Puducherry NEET MDS Counselling 2022-23: Schedule, Fee, Counselling Process, Documents etc.

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), on behalf of the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), will conduct the Puducherry NEET MDS counselling 2022 in the first week of June. Puducherry NEET MDS 2022 counselling will be conducted online to take admission in Dental colleges in India. To participate in Puducherry NEET MDS counselling 2022, candidates must have secure minimum marks in PG dental entrance test.

[[PAGE INDEX]] 1. MDS Quick Facts 2. Counselling Date 3. Eligibility Criteria 4. Counselling Process 5. Counselling Fees 6. MDS Cutoff 7. List of MDS Colleges 8. FAQs

Quick Facts

Before we speak about Pondicherry NEET MDS 2022 Highlights, Let us first have some significant highlights.

Name of Exam	NEET MDS
Counselling Name	Pondicherry NEET MDS Counselling
Languages	English
Counselling Authority	CENTRALISED ADMISSION COMMITTEE (CENTAC)
NEET MDS Counselling Date	To be Announced
NEET MDS Result	27 May 2022 (Released)
Mode of Counselling	Online
Counselling Purpose	Admission to Postgraduate Dental Course
MDS Colleges in Pondicherry	Top Dental College in Pondicherry

Pondicherry Counselling Important Dates 2022

Here in this table, we have mentioned Pondicherry NEET MDS Counselling Date. However, the NEET MDS 2022 dates for counselling will be released by the CENTAC.

Event	Dates*
Round 1	—
Registration for NEET MDS counselling	To be notified
Choice Filling and Locking	To be notified
Provisional seat allotment list	To be notified
First seat allotment list	To be notified
Reporting at the allocated institute	To be notified
Round 2	—
Registrations reopen for the round 2	To be notified
Choice Filling and Locking	To be notified
Second seat allotment list	To be notified
Reporting at the allocated institute	To be notified
Mop-up round	—
The seat matrix for the mop-up round released	To be notified
Registrations reopen for mop-up round	To be notified
Choice Filling and Locking	To be notified
Seat allotment list for the mop-up round	To be notified
Reporting at the allocated institute	To be notified
Transfer of vacant seats to Deemed/Central Universities/ESIC	To be notified
Stray Vacancy Round at Institute level	To be notified

Pondicherry NEET MDS Application Fee (in Rupees) (Non-Refundable) 2022

We have provided th Pondicherry NEET MDS counselling application form fees for rupees and non-refundable fees category-wise.

Type of Quota applied for	All (except SC/ST/PwD)	SC/ST/PwD
Govt. Quota (Puducherry Residents only)	Rs. 3000 /-	Rs. 1500 /-
Management Quota (All)	Rs. 5000 /-	Rs. 2500 /-
NRI (For PG Dental only)	Rs. 10000 /-	Rs. 10000 /-

Pondicherry NEET MDS Reservation of Seats 2022

Reservation in admission to various courses for the candidates of the U.T. of Puducherry belonging to different categories is as given below. Further, OBC/BCM/MBC/EBC/BT/SC/ST candidates are also eligible for selection under the Open General category in addition to the reservations made to them.

S.No.	Category	% of Reservation
1.	Open General	50%
2.	Other Backward Classes (OBC)	11%
3.	Backward Classes Muslims (BCM)	2%
4.	Most Backward Classes (MBC)	18%
5.	Extreme Backward Classes (EBC)	2%
6.	Backward Tribes (BT)	0.5%
7.	Scheduled Caste (SC)	16%
8.	Scheduled Tribe (ST)	0.5%

Horizontal Reservation

S.No	Category	% of Reservation
1.	Children/Grand Children of Freedom Fighter (FF)	4 %
2.	A person with Disabilities (PwD)	5 %
3.	Wards of Ex-Servicemen (ESM)	1 %
4.	Candidates who are Meritorious in Sports (MSP)	1 %

Pondicherry NEET MDS 2022 Eligibility Critera & Non- Eligibility

Pondicherry NEET MDS 2022 Eligibility Critera & Non- Eligibility, Nationality Criteria for admission to Post Graduate Degree MDS Courses. we have mentioned below the table for NEET MDS Counselling Eligibility 2022

S.No.	Eligibility	Non- Eligibility	Nationality Criteria
1.	The candidate must have passed the final MDS examination (MDS) examination from any recognized Institution / University and must have completed a satisfactorily one-year compulsory rotating internship from 31.03.2022 to 30.06.2022*(for MDS Course) and must submit their internship completion certificate at the time of admission.	A candidate who has joined a Post Graduate Degree course in any branch and discontinued the course on any grounds after the cutoff date fixed by the National Medical Commission is not eligible to apply for two subsequent academic years.	A candidate seeking admission through CENTAC should be an Indian National. However, French Nationals residing in the UT of Puducherry and covered by the terms of the Treaty of Cession shall be treated on par with Indian Nationals for the purpose of admission to all the courses.
2.	A candidate, in order to become eligible for admission, must obtain a minimum required percentile in NEET-MDS 2022, as prescribed by regulatory authorities such as the National Board of Examination, National Medical Commission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, etc., as the case may be.	A candidate who took an allotment for an MDS Degree course in any branch in the final phase of counselling and did not join the course on or before the cutoff date is not eligible to apply for two subsequent academic years.

Pondicherry NEET MDS 2022 Registration Fees

In addition to the Application fee, For MDS Dental Counselling, candidates need to pay the Counselling and Registration fees for participating in counselling.

S.No	Round	Exit with forfeiture of fees	Ineligible for further counselling	Counselling and Registration Fee
1.	1st Round	If not joined	—	Nil
2.	2nd Round	If not joined	—	Government Quota – General – Rs. 25,000 /- (Rs.12,500/- for SC/ST/BT/OBC/ EBC/MBC/BCM) Management Quota – Rs.2,00,000
3.	3rd Round	If allotted and not joined	If allotted	Counselling Fees – Rs.1000 /- (Non-refundable) + Full Tuition fees
4.	Stray Vacancy List	Rs. 5000 /- (Will be forfeited if the candidate declines the seat)

Pondicherry NEET MDS Counselling Procedure

• After a few days of the declaration of the result, the university will publish the merit list for various PG courses on the website.
• Candidates will be called for counselling based on the merit list, i.e., a personal interview round.
• Candidates have to report to the prescribed counselling venue by the university on a given date and time.
• Candidates have to verify the said documents. After the document verification process, the university will return the original certificates to the candidates.
• It will be necessary for the candidates to bring their original documents for the verification process. Without verification of documents, candidates will not be able to be an admission.
• As per the preference filled by the candidate and interview & past academic records, the candidates will be allotted the seats in order of their merit.
• If the candidate does not attend the counselling on the given date and time, their admission will be considered cancelled.
• After the seat allotment, candidates must report to the allotted college and submit the counselling fee.
• The fee will be paid at the time of admission. The admission fee will be paid online mode.

Counselling Fee

The Pudducherry NEET MDS Counselling 2022 fees have two categories refundable and non-refundable. Refer to the following table to know the fee details.

Non-refundable registration fees	—
General	1,000
SC/ST/OBC	500
For Deemed Universities	Fee (INR)
All categories	5,000
Refundable Fees	—
General	25,000
SC/ST/OBC	10,000
Deemed Universities	Fee (INR)
All categories	2,00,000

Counselling Flow chart

Documents Required

The applicants who are allocated a seat through the Puducherry NEET MDS 2022 counselling must report to the allotted institute to confirm the documents. The candidate must carry the following documents for proof of the seat assigned.

• NEET PG 2022 scorecard.
• MBBS degree certificate and course completion certificate.
• Compulsory Rotatory Residential Internship certificate.
• Final MBBS Part II Mark sheets.
• Permanent or Provisional Medical Registration Certificate issued by the MCI.
• Community certificate, if applicable.
• Class X Mark Sheet.
• Class XII Mark Sheet.
• Passport Size Photographs.
• NEET PG 2022 Allotment Letter.

NEET MDS Cutoff 2022 (Announced)

The College Cut-off is the minimum marks prescribed by the selection board for the admission of students. A merit list will be designed on these Cutoff scores. Aspirants who apply for the Institute need to clear the Cutoff for various courses.

• Aspirants are required to obtain minimum qualifying percentile marks in NEET 2022 entrance examination in order to qualify for further admission process.
• Candidates who belong to SC/ ST/ OBC are required to obtain marks equivalent to at least 40^thpercentile to be considered for AIQ and state counselling process.
• Aspirants who belong to the UR category are required to score equivalent to at least 50^thpercentile

Category	Minimum Qualifying/Eligibility Criteria	Cut off score (Out of 960)
UR/EWS	50th percentile	263
SC/ST/OBC (Including PWD of SC/ST/OBC)	40th percentile	227
UR PWD	45th percentile	245

NEET MDS 2022 Cutoff (Graphical Representation)

NEET MDS Cutoff 2022

The cutoff is the minimum score required by the candidates to get admission to the Top Prosthodontics Colleges in India. The Cutoff will be decided by various factors such as the number of students appearing for the exam, difficulty level of the exam, etc.

NEET MDS Previous Years Cutoff (2021 & 2020)

Category	NEET MDS cutoff %tile	NEET MDS 2021 cutoff scores	NEET MDS 2022 cutoff scores
General/EWS	50th percentile	259	286
SC/ST/OBC	40th percentile	227	250
General/EWS-PH	45th percentile	243	268
SC/ST/OBC-PH	40th percentile	227	250

List of MDS Colleges in Pondicherry

S. No	Institute Name	Establishment Year	Affiliated with
1.	Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences Pondicherry	2006-07	Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University
2.	Mahe Institute of Dental Sciences & Hospital Pondicherry	2009-10	Pondicherry University
3.	Sri Venkateshwaraa Dental College Pondicherry	2014-15	Pondicherry University
4	Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental College Pondicherry	1990-91	Pondicherry University

Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs)