GATE CCMT 2021 Counselling, Eligibility, Dates, Admission Process

The GATE CCMT 2021:  counselling is conducted to provide admission to GATE qualified candidates into the postgraduate programs at NITs and other participating institutes. The authorities have also increased the total number of CCMT participating institutes from 46 to 49. 

• The allotment of seats is entirely based on merit, selection of courses and institutes, and availability of seats. Candidates must have a valid GATE Scorecard during the time of counselling process. You can participate in the 2021 counselling process based on your 2019/2020/2021 GATE scores. 
• A new feature of online document verification has been introduced by CCMT. After seat allotment and payment of seat acceptance fees, candidates will be required to upload their required documents online. 
• Candidates will have to pay the balance admission fee to the respective Institute in the online mode after the successful completion of online document verification.

Important: The Sepcical Round 2 result of GATE CCMT 2020 Counselling for admission into NITs has been released on September 8, 2020, and the last date for Payment of Seat Acceptance Fee, Document uploading, and specifying Willingness is September 11, 2020. Check Here

Highlights

• Only Participating Institutes will work as Reporting Centres (RC) for the cousnelling process of GATE 2021. 
• 3 New participating institutes have been added in the list – Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kurnool, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Aurangabad and School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal.

Name of the Process	CCMT (Centralized Counselling for M.Tech. / M.Arch./ M.Plan.)
Conducting Body	NIT Delhi
Participating Institutes	49
Official Website	ccmt.nic.in

Eligibility Requirement for GATE CCMT 2021 Counselling?

After the declaration of GATE Result candidates will be able to participate in the counseling process. GATE Cut off will be different for all the colleges and courses. The eligibility criteria for the M.Tech/M.Arch/M.Plan/M.Des courses are as follows:

• The candidate must score a valid GATE Score on any of the three years (2019/2020/2021).
• As qualifying degree candidates must score a minimum of 6.5 CGPA or 60% (OC/OB categories) or 55% (SC/ST/PwD categories) from a recognized university.
• If the result is yet to be announced for the above instance then the candidate has to produce a valid proof of the document till the pre-final semester of that year at the reporting center during DVC.
• Percentage conversion to CGPA or vice versa is not allowed.
• The course eligibility depends on the combination of degree, streams and GATE exam. Special eligibility is required to become eligible for admission in some institutes.

GATE 2021 CCMT Counselling Process

Counselling Process consists of 5 stages-

Stage 1: Online Registration, Choice Filling, and Locking

• All eligible candidates should register themselves at the CCMT website by paying the requisite registration fee.
• The registration fee of INR 2500/- for OC/OB and INR 2000/- for SC/ST/PwD
• The registration fee is not reusable and would not be in sync with any other fee.
• Read thoroughly all the norms before clicking on the “I agree”checkbox.
• During the choice filling process, you can change, reorder, delete, and add choices of courses till the last date.

Instructions for CCMT New Candidate Registration

1. Keep changing the Password at frequent intervals.
2. Click the LOGOUT button and close all the windows related to the session, after finishing the work.
3. Never share your password. CCMT/NIC doesn’t request for such information by email.

Stage 2: Online Seat Allotment & Seat Acceptance fee deposit

• Based on the order of choices, candidates will be offered seats on merit basis.
• The seat allotment result will be available on the official website of CCMT.
• Candidates will not get individual seat allotment letters. They have to check the same by visiting the official website. 
•  Aspirants should take a printout of the allotment details (provisional seat allotment letter).
• This letter needs to be produced at the time of reporting.
• Seat Acceptance Fee of INR 30,000 has to be paid to confirm/book he allotted seat.
• Only after payment of seat acceptance fee, the candidate will be able to download the Provisional Seat Allotment Letter.

Stage 3: Online Upload of documents and Submit Willingness

• On allotment of a seat and payment of seat acceptance fee, the candidate will have to upload the required documents. Candidates have to upload the documents by visiting the official website. 
• Online verification will be done as per the schedule given on the website or mentioned above in the Regular Round Table.
• Candidates must note that the option of document upload will be enabled only after payment of seat acceptance fee.

Candidates are required to exercise one of the following willingness when they report to the RC:

• Floating: if they wish to be considered in the next round for all of their higher preferred choices.
• Sliding: if they wish to be considered in the next round for their higher preferred choices only within the Institute allotted to them.
• Freezing: if they are satisfied with the currently allotted seat and not interested in their higher preferred choices in the subsequent round.

Stage 4: Online Document Verification

• Document verification will be done by the verifying officer of the respective allotted institute only in the online mode.
• In case of a doubt regarding the documents, the Officer will raise a query to the candidate and the candidate can respond through her/his login.
• The interaction could occur multiple times and candidate will be compulsorily required to submit his clarifications/documents in response to the queries raised by the officer in the stipulated time period.
• If a candidate fails to do so then it will be treated as Not-Reported, and hence her/his seat will be cancelled and candidates will not be considered for seat allotment in subsequent rounds.
• After successful verification of documents, an ODVC will be generated i.e. online verification of documents.
• The ODVC will indicate the personal details of the candidate, details of the Institution and program allotted, details of seat acceptance fee, the willingness (Float or Slide or Freeze)  for other rounds of allotment, and status of document verification. 
• All the candidates who will get ODVC and have Float or Slide willingness should visit the CCMT website to check the status of their allotted seat in the subsequent rounds of allotment.

Stage 5: Online Admission in the Finally Allotted Institute

• After successful online document verification by the finally allotted institute, the candidates will have to pay the balance admission fee to the respective Institute in the online mode.
• The candidates who are planning to register for Special Rounds are not required to pay the balance fee to the allotted institute.

Rules for GATE CCMT Seat Allocation

Based on GATE Scores, the merit list for seat allocation will be prepared. There may be a case where 2 or more candidates score the same marks, in such case, the following will be considered:

1. Candidates having GATE score of 2020 will be given preference over those of 2021.
2. If the year of GATE score is the same, then preference will be given to that candidate who has obtained higher GATE marks out of 100.
3. In the unlikely event of their GATE marks out of 100 and the year of GATE score is the same, then preference will be based on the All India Rank (AIR).
4. In the highly unlikely event of candidates having the same year, marks out of 100, and AIR, then Date of Birth will be considered. Elder candidate will be given preference.
5. In the highly unlikely event of Date of Birth is same, then the rank will be decided on the basis of Random number generation.

Seat allotment is based on the Merit list and availability of seat as per filled Choices according to the Government of India (GoI) Reservation norms.

Documents Required for Counselling

Documents Required for GATE CCMT Counselling

When the seat is allotted to the candidate for the first time in any of the rounds, the candidate has to pay the Seat Acceptance Fee. Candidate has to produce the following documents during reporting at any of the RC:

1. Printout of the Registration form and the locked choices.
2.  Provisional Seat Allotment letter downloaded from the CCMT website
3. Self-attested copy of GATE scorecard (2019 or 2020 or 2021)
4. Photo ID proof as per Govt. of India norms
5. Original Birth certificate Class X (High School) Board Certificate as proof of date of birth
6. Original Mark sheet of Class XII
7. Original Grade/Mark sheets of the qualifying examination for all semesters
8. Original Degree certificate, if completed
9. Original Caste Certificate, if applicable.
10. Original Certificate for Persons with Disabilities (PwD), if applicable.
11. OBC-NCL/EWS certificate issued on or after April 1, 2019 will be accepted during online document verification. However, admission offered, if any, will be provisional, and subject to the submission of OBC-NCL/EWS certificate issued on or after April 1, 2021 at the time of physical reporting in the finally allotted Institute.
12. Proof of payment of Seat Acceptance fee.
13. Three color passport size photographs
14. Original Conduct Certificate from the Head of the institution last attended
15. Original Transfer certificate from the Head of the institution last attended

Note: If the original certificates are not in English/Hindi version then translation of such certificates, duly certified by the Principal/Director of the graduating Institute, will be required to produce during the verification of documents. The certificate mentioned at Sr. No. xiii if not available at the time of reporting at RC, and then it is to be produced the same at the time of admission to the allotted Institutes.

List of New Programs Added by CCMT

Some new programs have been released by GATE CCMT which will be available in the following Patricia[ting colleges. So if you are interested to take admission to these programs then you can apply for the same by visiting the official website. 

Name of Institute	Program Name
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal	Geoinformatics & Its Applications
Nanotechnology
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela	Biomedical Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Silchar	Microelectronics & VLSI Design
Communication & Signal Processing
Control & Industrial Automation
Power & Energy Systems Engineering
Instrumentation Engineering
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat	Computer Engineering
Instrumentation and Control
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram, Chennai	Electronics and Communication Engineering (Spl: Communication Systems Design)
Electronics and Communication Engineering (Spl: Electronics Systems Design)
Mechanical Engineering (Spl: Smart Manufacturing)
School of Planning & Architecture: Vijayawada	Building Engineering and Management
Environmental Planning & Management
Transportation and Infrastructure Planning
Urban & Regional Planning

GATE CCMT 2021 Important Dates (Tentative)

EVENTS	DATES (TENTATIVE)
Online Registration & Fee Payment and Online Choice Filling	May 2021
Online Choice Locking	June 2021
Automatic Locking of saved choices	June 2021
Publication of Round-1Seat Allotment	July 2021
Payment of Seat Acceptance Fee, Document uploading and specifying Willingness	July 2021
Online Document Verification by officers of Allotted Institute	July 2021
Online Change of Willingness / Withdrawal	July 2021

 Counselling Type of Fees

Candidates have to deposit various types of fees like registration fee and seat acceptance fee etc through SBI MOPS using Debit Card, Net Banking, UPI, or SBI Bank e-Challan. Candidates can check the types of fees applicable:

Fees Type	Description	Amount for GEN/GEN-EWS/OBC	Amount for SC/ST/PwD
Registration Fee	Non-refundable fee collected for participating in CCMT counseling process (Regular Rounds 1, 2, and 3)	INR 2500	INR 2000
Seat Acceptance Fee	Fee collected when the candidate accepts the seat allotted to him/her. This is a part of Institute fee, which will be later adjusted against the finally allotted Institute’s admission fee	INR 30000	INR 10000
SR Registration Fee	Non-refundable fee collected for registration in Special Rounds of CCMT	INR 2500	INR 2000
SR Participation Fee	Fee collected during the registration of Special round to be adjusted against the Institute fee upon reporting at the allotted institute. (If a candidate has already paid SAF in regular rounds then that fee will be adjusted in SR participation fee)	INR 40000	INR 10000

GATE CCMT Previous Year Cut Off

GATE CCMT Cut Off

GATE Cut off is the minimum marks required to qualify the exam and based on your cut off you will be able to apply for the admission process. The opening and closing ranks of the previous year for NITs are provided below in the table. These ranks are for Round 1 of counselling. The Max and Min values indicate GATE Score.

Institution Name	Program Name	Open Seat	Open Pwd	OBC-NCL Seat
Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min
Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar	Chemical Engineering	436	380	0	0	337	315
Computer Science & Engineering	692	582	0	0	553	459
Electronics and Communication Engineering	608	554	0	0	526	496
Mechanical Engineering	708	643	490	490	638	581
Textile Engineering and Management	689	442	0	0	386	305
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur	Chemical Engineering	513	448	0	0	396	392
Computer Engineering	706	666	337	337	618	578
Electronics and Communication Engineering	661	629	0	0	621	582
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering	464	355	0	0	341	355
Production Engineering	708	701	0	0	669	666
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal	Biotechnology	670	493	0	0	422	374
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad	Biomedical Engineering	637	618	0	0	556	546
Chemical Engineering	577	444	238	238	435	396
Computer Science & Engineering	796	729	0	0	640	627
National Institute of Technology Agartala	Chemical Engineering	384	379	0	0	307	307
Computer Science & Engineering	582	545	0	0	467	434
Instrumentation Engineering	597	551	0	0	549	501
National Institute of Technology Calicut	Chemical Engineering	482	427	199	199	388	371
Computer Science & Engineering	764	742	381	381	713	660
National Institute of Technology Delhi	Electronics and Communication Engineering	668	637	0	0	610	580
National Institute of Technology Durgapur	Chemical Engineering	470	401	0	0	328	315
Computer Science & Engineering	654	611	0	0	570	549

GATE CCMT Participating Colleges

Below is the list of participating institutes under GATE CCMT counselling.

Institute Code and Name	Institute Code
Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar	201
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur	202
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal	203
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad	204
National Institute of Technology Agartala	205
National Institute of Technology Calicut	206
National Institute of Technology Delhi	207
National Institute of Technology Durgapur	208
National Institute of Technology Goa	209
National Institute of Technology Hamirpur	210
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal	211
National Institute of Technology Meghalaya	212
National Institute of Technology Nagaland	213
National Institute of Technology Patna	214
National Institute of Technology Puducherry	215
National Institute of Technology Raipur	216
National Institute of Technology Sikkim	217
National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh	218
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur	219
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra	220
National Institute of Technology, Manipur	221
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela	222
National Institute of Technology, Silchar	223
National Institute of Technology, Srinagar	224
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli	225
National Institute of Technology, Warangal	226
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat	227
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur	228
National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand	229
National Institute of Technology Mizoram	230
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management Gwalior	301
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad	302
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram, Chennai	303
Pt. Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacture Jabalpur	304
Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara	308
International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar	309
Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow	310
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune	311
National Institute of Foundry & Forge Technology, Hatia, Ranchi	402
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology	403
School of Planning & Architecture: Vijayawada	404
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur	405
Central University of Rajasthan City: N.H.-8, Bandarsindri, Kishangarh	406
PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh	407
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University	416
University of Hyderabad	417
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kurnool	–
National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Aurangabad	–
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal	–

The authorities could increase or decrease the number of participating colleges. Also, the course offered by these colleges could also be changed every year. Candidates can also check the fee structure of the courses offered by these colleges.

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