Uttar Pradesh- The Uttar Pradesh Director General, Medical Education & Training (UPDGME) has released the National Eligibility and Entrance Test-Master of Dental Surgery (NEET MDS) first round of Online Counselling schedule for the academic year 2025.As per the schedule, the NEET MDS 2025 1st round of Online Counselling will begin from 01st July 2025 and will end on 14th July 2025. In which, the online registration and deposition of the registration fee and security Fee process will be done from 01st to 04th July 2025. Following this, the merit list will be declared on 04th July 2025 and the seat allotment result will be declared on 08th July 2025.Also Read: UP PG medical admissions 2025- All You Need to Know About NEET PG Counselling ProcessMeanwhile, the online choice filling process will be done from 04th to 07th July 2025. After this, the candidates can download the allotment letters and start the admission process from 09th July 2025. Below is the detailed schedule-SCHEDULES.NODESCRIPTIONDATE & TIMETOTAL DAYS1Date of online registration 01st July 2025 (From 11:00 AM) to 04th July 2025 (Till 11:00 AÐœ) 03 days2Date of depositing registration fee and security Fee 01st July 2025 (From 11:00 AM) to 04th July 2025 (Till 2:00 PM) 04 days3Date of declaration of merit list 04th July 2025 01 days4Date of online choice filling 04th July 2025 (From 5:00 PM) to 07th July 2025 (Till 5:00 PM ) 03 days5Date of declaration of the result of seat allotment 08th July 2025 01 days6The date for downloading allotment letters and the admission process.09th July 2025 to 12th July 2025 & 14th July 2025 05 daysTo view the schedule, click the link belowhttps://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/schedule-292389.pdfAlong with this, UPDGME has also released a notification detailing the important information and instructions for the candidates participating in the first round of online counselling of UP NEET-MDS 2025.According to the notification, only the candidates declared successful in the NEET MDS-2025 entrance examination are eligible to participate in the counselling of UP NEET MDS 2025. All the eligible candidates participating in the counselling of NEET MDS-2025 will have to register by logging on to the departmental official website.The candidate must deposit the registration fee of Rs. 3,000/- through online mode. However, the registration fee will not be refunded under any circumstances, i.e. the registration fee is non-refundable. In addition, the candidates must also deposit the Rs. 30,000 security amount for the government sector and Rs 1,00,000 for the private sector through online mode. Otherwise, the candidates will not be eligible for choice filling. Meanwhile, on depositing security money of Rs. 1,00,000 for participating in counselling, the candidates will be eligible for seats in dental colleges in both government and private sectors.The candidate should fill out the online choice based on his/her preference for allotment of seats in government/private sector dental colleges. The candidate should fill in the choice of only those colleges in which he/she is interested in taking admission. There is no limit for online choice filling. It is mandatory to lock the choices after online choice filling. Otherwise, the candidate will automatically be out of the seat allocation process. The entire responsibility for this will be on the candidate himself.Moreover, candidates allotted to private sector dental colleges must deposit the tuition fee determined by the government/minority institution through a CTS bank draft issued in favour of the UPDGME at the concerned nodal centre. The tuition fee determined by the government and the fee structure of minority institutions are available on the departmental website.The private sector dental colleges are free to charge less than the tuition fee prescribed by the Government, but in respect of charging less than the prescribed tuition fee, it will be mandatory for the representative of the dental college to submit an undertaking to the said effect in respect of the concerned candidate to the concerned nodal officer.The admission process of candidates allotted to government sector seats will be completed at the level of the concerned university. The admission process of candidates allotted seats in private sector dental colleges will be conducted at the designated nodal centres. The list of nodal centres is displayed in the brochure issued for counselling of NEET MDS 2025, which is available on the departmental website.Apart from this, the Other Backwards Classes and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates of Uttar Pradesh are informed that while completing the admission process, it is mandatory for them to have an Other Backwards Classes and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) certificate dated 01 April 2025 or after.All certificates related to reservation, i.e. OBC, Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Economically Weaker Section, will be valid only if issued by the competent…