Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE), Kerala has notified the schedule and invited options for the Centralized Allotment to Post Graduate Dental (MDS) Courses Kerala for the year 2024. 

Candidates should click ‘PG Dental 2024-Candidate Portal’ at www.cee.kerala.gov.in, enter their Application Number and Password to access their home page. They can then register their options online by clicking the menu ‘Option Registration’ available in the home page. There are 3 Government Dental and 17 Private Self-financing Dental colleges included in the process. The list of Dental Colleges/Courses to which the CEE makes allotment is provided in the Home page of the candidate and in the Notification at www.cee.kerala.gov.in. Candidates can give options as per their priority of the Course/College combinations in the option list latest by 5 pm on 19.07.2024. A candidate should give options to a Course-College combination only if he/she is sure to join the course and college, under the chosen quota, if allotted. 

Security deposit: A security deposit / option registration fee of Rs. 10,000/- will have to be paid at the time of option registration. It will be Rs.5000/- for SC/ST/OEC and other candidates who are eligible for fee concession. It will not be possible to change the registration fee once paid. The registration fee of those candidates who do not get allotment will be refunded after the completion of the entire counselling process. The registration fee will be adjusted to the course fee if a candidate gets allotment. The registration fee of those candidates who do not join within the stipulated time after getting the allotment and those candidates who quit the seats after taking admission will be considered as penalty and will not be refunded. 

Allotment conditions: If a candidate is allotted a seat in the first round and has joined the allotted seat, his/her higher options will be retained and all those options listed below the allotted option will automatically be deleted thus enabling only upgradation/retention in the same seat. 

In the second phase counselling, there will not be any facility for fresh option registration for the candidates. Only option confirmation /deletion/rearrangement of the existing options is possible. Option confirmation is compulsory to participate in Round 2. Option registration will be available in the next phase only to new courses if any, added to the list at that stage. 

After the first two rounds of counselling, third/final round counselling will start, which offers fresh option registration to candidates. The conversion of seats if any will be carried out during the final round of allotment. A fresh option registration fee will be implemented to all candidates, who register fresh options in the final round. After the final round allotment, if any vacancies exist or arise, those vacancies shall be filled through Stray vacancy filling allotment. This may be conducted in online or offline mode as decided  by the CEE at the time. 

Those who seek admission under Minority/NRI quota in Self Financing Dental Colleges should register options online to the desired courses/colleges, during the time of online option registration for first phase itself. The nativity/community/category claims (including Minority/NRI/Inservice quota) made by candidates in online application will be rejected, if required documents are not uploaded in online application within the stipulated time. Candidates who do not register options shall not be considered for allotment under Minority/NRI quota even if they are included in the respective category lists.

The allotment to service quota seats will be conducted during the subsequent phases of allotment. However, those service quota candidates who have opted for general quota also should give options in this phase itself. 

Changes, if any, in the fee structure of Government Dental Colleges, will be published by the Government. The fees shown in respect of Self-Financing Dental Colleges are provisional and subject to changes as decided by the Admission Supervisory Committee/Government. 

The allotment to Colleges / Courses will be subject to recognition of All India Regulatory Bodies / Affiliation from the Universities concerned. All details related to the allotment process are available at www.cee.kerala.gov.in  

Candidates should visit the above website regularly for Notifications and announcements regarding allotment. 

Profile Correction: CEE has also extended the last date for verification of Candidate Portal and rectification of defects in documents up to 3 pm on 18.07.2024. More details in this regard can be obtained from the notification dated 11.07.2024 published in the website www.cee.kerala.gov.in 

Helpline number: 0471- 2525300