Kerala PG dental stray vacancy allotment 2025 begins: Register now

Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, has commenced, the activities related to the Online Stray Vacancy Allotment to the vacant seats in Post Graduate Dental Courses (MDS) -2025 in Dental Colleges in the State, at www.cee.kerala.gov.in

This allotment will be conducted to fill up the currently available General Category vacant seats and vacancies arising, if any. The net vacant seats due to Un-allotted/Non joining after the Third round is published at the website. Candidates may register options to any seats they wish to join, if allotted, irrespective of the vacancy status notified. Reservation /Category seats are not available as the unallotted seats were converted during the final phase of centralised allotment as per MDS Prospectus 2025 clause 18.1.1.

Candidates who have applied afresh for admission to PG Dental Course due to lowering of minimum qualifying percentile vide CEE office Notification dated 20.08.2025 can also register options for considering them in this stray vacancy allotment. However, those eligible candidates who are included in the Kerala State Merit List will only be considered for allotment. The State Merit List of the newly qualified candidates due to lowering of the percentile will be published.

Candidates (i) who vacated the seat after 04 pm on 13.08.2025 (ii) who have been included in the MCC list of allotted/admitted candidates after the Third round/stray round allotment (iii) who joined the allotted seats through the allotments conducted by CEE and still continuing in the allotted seat (iv) who have been allotted seats in the third round (v) already holding a seat/joined or allotted through AIQ/ State Counselling including Private/Deemed quota seats are not eligible to participate in this Stray Vacancy Allotment.

Registration Fee: There will be separate Registration fee for this round. The registration fee will be the annual tuition fee amount of the seat opted, if opted only for government seats, or an amount of Rs.1,00,000/- (Rupees One lakh only), if opted also for private self-financing colleges. Those who have paid any Registration fee to the CEE through previous rounds of counselling, but not allotted any seat, must pay the balance amount, if any, as Stray Vacancy Registration fee. Those who got allotment in the first and second round but did not join and those who vacated the seat in the first and second round allotments must pay registration fee afresh as mentioned above. For SC/ST/OEC and other eligible candidates having fee concession, the registration fee will be half of the above amounts respectively. The registration fee paid for stray vacancy allotment will be adjusted in the fee of the course, if the candidates get an allotment or else will be refunded after the end of counselling. The registration fee paid for stray vacancy phase of those candidates who do not join the seat allotted in stray vacancy filling allotment will be treated as penalty and will not be refunded. Liquidated damages will also be applicable as per MDS 2025 Prospectus clause 19.5.

Options can be registered till 11.59 pm on 31.08.2025. Candidates may enter their Application Number & Password in the link ‘PG Dental 2025 Candidate Portal’ provided in the above website to log on to their home page. By clicking the menu ‘Stray Vacancy Registration’ candidates can register their options. The allotment will be based on the rank list and the online options received up to 11.59 pm on 31.08.2025. Provisional Stray Vacancy Allotment will be published on 01.09.2025 and the final Stray Vacancy Allotment on 02.09.2025. Candidates who get allotment must join the allotted colleges by paying the fees to the allotted college during 03.09.2025 and 4 pm on 08.09.2025. Candidates who belong to SC/ST/OEC/Children of Fisherman/Inmates of Sri Chithra home, Nirbhaya home, Juvenile home are exempted from payment of fees.

Those candidates (including SC/ST/OEC Students) who discontinue the PG Dental course after stray vacancy counselling, must pay liquidated damages as stipulated in prospectus clause 19.5. If a service candidate discontinues the PG Dental course after the stray vacancy counselling, he/she will have to pay liquidated damages as per clause 11.5.

All details related to the counselling/allotment process are available in the Prospectus for admission to PG Dental Courses-2025, available at www.cee.kerala.gov.in

Helpline number: 0471 – 2332120, 2338487