(D) The mode of Conduct of Classes shall be as applicable for Regular Programs as defined in the AICTE Public Notice Vide. No. AICTE/AB/Academic/2020-21, dated 13th August 2020 (In Regular Face to Face Mode).

(E) Minimum admission required to run the course shall be one third of the approved intake in each course.

(F) One Seat in every Institute shall be Reserved for Candidates working in Central Government Organizations or Industries or Companies or Autonomous Organizations purely on MERIT Basis. In absence of any such Candidate, the vacant seat shall be transferred to General Category.

(i) Working Professionals provisionally admitted in a course of the institute where total admissions in a course are less than one third of approved intake of the course after pre cut-off date for admissions shall be transferred strictly on merit basis in the nearby institute within fifty kilo meters radial distance from the working industry or organization in the same course or different course in case vacancy exists in nearby institutes on the request of the candidate.

(ii) Provisional Admission of the candidate shall be cancelled automatically if the candidate is not able to secure the admission on merit against vacancy in other institutes.

(iii) This process of transfer shall be carried out between pre cut-off date and cut-off date for admissions to working professionals.

(iV) Institute having admissions below 1/3 rd admissions after pre cut-off date has to refund full fees to the candidate in case of cancellation/transfer of admission immediately within two days of cancellation/transfer of admission.

(G) Any other eligibility criteria and requirement declared from time to time by the appropriate authority and AICTE as defined under the Act.

(iv) The Application processing fee shall be as notified by the competent authority from time to time and the amount is Non Refundable.

(v) The list of the Facilitation Centers shall be published on the website. The Facilitation center shall facilitate the candidate to fill the Online Application Form, scan and upload the required documents.

(vi) The Candidates will also be able to fill in Online Application Form and upload the scanned copies of the required documents through any computer/device connected to internet.

(vii) Candidates are required to fill in all the details as per the instructions and Upload scanned images of valid necessary original documents as per the requirement of the admission while filling online application form.

(viii) Candidate can edit/update the information in his application form before he confirms it at any of the Facilitation Centre.

(ix) After filling the information and submission of Application Form, the Candidates shall verify the data filled and correct it, if required. The candidate shall take printout of the submitted application form and sign it.

(x) The Printout of form shall have list of documents required to be produced by the candidate for substantiating his claim made in the application form. The candidate shall carry a set of photo copies of the required documents.

(a) Document Verification at Facilitation Centre by the Candidate or through the method prescribed by the Competent Authority for this purpose. It is mandatory on the candidate’s part to produce all original documents in support of the claim made in the application form. After confirmation of application form, information cannot be changed by candidate.

(b) Display or Publishing of Provisional merit list, Submission of grievances, if any, through the method prescribed by the Competent Authority for this purpose and Display or Publishing of Final Merit Lists;
i. Provisional Merit List of eligible candidates will be displayed on the website.
ii. For discrepancy if any, in the provisional merit list, within specified grievance period, Candidates can submit the grievances through the method prescribed by the Competent Authority for this purpose.
iii. No document shall be accepted to substantiate the claim made in application after scheduled dates.
Final merit lists will be displayed on the website

(c) Display of Category wise Seats (Seat Matrix) available for respective CAP Rounds. The Competent Authority shall publish the information on the website about institutes, courses offered, Sanctioned intake and number of seats available for each category before each round.

(d) Filling up and confirmation of online option form having preferences of Courses and Institutions prior to respective CAP Rounds. Candidates may fill in preferences of Institutes and Courses in decreasing order of their preference as specified by Competent Authority. The option form once confirmed by the candidate through their login shall be considered for allotment in the respective CAP Rounds; Candidates may fill in maximum 300 choices of Institutes and Courses in decreasing order of their preference;

(i) In order to participate in the CAP (subject to fulfillment of the eligibility requirements of respective CAP round), it is MANDATORY to fill the Online Option Form for respective CAP Round.

(ii) Candidates will be able to fill in the online option form through their login. It is mandatory for all candidates to confirm the online option form.

(i) Candidates should not disclose their Application ID & Password to others to avoid impersonation. Competent Authority shall not be responsible for submissions done by others on behalf of the candidate. For Security reasons, candidates are instructed to keep changing the password and keep note of it in secured place.

(ii) The serial number of block in the option form indicates preference of choice. Thus the choice code of the institute filled by the candidate in block No. 1 will be considered as first preference (Highest Priority Choice).

(iii) Option form received through online submission only will be considered for further processing.

(iv) Candidate shall confirm the submitted on-line Option Form by re-entering Application ID and Password. The candidate can take a printout of the confirmed Option form for his record and future reference.

(v) The candidate can fill in minimum 1 and maximum 300 options. The candidate shall fill the institute choice code against the option number in the online option form.

(e) Display of Provisional Allotment of respective CAP Round indicating allotted institute and Course.

(f) Reporting and accepting the offered seat at Admission Reporting Centre by the Candidate as per the schedule declared by the Competent Authority through the method prescribed by the Competent Authority for the purpose of accepting the offered seat and rectifying the errors as per the clause (e) of sub-rule (4) of this rule.

(g) Only after reporting to ARC or by self scrutiny of the document uploaded in online application system as per clause (i), the candidate should report to the allotted institute for seeking admission on the allotted seat as per final allotment in CAP rounds.

(h) The time schedule prescribed by the competent authority for compliances for various stages of CAP is mandatory.

Conduct of CAP Round-I

(a) The seats available for Round- I shall be published on the website. The candidate whose name is appeared in the final merit list of CAP shall be eligible to participate in this round by filling online option form. The candidate shall fill and confirm the option form through candidate’s Login. If a candidate is allotted the seat as per his first preference, such allotment shall be auto freezed and the candidate shall accept the allotment so made. Such candidate shall not be eligible for participation in the subsequent CAP rounds. Such candidates shall then report to ARC for verification of documents or the candidate may scrutinize the document uploaded in online application system himself and such candidate shall make payment of seat acceptance fee himself in online mode. Thereafter such candidates shall report to the allotted institute and seek admission to the allotted seat. If such candidate does not report to ARC or fails to carry out self scrutiny of the document uploaded in online application system for confirmation of seat acceptance, then their claim on the allotted seat shall stand forfeited automatically and the seat shall become available for fresh allotment. For such candidate, the allotment so made shall be the final allotment;

(b) Candidate who have been allotted seat other than the first preference given by the candidate and if the candidate is satisfied with such allotment and do not wish to participate in further CAP rounds, such candidate may freeze the offered seat through candidate’s login. Once the candidate freezes the allotted seat, such candidate shall then report to the ARC or the candidate may scrutinize the document uploaded in online application system himself and such candidate shall make payment of seat acceptance fee himself in online mode. Thereafter, such candidate shall report to the allotted institute and seek admission on the allotted seat. For such candidate, the allotment so made shall be the final allotment. If such candidate does not report to ARC or fails to carry out self-scrutiny of the document uploaded in online application system for confirmation of seat acceptance, their claim on the allotted seat shall stand forfeited automatically and the seat shall become available for fresh allotment. Such candidate shall then be not eligible for participation in the subsequent CAP rounds;

(c) Candidate who have been allotted seat other than first preference and accepted the seat by reporting to ARC or by self-scrutinising of the document uploaded in online application system for confirmation of seat acceptance, shall be eligible for participation in the subsequent rounds for betterment;

(d) Candidate who have been allotted seat other than first preference and not accepted the seat by not reporting to ARC or fails to carry out self-scrutiny of the document uploaded in online application system for confirmation of seat acceptance shall be eligible for participation in the subsequent rounds.

Conduct of CAP Rounds - II & III

(a) The seats available for Rounds II and III shall be published on the website by the CET Cell. The candidates eligible for respective Rounds II and III are allowed to fill in and/or edit online option form filled in by the candidate for the previous round. The seats to be allotted during these rounds shall be available to the Eligible Candidate falling under the following categories:
(i) candidates as per the clauses (d) and (e) of sub-rule (2) of this rule;
(ii) candidates who have not been allotted any seat in any of the previous rounds;
(iii) candidates who did not participate (failure of filling option form) in previous rounds.
Candidates who have been allotted seat other than first preference and reported to ARC or self-scrutinised the document uploaded in online application system for confirmation of seat acceptance, whilst filling fresh option form, he need not fill the preference already allotted to the candidate in the previous round. Once upward preference is allotted to such candidate, his earlier seat allotment shall stand automatically cancelled. In the event of no such upward preference is allotted, his previous allotment stands retained;

(b) There shall be no further betterment option available to the candidate after Round III. The allotment made and/or allotment retained in Round III for participating candidates in Round III shall be final. However, for Working Professionals, there shall be no further betterment option available after Round II. The allotment made and/or allotment retained in Round II for participating Working Professionals in Round II shall be final.

(c) At the time of reporting for admission to ARC or in self-scrutiny of the document uploaded in online application system as per the method prescribed by the Competent Authority, the candidate shall produce all the original documents in support of the claims made in the application:
Provided that, if the candidate has allotted seat on the basis of claim made in the application and fails to produce the documents in support of the claim so made in the application, the allotment shall stand cancelled automatically and the seat shall become available for allotment in further rounds:
Provided further that, if candidate is allotted seat without availing any benefit claimed in the application, in such case the allotment of the candidate shall be retained and he shall be allowed to modify his application accordingly, as per the provisions of clause (e) of sub-rule (3) of this rule;

(d) The candidate shall be entitled to rectify the following errors in the application form at the time of scrutiny of documents at ARC:
(i) change of gender from male to female and vice-versa;
(ii) error while entering marks obtained by candidate in examination, CET: Provided that, the change in the merit number due to increase in the marks shall not be permitted;
(iii) error while mentioning the caste or sub-caste or the category of reserved class but in no case a candidate shall be allowed to change from General to Reserved Category. A reserved category candidate shall be allowed to change his category from Reserved to General upon his failure to submit requisite documents like Caste or Tribe Certificate, Validity Certificate, Non-Creamy Layer Certificate etc., as the case may be.
(iv) removal of minority status due to failure of submission of supporting documents;
(v) removal of Disability status due to failure of submission of supporting documents;
(vi) removal of Defence status due to failure of submission of supporting documents;
(vii) removal of Orphan status due to failure of submission of supporting documents;
(viii) change in Type of Candidature for the Maharashtra State Candidate;
(ix) change in the Home University;
(x) removal of Tuition Fee Waiver Seats (TFWS) status due to failure of submission of supporting documents;
(xi) change in qualification.
(xii) Apart from the above no other change or rectification shall be allowed.

Reporting to the institution

The candidate shall report to the Institution finally allotted to him and confirm his admission in institution as per the schedule. The Institute shall verify the required documents and upload the admission of the candidates in the online system through Institute login immediately and shall issue a system generated receipt of confirmation of admission to the candidate.

Fees and Concessions

(a) Fees Prescribed for Government, Government Aided Institutes and University Managed Engineering /Technology Degree Courses: Fee structure for these institutes shall be as prescribed by the Government of Maharashtra from time to time.

(b) Fees prescribed in Unaided Private Professional Educational Institutions: The Adhoc / Interim fee structure shall be as approved by the Fee Regulating Authority established under the Act. The final fee approved and published by the Fee Regulating Authority for that year shall be the fee payable by the candidate for that course for that academic year.

(c) Details of Concession in fees for Backward Class Category and Economically Weaker Section Candidates (belonging to Maharashtra State only): For SC/ST/VJDTNT(A)/NT(B)/NT(C)/NT(D)/SBC/OBC/SEBC and EWS category candidates, the scheme/mode of concessions, scheme of loan scholarship (if any) for eligible candidates, in tuition and other fees will be announced by the Central/ State Government. These candidates will get only that amount of waiver as notified in the circulars issued by the Government Department from time to time, subject to fulfillment of norms and conditions laid down by these Departments. Candidates claiming fee concession under various categories shall produce the requisite certificates as may be specified by the respective Government Departments.

(d) Fees for Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Migrant Candidates and North East and Union Territory Candidates admitted by appropriate authority: These candidates shall pay the fees as applicable to the Non Autonomous Government institutes (as given in 9(5)(a)). Candidates shall also pay additional fees as prescribed by the concerned University from time to time.