INI CET July 2024: AIIMS Begins Open Round Counselling, 636 Seats Available for candidates

The registration and exercise of options for the open round of online seat allocation for the Institutes of National Importance Joint Entrance Test (INI-CET) for the July 2024 session for admission to PG courses started from today i.e. 24th July 2024 and will continue till 30th July 2024. Therefore, candidates need to register online for the Open Round of Seat Allocation by 05:00 pm on Tuesday, the 30th July 2024 on the AIIMS official website.

All candidates who have registered for the Open Round of Seat Allocation are required to complete all necessary formalities and exercising choices till 30 August 2024 (05:00 pm). After the final submission/closing date and time, no changes in the choice of order of preference will be allowed. The candidates can make any number of choices, edit the choices and reorder the choices.

These PG courses are offered for the July 2024 session at AIIMS, New Delhi, as well as other AIIMS, JIPMER Puducherry, NIMHANS Bengaluru, PGIMER Chandigarh, and SCTIMST Thiruvananthapuram, for MD, MS, M.Ch. (6 years), DM (6 years), and MDS admissions. INI-CET for the July 2024 session was conducted on Sunday, May 19, 2024, and its examination centres will be held in all cities across India.

SCHEDULE FOR OPEN ROUND OF ONLINE SEAT ALLOCATION

STEPS TO REGISTER FOR THE OPEN ROUND OF ONLINE SEAT ALLOCATION

STEP 1- To Register go to AIIMS official website.

STEP 2- Select your desired course “[MD/MS.(M.Ch.(6yrs.)/DM(6yrs.)]” / “MDS” under the “Academic Courses” tab and then click on the “Registration/Login” under General Links to proceed further to register.

STEP 3- Enter your Registration ID and Password to log in.

STEP 4- On “My Page” click on the “Register for Open Round of Seat Allocation” link.

STEP 5- Opt for choice to register for the Open Round of Seat Allocation.

Candidates who have appeared in INI-CET PG for the July 2024 session held on Sunday, 19th May 2024 and obtained the following percentile will be deemed to be provisionally eligible (subject to other criteria) to participate in the Open Round of Seat Allocation-

1 Unreserved (UR)/EWS/Foreign National/OCI - 50th percentile.

2 OBC, SC, ST, PwBD - 45th percentile.

3 Bhutani National – 45th percentile.

All provisionally eligible candidates who do not hold any seat by allotment and wish to participate in the Open Round of Seat Allotment are required to deposit Rs.3.00 lakh through RTGS/NEFT by 5 PM on 30 August 2024. The details of the Transaction with Transaction ID/UTR number, Date of Transaction, Name of the Bank and amount of electronic fund transfer should be updated in the online registration form of Open round of seat allocation with uploading of print of the electronic fund transfer.

All candidates who have been allocated a seat in the open round are required to join the allocated seat at the allotted institute by 5 pm on 22 August 2024. If the candidate does not join the allocated seat, then the security deposited amount of Rs.3 Lakh will be forfeited and no correspondence will be entertained in this regard.

All candidates are required to deposit Rs. 3,00,000.00 as security are required to provide the bank details with a scanned copy of the cheque of the bank account in which the refund (if any) is to be credited; as required in the portal. The refund (if any) will be processed in due course after the closure of all processes and verification from all aspects. No correspondence regarding early refunds will be entertained.

Candidates will be allowed to fill choices for any Subject/Speciality for which there was any seat published before the 1st round of counselling irrespective of the published vacancy of the Open Round, as during allotment for the Open Round, vacancy in any Subject/Speciality may change.

OBC(NCL)/EWS CANDIDATES

The status of the applicable reserve category for all OBC/EWS candidates participating in the Open Round of Seat Allocation will be considered as per verification done before 1st round of online seat allocation. The OBC/EWS certificate must be valid for admission to Central Govt. Institution. The validity of OBC/EWS certification should be as follows-

1 Date(s) of valid OBC(NCL) certificate- The OBC(-NCL) certificates should have been issued between 20 May 2023 to 19 May 2024 (date of Exam) both dates inclusive.

2 Date(s) of valid EWS certificate- The EWS certificate must be valid for the financial year 2024- 2025 and issued between 01 April 2024 to 19 May 2024 (on or before the date of the Exam), both dates inclusive based on the income of the year 2023-2024.

Candidates availing of constitutional reservation must show valid proof of their claim for a reserved seat at the allocated Institute when they are depositing original certificates. In case they do not possess a valid certificate then their claim for the reserved seat allocated will be nullified. The OBC/EWS certificate must be valid for admission to Central Govt. Institution.

Produce printout of the Registration slip & Admit Card at the time of joining along with all original certificates and one set of Photocopy of certificates.

All Certificates including claims for constitutional reservation will be subject to verification. Candidature can be cancelled at any stage further if any of the documents is found to be invalid.

Candidates availing PWBD horizontal reservation must show valid proof of their claim for allocated reserved seats at the reporting INIs when they are depositing original certificates. Confirmation of admission shall be subjected to verification of Disability by the Medical Board of INIs for all candidates (more details will be provided in the result of the Open round of seat allocation). In case they do not possess a valid certificate then their claim for the reserved seat allocated will be nullified, and they will be eligible to appear further in their respective category (UR/OBC/SC/ST/EWS) candidate as applicable without PWBD reservation subject to cut off in respective category.

UPPER AGE LIMIT

1 NIMHANS, Bengaluru (As on 1st July 2024)- The age validation for Courses of NIMHANS under INI-CET for the July 2024 session.

For the MD Psychiatry Course

i General/Unreserved Category’- 32 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1992 are eligible).

ii ‘OBC Category’- 35 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1989 are eligible).

iii ‘SC/ST Category’-37 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1987 are eligible).

iv ‘Sponsored Category’- 45 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1979 are eligible).

For DM (Neurology), M.Ch. Neurosurgery (Post MBBS category) Course & MD Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

i 32 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1992 are eligible).

2 SCTIMST Trivandrum (As on 1st July 2024)- The age validation for Courses of SCTIMST under INI-CET for the July 2024 session.

i General/Unreserved/OBC/EWS/Sponsored/Foreign National category- 40 Years (candidates Born on or after 01.07.1984 are eligible).

ii SC/ST – 45 Years (Candidates Born on or after 01.07.1979 are eligible).

All candidates who have been allocated a seat in any previous round of seat allocation and have joined/reported on the allocated seat as per the procedure of joining/reporting & holding the seat and wish to participate in the open round are allowed to participate, subject to following-

1 If any Seat is being allocated to them out of choices filled in the open round, the original allocated seat (currently holding) shall be automatically vacated (deemed resignation) during the allocation process and such seat will be offered to other candidates in the open round in order of merit subject to rules applicable in respective INIs.

2 All such candidates should be liable to pay penalty as applicable at respective INIs and penalty if any applicable as per INI-CET Seat allocation rules. In addition, accrued salary (if any) / Stipend will be forfeited.

3 All such candidates by registering and filling choices for an open round are deemed to have agreed as above without any separate confirmation or notice

5 Please take utmost care, read and understand the above carefully before participating in the open round.

Any seat of the July 2024 session falling vacant because of resignation (after joining) will be added during allocation.

Any seat that remains unfilled will be converted in the Open round. At JIPMER respective reserve Category roster points will be filled from the unreserved candidate in case no reserve category candidate is available in the respective reserve category at the roster point under consideration for allocation.

Meanwhile, as per the vacant seat positions, there are a total of 636 Available for the Open Round of Online Seat allocation for admission to PG courses of INIs [(MD/MS/DM(6 years)/MCh(6 years)/MDS] for INI-CET July 2024 session. Below are the detailed vacant seat positions.

VACANT SEAT POSITIONS OF MD/MS/DM(6 YEARS)/MCh(6 YEARS)

VACANT SEAT POSITIONS FOR FOREIGN NATIONAL/SPONSORED

To view the information brochure, click the link below

To view the vacant seat positions, click the link below