling, CENTAC will be sponsoring the list of interested candidates to the colleges against the incidental vacancies that arise after MOP UP counseling in the ratio of 1:10 i.e., if 5 Vacancies are there then list of 50 candidates in order of merit will be . Candidates who are already registered with CENTAC will be required to enter their choice to participate in the 1:10 list to be to the colleges after MOP UP round, for incidental vacancies, if any. Candidates who have already joined will be excluded from the 1:10 list. Please note that the names of the Candidates who have not expressed willingness will not be . The choices will be closed by 6 PM on 06.04.2022.

To view the official Notice, click on the following link: Official Notice