Counselling for Admission

Venue

    Counselling for all the above degree courses will be conducted at the Office of the CENTAC, Chemical Engineering Block, Pondicherry Engineering College (PEC), Pillaichavady,
Puducherry - 605 014.

Date and Time
     Candidates will be called for counselling as per their order of merit is each course. Candidates to be called for counselling will be intimated through call letters or a public notification in local newspapers and in the official web site of CENTAC. No change of date / time of counselling is permissible. CENTAC will not be responsible for postal delay, if any, and non-delivery of counselling/intimation letters whatever be the reason (s) thereto. [If the improvement marks are submitted by the candidate after the commencement of counselling, only the actually available seats at the time of counselling, will be made available, to such candidates. However due weightage will be given to the improvement marks].

     Candidates who do not attend the counselling on the specified date and time, have to forego their claim for admission. However, due to unforeseen circumstances and unavoidable reasons, if a candidate is unable to attend the counselling on the specified date and time, he / she can attend on a subsequent date and time during the counselling period for the course, with prior permission of “The Convenor, CENTAC”. But, the candidate can only opt for the seat available at that time and cannot claim any seat as per his / her original rank,for the course. In any case, counselling will not be done in the absence of candidates.

    Unfilled seats and vacancies, arising out of the dropouts of already admitted candidates, or due to the introduction of new courses or inclusion of new institutions, will be filled - up during the subsequent Counsellings. Details of such vacancies will be notified in newspapers and will also be made available in the official web site of CENTAC and such information will also be updated periodically. Individual intimation will not be sent to candidates for Counselling of seats arising due to vacancies, for the reasons mentioned above. These vacancies “shall be open” to all candidates applied for admission through CENTAC, including the candidates already admitted during earlier counselling.

        Important Note: Candidates admitted into any college/course, during their subsequent counselling, shall join that college/course on or before the last date prescribed by the respective Colleges. Failure to do so will make them liable to “forfeit both the newly allotted seats and the seats in which they had been admitted” during the earlier counselling.CENTAC will not be any way responsible nor liable for such lapses, on the part of candidates.

         No communication shall be sent to candidates who are not eligible to be called for counselling and no further correspondence in this regard, will also be entertained.
 

Verification of Original Certificates
     Candidates called for counselling shall be required to submit all the documents in original for verification at the time of counselling. Candidates, who fail to produce the required documents in original, shall not be counselled. However, if a candidate has deposited all or the required original certificates, with an institution where he / she has already been admitted, a letter to that effect issued by the Head of that Institution should be produced. Only in that case, attested / true copy of the relevant certificates will be accepted for verification and counselling of Candidates. The original documents submitted by the candidates to be admitted, shall be returned only after obtaining recognition from the respective Universities and hence the candidates are advised to take enough number of photocopies of the documents, before submitting the originals for verification during counselling and subsequently for admission to the courses.

Counselling Fees

     A non-refundable counselling fee of Rs.500/- (Rs.125/- for SC/ST Candidates) will be collected from each candidate ‘getting admission for the first time’, to any of the Degree courses coming under CENTAC.

     During every subsequent/supplementary counselling, the candidate will be required to pay an ‘additional counselling fee’ of Rs.300/- (Rs.75/- for SC/ST Candidates) if, he/she ‘takes admission in any other college/degree course/branch of study’.

      The counselling fee should be in the form of ‘Demand Draft’ drawn in favour of “The Convenor, CENTAC”, payable at Puducherry. Payment by cheques, postal orders, money orders and Cash will not be accepted.


No candidate will be allowed to attend the counselling without the prescribed counselling fee.

Admission

Admission to all courses is based on the merit, category of the candidates, and the availability of seats at the time of counselling. All admissions made by CENTAC are “provisional” and are subject to approval by the respective Universities. Candidates who have been offered admission to a particular College should report to that College on or before the due date mentioned by CENTAC, in the ‘provisional admission order’, failing which, they will forfeit the right of admission. At any time, if the CENTAC / College authorities find that admission has been offered based on false/ incorrect information/ documents and suppression of relevant facts, education qualification or quota, the admission offered or the admission already completed shall be cancelled, irrespective of the stage of study of that course. Further, legal proceedings will also be initiated against such candidates for such action /(s). Hence, Candidates are warned against indulging in such action/ (s), in their own interest. All parents are also requested to make note of the above provision, and take due care and diligence, in all matters concerning admission to the various professional courses.

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