The deadline for Puducherry NEET UG 2026 stray-round registration and payment of the registration fee has been extended to . The earlier deadline is not stated in the supplied extension notice.
The update concerns the stray-round registration stage administered by the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC), Government of Puducherry. Candidates who need to register for the round, or complete the associated registration-fee payment, should treat 3:00 PM on 22 October 2026 as the operative deadline.
What changed
- Extended activity: stray-round registration and registration-fee payment.
- Revised deadline: .
- What this notice does not establish: a seat allotment result, an allotted college, a reporting schedule, or a separate choice-filling deadline.
Who should act
This update is relevant to candidates taking part in CENTAC's Puducherry NEET UG 2026 stray-round process who have not yet completed the applicable registration and registration-fee payment steps. Registration is a counselling-process step; it is not an allotment or admission confirmation.
Required action before the deadline
- Open the CENTAC extension notice and verify that it applies to your intended stray-round participation.
- Use the official CENTAC candidate portal for the applicable registration process.
- Complete the registration-fee payment early enough to resolve any payment or portal issue before .
- Save the application acknowledgement, payment receipt, and transaction reference after the portal shows successful completion.
- Watch CENTAC's subsequent official notices for eligibility lists, vacancies, allotment, and reporting instructions, which are separate stages from this extension.
Important caution
The supplied notice is an extension notice. It should not be read as confirmation of a seat, a reopening of every counselling activity, or a change to any deadline that CENTAC has not specifically extended. A contemporaneous report describing the notice likewise identifies the extension as applying to stray-round registration and registration-fee payment through 5:00 PM on 21 October 2026; candidates should rely on the official CENTAC notice and portal for the controlling instructions.