Puducherry: CENTAC (Centralized Admission Committee) Puducherry has revised its admission rules for unfilled medical seats, in consultation with the Medical Council of India.

The new regulations affect the allocation of vacant self-financed and administrative seats.

CENTAC is responsible for admissions to MD, MS, MBBS, Dentistry, and Nursing courses across government and private medical colleges in Puducherry.

The recent amendment focuses on unfilled medical seats during the counseling process.

Previously, both self-financed and administrative seats that remained vacant were converted into government-reserved seats.

However, under the new rules, only unfilled self-financed medical seats will be converted into government-reserved seats. Vacant administrative seats in private medical colleges will remain under the control of the colleges themselves, allowing them to reallocate these seats through their own processes.

This change is part of a broader amendment in the admission rules, which currently applies to postgraduate medical courses and will soon extend to junior medical courses, including MBBS.

The amendment was prompted by a legal clarification from the Supreme Court, which ruled that the government could not claim unfilled administrative seats beyond its existing 50% quota in postgraduate courses.

Following this, CENTAC made the revised regulations official.