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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
CHIEF SECRETARIAT (EDUCATION)
(G.O. Ms. No. 35, dated 25th May 2015)
NOTIFICATION
The following corrigendum and addendum are issued to the G.O. Ms. No. 27, dated 1-4-2015 of
Chief Secretariat (Education), Puducherry, notified vide the Gazette of Puducherry (Part-I), No. 28, dated 2-4-2015.
2. In the G.O. Ms. No. 27, dated 1-4-2015 of Chief Secretariat (Education), Puducherry, issued for
notifying the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) Information Bulletin 2015-16, the norms prescribed
for Domicile Criteria of Union territory of Puducherry, reservation to the wards of Ex-servicemen and the Counselling
procedure for the admission of candidate to various under graduate professional degree courses stated therein
shall be corrected and appended to read as follows :
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Poudouchéry
Mardi
26
Mai
2015
(5 Jyaistha 1937)
No.
Puducherry
Tuesday
26th
May
2015
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CORRIGENDUM
1. In the Gazetted copy of CENTAC Information Bulletin 2015-16 :
Vide Page No. 192 clause 2.5 (d)
For
Children of Natives of Union territory of Puducherry
who have declared any place in the Union territory of
Puducherry as their home town (Father and Mother) and
so certified by their respective Heads of Office.
(Applicable only for Government employees).
Note: Nativity Certificate in the prescribed format has
to been enclosed along with the admission application.
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Deleted
2. In the Gazetted copy of CENTAC Information Bulletin 2015-16 :
Vide Page No. 192 clause 2.5 (e)
For
Children of Defense Personnel who were killed or
disabled in action and children of Central Government
Servants/Puducherry Union
Territory Government
Servants/Defense Personnel/Employees of Public
Sector undertaking as referred in category (c) who died
while in service in the Puducherry Union Territory.
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Children of Defense Personnel who were killed or
disabled in action and who have declared Puducherry
as their home town.
3. In the Gazetted copy of CENTAC Information Bulletin 2015-16 :
Vide Page No. 192 clause 2.5 (f)
For
French Nationals residing in the Puducherry Union
Territory and covered by the terms of the “Treaty .of
Cession” shall be treated on par with the candidates
who produce the prescribed Puducherry Union Territory
residence certificate. Such French Nationals will not be
required to produce residence certificate instead they
should produce a certificate of registration issued for
this purpose from the French Consulate at Puducherry.
Note: Children of these French Nationals shall not
be considered for admission under the quota of non-
residents.
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French Nationals residing in the Puducherry Union
Territory and covered by the terms of the “Treaty of
Cession” shall be treated on par with the candidates
who produce the prescribed Puducherry Union Territory
residence certificate. Such French Nationals will be
required to produce residence certificate issued by the
Department of Revenue and Disaster Management,
Puducherry, not below the rank of Deputy Tahsildar.
In addition they should produce a certificate of
registration issued for this purpose from the French
Consulate at Puducherry.
Note: Children of these French Nationals shall not
be considered for admission under the quota of non-
residents.
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4. In the Gazetted copy of CENTAC Information Bulletin 2015-16 :
Vide Page No. 195 clause 4.1.7
For
Wards of Defence Serving Personnel and Ex-servicemen-
Wards of Defence Serving Personnel who are natives
of this Union Territory and Ex-servicemen/widows who
have registered their names in the Department of Sainik
Welfare.
Such personnel having continuous period of five
years study of the ward of Ex-servicemen in any school/
college of Puducherry Union Territory for availing
facility of Ex-servicemen quota for higher education
from Puducherry Union Territory.
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Wards of Ex-servicemen-
Ex-servicemen: “Those who are registered as
Ex-servicemen in the Department of Sainik Welfare (DSW),
Government of Puducherry and have got Ex-servicemen/
Widows of Ex-servicemen identity card from the DSW
should enclose the necessary certificate issued by the
Director, DSW, Puducherry.”
5. In the Gazetted copy of CENTAC Information Bulletin 2015-16 :
Vide Page No. 202 clause 5.5
For
Before online counseling, candidates will be
informed through SMS/e-mail for original certificate
verification.
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Deleted
6. In the Gazetted copy of CENTAC Information Bulletin 2015-16 :
Vide Page No. 203 clause 6
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Online Counseling Procedures- The students should
refer the CENTAC website www.centaconline.in for merit
list for all the courses. If there are any corrections in
the Name, Date of Birth, Marks in the concerned
subjects, Categories, Special categories, Regional Claim
and their merit marks they should report to the
CENTAC office within two days with all original
certificates related to his/her demand.
From this year CENTAC will adopt the online
Counseling Method. Dates for the counseling will be
sent through SMS, e-mail and will be updated in the
CENTAC website and press releases, will be given also.
After the counseling date is announced the students
should refer the CENTAC website www.centaconline.in
regularly. During that period CENTAC portal will be
open from 7.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.
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6.0 Counseling for admission
6.1 Venue:
Counseling 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.
In respect of special category candidates (physically
handicapped, msp, freedom fighter, wards of ex-servicemen,
etc.) there will be only one counseling. Resultant
vacancies thereon will be carried over to the respective
categories. There would be no subsequent counseling
even if the reservation points are not filled.
6.2
Date and time:
Candidates will be called for counseling as per their
order of merit in each course. Candidates to be called
for counseling will be intimated through call letters or
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Candidates can login to the CENTAC website only
by paying the admission processing fees through
online payment (Credit cards/Debit cards/NEFT) as
part of the admission procedures.
Candidates must enter their options (unlimited
options are provided) for the courses and college
(Biology based Degree courses/B.Tech. Degree and
B.Pharm. Degree courses) as per their wish. Then only
they should log out of the website.
After a week's gap CENTAC will publish selection
list on the website and provisional allotment will be
posted on the CENTAC website and the same may be
downloaded from the CENTAC website. (Intimation will
be sent through SMS/e-mail).
After downloading the provisional allotment order
the candidates should report to the allotted college
within the specified duration. If not reported in the
given time, provisional allotment will be cancelled
automatically.
Similar procedure will be followed for the second
and third round of counseling.
Candidates are asked to visit the CENTAC website
frequently.
Read
a public notification in local newspapers and in the
official website of CENTAC. No change of date/time is
permissible. CENTAC will not be responsible for postal
delay, if any, and non-delivery of counseling/intimation
letters whatever may be the reason(s) thereto.
The candidate and either one of the parents or one legal
guardian has to compulsorily attend the counseling on
the concerned date. No exemption will be given to
anyone under any circumstances. Only candidate and
his/her parent/guardian will be admitted inside the
campus during counseling.
6.3 Important particulars pertaining to counseling :
Candidates need not have to wait for the call letter
for counseling. They can generate the CALL letter
from the CENTAC website www.centacprof.net.in by
entering their REGISTER NUMBER.
Candidates, who do not attend the counseling 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 counseling on the specified date and time
(duly informed to CENTAC either by SMS or otherwise),
he/she can attend on a subsequent date and time during
the counseling 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, counseling will not be done
in the absence of candidates.
If the revaluation/re-totaling marks are submitted by
the candidate after the commencement of counseling,
the actual seats available at the time of counseling will
be made available to such candidates. However, due
weightage will be given to the revaluation/re-totaling
marks.
Unfilled seats arising out of no candidates 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 counseling. Details of such
vacancies will be notified in the official website of
CENTAC and such information will also be updated
periodically.
Individual intimation will not be sent to candidates
for counselling for seats arising due to vacancies for
the reasons mentioned above. These vacancies "shall
be open" to all candidates who have applied for admission
through CENTAC, including the candidates already
admitted during earlier counseling. In the final counseling,
the unfilled seats of different/reserved categories are
filled under the same category of Union territory of
Puducherry and at the end all the vacant seats are filled
under the general category of Union terriotory of
Puducherry.
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Important note: Candidates admitted into any
college/course during their subsequent counseling,
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 counseling. The candidate shall be
personally liable for such lapses. No communication
shall be sent to candidates who are not eligible to be
called for counseling and no further correspondence in
this regard will also be entertained.
The candidates seeking admissions to counseling
should compulsorily attend the counseling date/dates
along with one of the parent/legal guardian of the
candidate. No relaxation will be granted to them.
Eligible candidates who have applied may appear
with parent/guardian for counseling according to their
cut-off mark, two hours before the counseling session
along with their original certificates for verification
irrespective of receipt of individual communication.
Important particulars pertaining to counseling.
Candidates called for counseling shall be required to
submit all the documents in original for verification at
the time of counseling. Candidates, who fail to produce
the required documents in original, shall not be
counseled. 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
counseling 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 counseling and subsequently for
admission to the courses.
6.4 Counseling fee:
A fee of ` 850 (` 350/- for SC/BT) will be collected
from each candidate. Candidates will forfeit the fee of
` 850 (` 350 for SC/BT candidates) only on selection
of seat in the first counseling. However, in subsequent
counseling(s) a non-refundable fee of ` 750 (for SC/BT
candidate ` 300 ) shall be collected irrespective of
selection of seat.
The counseling 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
counseling without the prescribed counseling fee.
6.5 Perunthalaivar Kamarajar financial assistance
scheme for the admission to the professional courses
will be notified separately and the revised scheme as
per that Government Order will be operational from this
Academic Year 2015-2016 onwards.
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ADDENDUM
7. In the Gazetted copy of CENTAC Information Bulletin 2015-16 :
Vide Page No. 203
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Clause 7-Not mentioned
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7.0 Admission :
Admission to all courses is based on the merit,
category of the candidates, and the availability of seats
at the time of counseling. All admissions made by
CENTAC are “provisional” and are subject to approval
by the University. 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.
3. All other conditions stipulated in the G.O. Ms. No. 27, dated 1-4-2015 of Chief Secretariat (Education),
Puducherry, notified vide the Gazette of Puducherry (Part-I), No. 28, dated 2-4-2015 remain unaltered.
(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)
M. GUNASEKARAN,
Under Secretary to Government (Education).
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