Delhi: The Dental Council of India (DCI) has released the counselling schedule for BDS Admissions 2023.

The Dental Council had earlier announced the counseling schedule for BDS round 4 and the stray vacancy round. Now, after a discussion with the Directorate General of Health Services, the corrected counseling schedule has been released on the official website.
As per the new schedule released, round 4, the registration process will begin from 3rd Oct, 2023 to 4th Oct., 2023. The payment facility will be available till 03:00 PM of 4th Oct., 2023. The choice filling and choice locking will be carried out from 3rd Oct, 2023 to 4th Oct., 2023. The seat allotment process will be carried out on 5th Oct, 2023, and the result will be 6th Oct., 2023. The reporting can be done from 7th Oct, 2023 to 10th Oct., 2023.

DCI has further announced the conduction of 2nd online stray vacancy round for all deemed universities/central universities. For this round, no registration is required. The process of choice filling and choice locking will be carried out on 11th Oct., 2023. The processing of seat allotment will be done on 12th Oct., 2023. The reporting process will be carried out from 13th Oct., 2023 to 15th Oct., 2023.
The counseling process for round 3 has begun from today. The process of registration will be carried out till 4th Sept., 2023. Choice filling and locking can be done from 1st Sept., 2023 to 5th Sept, 2023. The processing of seat allotment will be done from 6th Sept. , 2023 to 7th Sept., 2023. The result will be declared on 8th Sept., 2023. On 9th Sept., 2023, the candidates must upload the documents on MCC portal. The reporting will be carried from 10th Sept, 2023 to 18th Sept., 2023.
The stray vacancy round will commence from 21st Sept., 2023. The registration process can be carried out from 21st Sept., 2023 to 23rd Sept., 2023. The choice filling and locking can be done from 22nd Sept., 2023 to 24th Sept., 2023. The processing of seat allotment will be done on 25th Sept., 2023. The result will be declared on 26th Sept., 2023. The process of reporting will be carried out from 27th Sept. to 30th Sept., 2023.
Further, the academic session for BDS courses will begin from 10th Sept., 2023.
Detailed schedule –
ROUND-3
SL. No. Verification of Tentative Seat Matrix by the participating Institutes Registration/Paymen t Choice Filling/ Locking Result Uploading of documents by the candidates on MCC portal Reporting Verification of Joined candidates Data by institutes
1 31st Aug., 2023 to 4th Sept., 2023 ( 12:00 NOON as per Server Time) * Payment facility will be available upto 4th Sept., 2023 (till 08:00 PM ) as per Server Time 1st Sept., 2023 to 5th Sept, 2023 ( till 11:55 PM) as per Server Time C hoice Locking will be available from 03:00 P.M of 5th Sept., 2023 upto 11:55 PM of 5th Sept., 2023 as per Server Time 6th Sept. , 2023 to 7th Sept., 2023 8th Sept., 2023 9th Sept., 2023 10th Sept, 2023 to 18th Sept., 2023 19th Sept., 2023 to 20th Sept., 2023
(2-Days) (5-Days) (5-Days) (1-Day) (1-Day) (9-Days) (2-Days)
STRAY VACANCY ROUND
2 21st Sept., 2023 to 23rd Sept., 2023 (12:00 NOON as per Server Time) * Payment facility will be available upto 23rd Sept., 2023 (till 08:00 PM ) as per Server Time 22nd Sept., 2023 to 24th Sept., 2023 (till 11:55 PM) as per Server Time C hoice Locking will be available from 03:00 P.M of 24th Sept., 2023 upto 11:55 PM on 24th Sept., 2023 as per Server Time 25th Sept., 2023 26th Sept., 2023 27th Sept. to 30th Sept., 2023
(3-Days) (3-Days) (1-Day) (1-Day) (4-Days)

ROUND - 4
3 3rd Oct, 2023 to 4th Oct., 2023 (up to 12:00 NOON of 04.10.2023 as per the server timing) *Payment facility will be available till 03:00 PM of 4th Oct., 2023 (as per Server timing) 3rd Oct, 2023 to 4th Oct., 2023 Choice Locking will be available from 04:00 PM up to 11:59 PM of 4th Oct., 2023 (as per Server timing) 5th Oct, 2023 6th Oct., 2023 7th Oct, 2023 to 10th Oct., 2023 (up to 05:00 PM as per the Server timing)
(2-Days) (2-Days) (1-Day) (1-Day) (2-Days)
2nd ONLINE STRAY VACANCY ROUND FOR ALL DEEMED UNIVERSITIES/CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES
4 11th Oct., 2023 C hoice Locking will be available from 04:00 PM up to 11:59 PM of 11th Oct., 2023 12th Oct., 2023 13th Oct., 2023 13th to 15th O ct., 2023 (up to 05:00 PM as per the Server timing)
(1-Day) (1-Day) (1-Day) (3-Days)
Commencement of Academic Session for BDS Courses from 10th Sept., 2023
To view the notice, click on the link below -
https://.in/pdf_upload/counselling-schedulebds-217984.pdf