“The move aims to complete the majority of admissions through the centralised process thereby ensuring greater transparency,” Patil said.State higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil announced Thursday, that the government would now conduct four centralised admission process (CAP) rounds for admission instead of three for the 2025-26 academic year.The changes mirror the revised admission process announced for Engineering Diploma admissions a few days ago. While adding that the changes mirror the revised admission, Patil said, “The move aims to complete the majority of admissions through the centralised process thereby ensuring greater transparency.”While a separate Government Resolution (GR) will be issued in this regard with details of the revised process according to the information shared by the minister, apart from one additional CAP round, another key change will be extending mandatory admission confirmation rule to the first three rounds and there would also be stricter rules of confirmation of admission on allotted seats in the first three rounds.As per this extension, the condition to mandatorily confirm admission on allotted seat will not be limited to first-preferred college. While it was always mandatory for candidates to confirm admission if allotted a seat in first preferred college, as per the revised rule this condition is now extended up to three and six colleges for second and third round, respectively. Which means, in the first CAP round, the candidate has to confirm admission on the allotted seat if it is his/her first preferred college. But in CAP round 2, it will be mandatory for candidates to confirm admission if the allotted seat is in the first three colleges from his/her preference list. Whereas in CAP round 3 the same condition is extended up to six colleges which means a candidate has to mandatorily confirm admission if allotted seat in first six colleges from his/her preference list.An official from the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), said, “Traditionally, candidates were allowed to choose ‘float’ option which allowed the applicant to keep the allotted seat on hold as he/she seeks a betterment chance in the next round. With this process candidates would wait until the last round to confirm admission with hopes that they will get allotment of a seat in a better preferred college. With extension of mandatory confirmation rule, maximum applicants will be admitted by three rounds.”Patil added, “Additional CAP rounds will ensure that candidates have more chance of securing admission through CAP before heading to institution level admissions which start after CAP. Furthermore, expansion of the mandatory seat confirmation rule will ensure that candidates do not keep waiting until the last round without admissions.”Engineering admissions in Maharashtra will start after the result of MHT-CET is declared which is expected to be out on June 16.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:Mumbai