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CENTAC 2025 counselling is ongoing for various NEET and Non-NEET courses. CENTAC or Central Admission Committee, Puducherry, released the merit list or the list of eligible candidates to participate in the CENTAC NEET 2025 Counselling Round 2, for MBBS, BDS, BAMS and BVSC & AH courses. The registration process was conducted from August 29, 2025, to September 18, 2025, on the official website: centacpuducherry.in.
The Centralised Admission Committee, Pondicherry, is conducting the CENTAC round 3 choice preference (UG non-NEET courses) on its official website: centacpuducherry.in. Candidates can submit their course preferences on or before September 11, 2025, 11 a.m. As many as 1,586 candidates have been included in the CENTAC NEET 2025 Counselling Round 2 merit list for Government Quota, and 5,462 candidates for Management Quota.
- There will be approximately three to four rounds of CENTAC MBBS Admission 2025
- The number of rounds will vary on the basis of the seat vacancy.
- There will be around five to six steps, such as the declaration of merit list, seat matrix, registration, participation in counselling and declaration of seat-allotment result, followed by institute reporting and document verification.
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Key Summary
- The courses Covered under CENTAC are MBBS, BDS, BAMS (Ayurveda), BVSc & AH, Engineering, Pharmacy & other UG programs.
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Other state candidates are eligible based on NEET 2025 score (for medical) or JEE Main/other accepted exams.
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Counselling Mode: Online via centacpuducherry.in
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Reporting Dates: Sept 18–25, 2025.
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The participating colleges are: 8 medical/dental/ayurveda/veterinary + multiple engineering institutions.
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Round 3 CENTAC Counselling (Non-NEET based): Sept 3–27, 2025 (registration, choice filling, allotment, reporting).
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There are 1,780 seats available for MBBS (e.g., JIPMER – 200, IGMC – 180, MGMCRI – 250), BDS: 200 seats, BAMS: 63 seats and BVSc & AH: 85 seats.
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The Application Fee is ₹1,000 (UR), ₹500 (SC/ST/PwD) for Govt Quota
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For Govt + Mgmt Quota: ₹2,000 (UR), ₹1,000 (SC/ST/PwD).
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For Other States (Mgmt only): ₹2,000 / ₹1,000.
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For NRI/OCI/PIO: ₹5,000.
- What is CENTAC?
- CENTAC NEET UG 2025 Counselling Highlights
- CENTAC FAQs
- CENTAC Counselling Dates
4.1 CENTAC 2025 Counselling Round 3
4.2 CENTAC 2025 Counselling Round 2
- CENTAC Counselling Dates FAQs
- CENTAC NEET 2025 Counselling: Course-wise Colleges
- CENTAC NEET 2025 Counselling Seat Matrix
7.1 CENTAC 2025 Government Colleges
7.2 CENTAC 2025 Self-Financing Colleges and Deemed Universities
- CENTAC NEET 2025 Seats: Course-wise
8.1 CENTAC NEET 2025 MBBS Seats
8.2 CENTAC NEET 2025 BDS Seats
8.3 CENTAC NEET 2025 BAMS Seats
8.4 CENTAC NEET 2025 BVSc & AH Seats
- CENTAC 2025 NEET Cutoff
- CENTAC NEET CutOff FAQs
- CENTAC Counselling Photo Guidelines
- CENTAC NEET UG Counselling 2025 Application Fee
- CENTAC 2025 Reservation Criteria
- CENTAC 2025 Reservation Criteria FAQs
What is CENTAC?
CENTAC is a state-level admissions process conducted by the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC), Government of Puducherry, for admissions into various Engineering, Pharmacy, and Medical Programs in various government and private institutions across the state.
- Applicants are shortlisted by their merit scores and the accepted entrance exam scores.
- Admissions through CENTAC are confirmed through counselling.
- Admissions through CENTAC are done through merit scores and scores of the accepted entrance exam, like NEET.
- Applicants from other states may be required to have valid JEE Main, NEET, or other accepted entrance exams.
- Seats are allotted on the basis of the cut-off declared by CENTAC for various institutions and the respective courses they offer.
CENTAC NEET UG 2025 Counselling Highlights
Candidates can check important details related to CENTAC NEET 2025 counselling below:
| Particulars | Details |
|---|---|
| Common Name | CENTAC |
| Conducting Body | Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC), Puducherry |
| Level | Undergraduate |
| Courses offered | MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BVSc & AH |
| Mode of Selection |
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| Mode of Application | Online |
| Number of Participating Institutes | A total of 8 colleges for all the MBBS, BDS, BAMS and BVSc & AH courses. |
| Application Fees | General Category: INR 1,000Reserved Category: INR 500 |
Ques: What is the official website for CENTAC NEET counselling?
Ans: The CENTAC NEET counselling process will be conducted in online mode. The official website of CENTAC is centacpuducherry.in. This is a common website for admission to courses such as Medical, Engineering, Architecture, among others.
Ques: How many rounds are there in CENTAC?
Ans: There isn't a fixed number of rounds for CENTAC counselling, as it depends on the availability of seats and the specific admission cycle. Usually, there are three to four rounds of counselling conducted to fill seats in various professional and degree courses.
- Seat Availability: The number of rounds can vary each year based on the number of vacant seats after previous rounds.
- Filling Quotas: If seats remain unfilled, further rounds are conducted to fill them under different quotas, such as management quota, minority quotas (Telugu and Christian), and NRI quota.
- Final Rounds: Sometimes, if seats still remain unfilled after the main counselling rounds, they may be converted to the management quota, allowing candidates direct admission.
Ques: How many CENTAC MBBS seats are in Pondicherry?
Ans: Pondicherry has 1109 MBBS seats available through CENTAC counselling in its various medical colleges for the 2025 academic year. This includes government and private institutions like Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, PIMS, Sri Venkateswaraa Medical College, and Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College.
CENTAC Counselling Dates
The CENTAC Counselling dates have been released by the authorities for All India (15%) quota. The Round 3 and Round 2 dates are provided here. The reporting or joining dates are 18th to 25th September 2025.
CENTAC 2025 Counselling Round 3
| Verification Of Tentative Seat Matrix | Registration / Payment | Choice Filling / Locking | Processing Of Seat Allotment | Result | Reporting / Joining | Verification Of Joined Candidates |
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| 3rd September 2025(01-Day) | 4th to 14th September 2025, upto 12:00 NOON as per Server Time *Payment facility will be available up to 02:00 PM on 15th September 2025 as per Server Time(11-Days) | 5th to 15th September 2025 (till 08:00 AM) Locking will be available from 01:00 PM on 14th September 2025 upto 08:00 AM on 15th September 2025 as per Server Time(10-Days) | 15th to 16th September 2025(02-Days) | 17th September 2025(01-Day) | 18th to 25th September 2025(08-Days) | 26th to 27th September 2025(02-Days) |
CENTAC 2025 Counselling Round 2
| Verification Of Seat Matrix | Registration/Payment | Choice Filling/Locking | Processing Of Seat Allotment | Result | Reporting/Joining | Verification Of Joined Candidates |
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| 3rd September 2025 (01-Day) | 4th to 14th September 2025, up to 12:00 NOON Payment facility will be available up to 02:00 PM on 15th September 2025 as per Server Time (11-Days) | 5th to 15th September 2025 (till 08:00 AM) Locking will be available from 01:00 PM on 14th September 2025 up to 08:00 AM on 15th September 2025 as per Server Time (10-Days) | 15th to 16th September 2025 (02-Days) | 17th September 2025 (01-Day) | 18th to 25th September 2025 (08-Days) | 26th to 27th September 2025 (02-Days) |
CENTAC Counselling Dates FAQs
Ques: When was Puducherry CENTAC counselling?
Ans: The CENTAC Counselling is over now. The reporting dates are 18th to 25th September 2025. The CENTAC Counselling started in August and will end by September 2025.
Ques: What is the schedule for the CENTAC NEET counselling 2025?
Ans: The CENTAC NEET counselling 2025 schedule is announced separately before each event.
- The registration process for CENTAC NEET 2025 counselling was conducted from July 5 to July 16, 2025.
- The draft merit list was released on July 25, and candidates can submit objections till July 29, 2025, 5 PM.
Accordingly, the schedule for CENTAC NEET 2025 counselling will be from August to December 2025.
CENTAC NEET 2025 Counselling: Course-wise Colleges
The table below shows the available seats for different streams like Medical, Dental, etc and the names of colleges.
| Course | Availability of Seats |
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| Medical | Government, UT of Puducherry – Minority (Christian and Telugu), All India Management, NRI |
| Dental | Government, UT of Puducherry (Minority), All India Management, NRI |
| Ayurveda | Government |
| BVSc & AH | National Self-Supporting and NRI |
CENTAC NEET 2025 Counselling Seat Matrix
In this section, we bring the seat matrix for the MBBS, BDS, BAMS and BVSc & AH courses. The latest seat availability might change depending on the college. You can also check the official website centacpuducherry.in.
CENTAC 2025 Government Colleges
| Government Colleges | Number of Seats |
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| Puducherry Technological University (PTU) / Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry (PEC) | 438 |
| Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Institute of Engg. & Tech., Karaikal (PKIET) | 180 |
| Women’s Engineering College, Puducherry (WEC) | 300 |
CENTAC 2025 Self-Financing Colleges and Deemed Universities
CENTAC NEET 2025 Seats: Course-wise
The course-wise seat matrix for CENTAC 2025 is provided below.
CENTAC NEET 2025 MBBS Seats
The table below brings the MBBS seat matrix for CENTAC NEET UG 2025 counselling.
CENTAC NEET 2025 BDS Seats
The table below brings the BDS seat matrix for CENTAC NEET UG 2025 counselling.
| College | Number of Seats |
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| Mahe Institute of Dental Sciences, Mahe | 100 |
| Sri Venkateshwara Dental College, Puducherry | 100 |
| Total | 200 |
CENTAC NEET 2025 BAMS Seats
The table below brings the BDS seat matrix for CENTAC NEET UG 2025 counselling.
| College | Number of Seats |
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| Rajiv Gandhi Ayurvedic Medical College, Mahe | 63 |
CENTAC NEET 2025 BVSc & AH Seats
The table below brings the BVSc & AH seat matrix for CENTAC NEET UG 2025 counselling.
| College | Number of Seats |
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| Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Veterinary Education and Research (RIVER) | 85 |
CENTAC 2025 NEET Cutoff
NTA released the NEET cutoff 2025 along with the result.
- As compared to last year, the NEET 2025 cutoff has decreased remarkably
- This is due to the high difficulty of the NEET 2025 question paper.
The category-wise NEET cutoff 2025 percentiles and scores are given below:
| Category | NEET 2025 Cutoff percentile | NEET 2025 Cutoff score |
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| UR/EWS | 50th | 686-144 |
| OBC, SC, ST | 40th | 143-113 |
| UR/EWS-PwD | 45th | 143-127 |
| OBC/SC/St-PwD | 40th | 126-113 |
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Ques: What are the cut-off marks for Pondicherry Medical College 2025?
Ans: Pondicherry's 2025 MBBS cutoffs are available for specific colleges like IGMCRI and Aarupadai Veedu, with cutoffs ranging from NEET scores around 353 for Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to higher ranks for other institutions under various categories.
For Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (IGMCRI) Pondicherry:
General Category (All India Quota): Expected to be between 8356 - 22670.
Expected 2025 Rank (General): Around 73312.
For Aarupadai Veedu Medical College (AVMC) Pondicherry:
General Category (All India Quota): The overall closing rank is expected between 593506 and 684493.
Expected 2025 Rank (General): 330174 - 1217052 in Round 4.
For Puducherry State Government Medical College:
Expected NEET 2025 Score: Around 620-630 for General, 600-610 for OBC.
Ques: How to calculate CENTAC cut off?
Ans: You can't calculate the exact CENTAC cutoff, but you can determine it by considering the number of applications, the difficulty of the entrance exams, and previous years' trends.
You can visit the official CENTAC website to find the official merit lists, provisional allotment lists, and seat matrices after each counselling round.
Ques: What is the lowest cut-off for MBBS?
Ans: The NEET-UG 2025 qualifying cutoffs are the minimum eligibility thresholds: 686-144 marks for the General category and 143-113 marks for the OBC/SC/ST categories.
CENTAC Counselling Photo Guidelines
After furnishing all the personal and academic details, candidates have to upload the scanned image of their passport-size photograph in JPEG format. The size of the scanned image should not exceed 50 KB or be less than 20 KB.
| Document | Size and Dimension |
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| Passport-size Photograph | 20 KB to 50 KB |
| Scanned signature | 20 KB to 50 KB |
| Birth Certificate/Higher Secondary School Certificate for Birth Date Verification | 100 KB to 500 KB |
| Mark sheets of qualifying exams | 100 KB to 500 KB |
| NEET UG 2025 Scorecard | 100 KB to 500 KB |
| Transfer Certificate from the school last studied in | 100 KB to 500 KB |
| Residence/Community/EWS Certificates (if applicable) | 100 KB to 500 KB |
| Regional Claim for UG Professional Courses | 100 KB to 500 KB |
| Freedom Fighter / Ex-Servicemen / Person with Disabilities / Sports Certificates, if applicable | 100 KB to 500 KB |
CENTAC NEET UG Counselling 2025 Application Fee
The following table brings the application fee for the CENTAC NEET UG 2025 counselling process:
| Quota | Application Fee for Unreserved Category | Application Fee in INR for SC/ST/PWD Category |
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| Government | 1,000 | 500 |
| Government & Management Quota | 2,000 | 1,000 |
| Other States (Management Quota only eligible) | 2,000 | 1,000 |
| NRI/NRI-SP/OCI/PIO | 5,000 | NA |
CENTAC 2025 Reservation Criteria
- CENTAC 2025 Reservation Criteria is set as per the government norms and regulations.
- Seat reservation is applicable for seats offered in various courses by each institute.
Given below is the distribution of seats through CENTAC 2025:
| Categories | Reservation (%) |
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| Vertical Reservation | |
| General | 50 |
| Other Backward Classes (OBC) | 11 |
| Backward Classes Muslims (BCM) | 2 |
| Most Backward Classes (MBC) | 18 |
| Extreme Backward Classes (EBC) | 2 |
| Backward Tribes | 1 |
| Scheduled Caste (ST) | 16 |
| Horizontal Reservation | |
| Children/Grandchildren of Freedom (Fighter (FF) | 4 |
| Physically Challenged | 3 |
| Wards of Ex-Servicemen | 1 or 3** |
| Candidates who are Meritorious in Sports (SP) | 1 |
CENTAC 2025 Reservation Criteria FAQs
Ques.What is the reservation percentage in Puducherry?
Ans: The reservation percentages for Puducherry vary:
- The Union Territory reserves 75% of seats for Puducherry residents in its higher education institutions
- The remaining 25% for other state candidates.
- Additionally, there is a 10% reservation for students from government schools in non-NEET and medical courses
- Separate reservations for Scheduled Castes (15%), Scheduled Tribes (7.5%), and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) at the national level.
Ques: Can I get MBBS with 450 marks in SC category?
Ans: A 600+ score is safe for state government medical colleges for General category students out there. OBC candidates need to score 580+ marks, and SC/ST students may get admission with 450-550 marks, depending on the state-wise cutoff.
*The article might have information for the previous academic years, which will be updated soon subject to the notification issued by the University/College.
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