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You can participate in counseling round 1 and 2 depending on your choice. If you have secured admission in a branch and campus of your choice in round 1 you can secure the admission and you do not have to participate in round 2 counselling. But if you wish to change the branch or campus then you may participate in round 2 counselling. The candidates will be called for counselling based in the Common Merit Rank in order of the rank but the seat allotment for reserved category candidates (SC/ST/OBC-NCL/EWS/PWD) will be done on basis of category rank.

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