Puducherry NEET PG 2025
State Counselling Guide

You are in 2 counselling processes.

• MCC — All India Quota, DNB and NBE seats, every deemed seat. About half the seats.
• Your state — its own state-quota seats. About the other half.

Separate registration for each. Separate dates. Separate fee.

In Puducherry, Pondicherry Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) holds your state seats — 4 rounds (Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Stray Vacancy Round).

The steps, in order:

1. Registration — pay the fee, create your account on the portal (MCC or your state’s).
2. Choice filling — you rank every seat you would actually join, in the order you want it.
3. Lock — choices close at a fixed deadline; the list is frozen, no more edits or reordering after.
4. Allotment — the system goes straight down your list and gives you the first seat still open at your rank.
5. Freeze or Float — accept and stop (Freeze), or stay in line for something higher while your current seat is held (Float).
6. Report + deposit — verify documents, pay the seat deposit.
7. Later rounds — Round 2, Round 3 (mop-up), and a stray-vacancy round fill what is left; floating carries you into the next round automatically.
8. Upgrade / exit — you can move up in a later round, or step away — but only Round 1 lets you leave without losing the deposit.

2026 change on MCC seats: After each allotment you now choose Freeze or Float. Freeze = accept and stop: you report once at the allotted college for document verification and fee, and you’re done. Float = accept but stay in line for a higher choice: under the 2026 reform you do not report physically while floating — your provisional admission stays valid online as you take the next rounds. Upgradation is open up to Round 3; after Round 3 anyone still holding a seat reports physically to finish.

This reform is MCC’s own — it covers AIQ, deemed and central seats only. Puducherry’s own counselling (held by CENTAC) sets its own process; check with them for how upgrades work on your state seats.