MKM UMRED

(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
a. “Admission Reporting Centre” means a center where the candidate shall report for
confirmation of admission by submission of documents and payment of fees.

b. “All India Seats' means seats available for any eligible Indian National
c. “Application Form” means prescribed form filled up by the candidate online for
admission

d. “Autonomous Institute” means the institute to which autonomy is granted by the
University Grants Commission.

e. “Centralized allotment process Seats” means the seats for which allotment and
admission is carried out by the competent Authority through Centralized allotment
process .

f. “Courses” means the undergraduate Bachelor of fine Art Courses (Visual Art) in Painting
or Applied Art or Sculpture or Textile Design or Interior Decoration or Ceramics or Metal
Work ".

g. 'Facilitation Centre' means a center where the facilities like sale of application kits,
filling online forms, verification of documents and grievances etc. are provided

h. 'Foreign National' means Citizens of all countries other than India, who are not of Indian
origin as defined under person of Indian origin.

i. 'Home University' means' the university area in the jurisdiction of which the candidate
has passed the qualifying examination.

j. 'HSC' means the Higher Secondary School Certificate (Std.XII) Examination of
Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education or its
equivalent awarded by a Recognized Board.

k. 'Institutional Quota' means seats available for admission at institute level

l. 'Inter-Se Merit' means on the basis of merit.

m. ‘Minority Seats’ means seats earmarked for the minority community students from
within the state belonging to the minority community to which the institution belongs.

n. 'Non Autonomous Institute' means those institutes which are not 'Autonomous
Institutes'.

o. 'Non Resident Indian Candidate' means a candidate who is a child or ward of the person
who has the ''Non Resident Indian status' as defined under section 6 of the Income Tax
Act.

p. 'OCI' means a candidate having Overseas Citizenship of India

q. 'Qualifying examination' means examination on the basis of which a candidate becomes
eligible for admission or its equivalent examination as notified by the Government.

r. 'Sanctioned Intake (SI)' means the course wise number of seats sanctioned by the
Government.

s. 'SSC' means the Secondary School Certificate (Std. X) examination of Maharashtra State.
Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education or its equivalent awarded by a
Recognized Board.

t. 'Supernumerary Seats' means seats which are over and above the sanctioned intake
approved by the appropriate authority and the Government.

u. "Persons of Indian Origin (PIO)": A Person having foreign citizenship (except Pakistan
and Bangladesh) without "NRI" status, who holds a Foreign Passport at the time of
sending application, consideration for admission and during the period of his or her
study, and he or she or anyone or both of his or her parents or anyone or both of his or
her grandparents is (or was) or are (or was) citizen(s) of India by virtue of the
provisions of the Constitution of India or Sec. 2(b) of Citizenship Act, 1955 (Act No. 57 of
1955)

v. Person of Indian origin Candidate means a candidate who is a child or ward of Person of
Indian origin

Type	Eligibility Criterion	Home University
A.	a. Candidate Passing Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary Certificate Examination from a recognized institution in Maharashtra state . AND b. Candidate who is Domiciled of Maharashtra/ Born in Maharashtra	Place of passing of Qualifying Examination falling within the jurisdiction of the respective University area
B.	A Candidate does not satisfy as Type A AND Father/Mother or Mother of the candidate is domiciled in the state of Maharashtra.	Place of Domicile Certificate issuing authority falling within the jurisdiction of the respective University area.
C	A Candidate does not satisfy as Type A or B AND Father/Mother of the candidate is an employee of the Government of India or Government of India Undertaking who is posted and reported to duty in Maharashtra State before the last date for submitting the Application Form for Centralized Admission.	Place of Posting of Father or Mother of candidate falling within the jurisdiction of the respective University area
D.	A Candidate does not satisfy as Type A or B or C AND Father or Mother of the candidate is an employee of the Government of Maharashtra or Government of Maharashtra Undertaking	Place of Posting of Father or Mother of candidate or If deputed outside Maharashtra the place of last posting falling within the jurisdiction of the respective University area.
E	Candidate passing SSC or HSC Examination from a Recognized institution from a Disputed Maharashtra Karnataka Border Area and Mother tongue should be Marathi.	Candidate shall be considered for the Outside Home University or State Level Seats.

Seats for this candidature are available in First year Bachelor of Fine Arts courses.
a. The children of citizens, who are displaced from Jammu and Kashmir to any part of India from
unsafe border area of Jammu and Kashmir Migrant to a relatively safer place in Jammu and
Kashmir Migrant from 1990 onwards due to terrorist activities.

b. The children of officers belonging to Indian Administrative service or Indian Police Service or
Indian Foreign service and children of staff belonging military and paramilitary forces
transferred to Jammu and Kashmir to combat terrorist activities and joined the post on or before
the last date for submission of application for admission

c. The children of staff and officers of Jammu and Kashmir police engaged in combating
terrorism

The candidates having candidature as given in 3.3 shall be eligible for these seats. These seats shall be filled in accordance with the provision under Section 6 of the act. The minority educational institution shall surrender the unfilled seats of this quota, if any, to the competent authority to be filled during Centralized Admission Process Round I.

Provided that, the minority quota seats that are not surrendered by the minority educational institute for Centralized Admission Process and are not filled or the seats remaining vacant due to cancellation or non-reporting or where the candidate leave the institution after selection shall be filled in from minority candidates belonging to the minority community to which the institution belongs on the basis of inter-se merit Provided that if any minority educational institution fails to fill the un-surrendered minority quota seats from their respective minority community candidates then same shall be surrendered to the competent authority till the commencement of last Centralized Admission Process Round so as to fill these seats from amongst the respective minority community candidates through Centralized Admission Process. Moreover if these seats earmarked for minority quota are unfilled due to non availability of candidates from respective minority community then it shall be filled in by general category candidates in the last Centralized Admission Process Round.

Provided further that, the seats that are surrendered for the Centralized Admission Process under section 6 (b) of the act and are remained vacant after completion of Centralized Admission Process due to non-allotment of seat or cancellation or nonreporting or where the candidate leave the institution after selection through Centralized Admission Process may be filled from the general category candidates on the basis of inter-se merit

While deciding the eligibility of the candidates following procedure shall be adopted.
a. The percentage of marks shall be calculated by rounding off to two places after decimal.
b. If letter grades are assigned at SSC, HSC or its equivalent examination the candidate must submit the certificate of conversion of letter grades into equivalent marks from the concerned competent authority or board at the time of submission of application form. The Eligibility shall be decided based on the basis of equivalent marks.
c. If the candidate reappears for the qualifying examination with all subjects then the marks obtained in the latest examination shall only be considered

The merit list shall be prepared on the basis of marks or score secured by the candidate in the Common Entrance Test conducted by the Competent Authority or marks or score secured in any other examination conducted by the concerned appropriate authority and as declared by the Government under section 4(a) of the act for the purpose of admission to these courses. Each eligible candidate who has submitted application form on or before the last date prescribed for the submission of Application form for admission through Centralized Admission Process will be assigned a Merit Number based on the following criteria. Common Entrance Test examination will be as per the following mentioned pattern. There will be THREE practical Subjects each of 50 marks and one General Knowledge (objective type) paper of 40 Marks. Assignment of merit number will be out of 200 marks, out of which 150 marks for practical examination, 40 marks for General Knowledge (Objective type) examination. And 10 marks are as credit marks to the candidates who have passed Maharashtra State Intermediate Drawing Grade Examination.

The Credit marks awarded for passing Intermediate Drawing Grade Examination are as
mentioned below:
“A” Grade : 10 Marks
“B” Grade : 06 Marks
“C” Grade : 04 Marks
Those candidates who have not passed the Intermediate Drawing Grade Examination will also be eligible for appearing for the Common Entrance Test- examination, but such candidates will not be given any credit marks as reserved for those who have passed the Intermediate Drawing Grade Examination. Assignment of a Merit number does not indicate or ensure admission to any seat. All eligible Maharashtra State Candidates, All Indian candidates should note that, a separate merit list of all eligible candidates shall be prepared based on the – Common Entrance Test score (out of 200 marks) only, relative merit in case of a tie (i.e. equal marks Common Entrance Test shall be resolved as per rule.)

In the case of candidates securing equal number of marks Common Entrance Test, their relative merit will be fixed on the basis of the following in the order of preference given below:
a. A candidate securing higher Marks in the paper Object drawing at Common Entrance Test
Examination.
b. A candidate securing higher marks in the paper Design Common Entrance Test
Examination.
c. A candidate securing higher marks in the paper Memory Drawing at Common Entrance
Test Examination.
d. Birth Date of Candidate (Elder Candidate will be given preference.)

b. A candidate securing higher marks in the paper Design Common Entrance Test
Examination.

c. A candidate securing higher marks in the paper Memory Drawing at Common Entrance
Test Examination.

d. Birth Date of Candidate (Elder Candidate will be given preference.)

e. A candidate securing higher grade in Intermediate Drawing Grade Examination.

f. A candidate with higher aggregate percentage in Secondary School Certificate (10th Level)
Examination or an equivalent Examination.

The Unaided Private Professional Education Institutes shall admit students through the
Centralized Admission Process as referred in subsection 3 of section 3 of the act. The stages of
Centralized Admission Process shall be as stated below.
a. Display or Publishing of Information Brochure by the competent authority

b. Filling Online Application Form by candidate for participation in the Centralized Admission
Process

c. Confirmation of Online Application Form and Document Verification at Facilitation Centre by
the candidate in person

d. Display or Publishing of Provisional merit lists, Submission of grievances if any and Display
or Publishing of Final Merit Lists

e. Display of available category wise Seats (Seat Matrix) for centralized Admission Process
Rounds I or II or III

f. Filling up and Confirmation of Online Option Form having preferences of courses or
Institutions before Centralized Admission Process Round I. Candidates may fill-in as many
choices as possible of Institutes and courses in decreasing order of their preference. The
option form once confirmed shall be considered for allotment in Centralized Admission
Process Round VII or III.

g. Display of Provisional Allotment of Centralized Admission Process Round I or II or III
indicating allotted institute and course
h. Reporting and accepting the offered seat as per allotment of the Centralized Admission
Process Rounds I or II or III by the candidate at Reporting Centre

During the Centralized Admission Process, before accepting the allotted seat a candidate can opt to 'freeze', 'slide' or 'float' the choice of academic program for subsequent round(s), if any, of seat allocation

(i) Freezing: Candidates accept the offered seat and they do not want to participate in any further rounds of seat allocation. Such candidates will NOT be considered in subsequent rounds of admission

(ii) Sliding: Candidates accept the offered seat and indicate that, if admission to an academic program of better / higher preference is offered within the same Institute, they will accept it. Such candidates will be considered in subsequent rounds of admission

(iii) Floating: Candidates accept the offered seat and indicate that, if admission to an academic program of better/higher preference in any Institute is offered, they will accept it. Else, they will continue with the currently accepted academic program. Such candidates will be considered in subsequent rounds of admission (iv) For candidates who choose the float or slide option, and secures a seat of his choice of higher preference would automatically result in the forfeiture of the seat accepted by the
candidate in the earlier round

(v) Sliding and floating options will not be available to those candidates who is offered
admission to his first choice
i. Conduct of Centralized Admission Process Round-IV- The seats available for this round shall be published on the website. The candidates are allowed to fill in or edit the already filled online option form. The seats to be allotted during the course of this round shall be subject to following conditions-

(i) Before start of this round, the candidates can change their option from sliding or floating to freezing or vice-versa

(ii) Candidates who have not been allotted any seat in any of the previous rounds or those who have taken and cancelled their admission in the earlier rounds and those who are desirous of floating and sliding in this final round are eligible to participate in this round

(iii) Candidates who have opted for floating and sliding and also applying for this round shall fill in the allotted institute in their choice list. Once the upward allotment is made the earlier allotment automatically stands cancelled.

(iv) Sliding and floating options are NOT available for the seats allotted in this round.

J. Reporting and Accepting the offered seat as per allotment of the Centralized Admission Process Round IV, by the candidate at Reporting Canter.

k. Reporting and confirming the admission of the candidate to the institute as per final allotment through Centralized Admission Process Round.

l. Institute level round for the seats remaining vacant after all the Centralized Admission
Process rounds are completed.

a) All the candidates (OPEN/Reserved/Male/Female) belonging to various categories shall be (Considered for allotment as per their inter se merit.)

b) The Minority seats shall be allotted to the candidates of the state belonging to the minority community to which the institute belongs.

c) Backward class category candidates shall be considered for allotment in OPEN category seat by virtue of their merit or in their respective category of reservation, if OPEN category seats are not available at their merit.

d) Special backward category candidates shall be considered for allotment in OPEN category by virtue of their merit and in case of Special backward category candidates who were in backward class prior to their inclusion in Special backward category shall
be considered in their original backward class category.

e) Persons with Disability category candidates shall be considered for allotment for the seats reserved for them (P-I, P-2 and P-3) otherwise in OPEN category as per their interse merit if the seats reserved for them are not available at their merit.

f ) Defence category candidates shall be considered for allotment for the seats reserved for them by virtue of their merit or in OPEN category as per their inter-se merit if the seats reserved for - them are not available at their merit.

g) For the female candidates, the availability of seat shall be considered for allotment in
the following order:
i. Seats reserved for female in Open category

ii. Seat for General Open category

iii. Seats reserved for female in respective caste category

iv. General seats in their caste category

h) For seats reserved for female candidates, the procedure for horizontal reservation as
given in Government Circular of General Administration Department No. RSV 1012/CN16/12/16A Dated 13th August 2014 shall be adopted.

The seats remaining vacant in the respective group of following categories shall be considered for allotment to the candidates of within the respective group –
Group 1:

i) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Castes converted to Buddhism (SC)

ii) Scheduled Tribes including those living outside the specified areas (ST)

Group 2:

i) Vimukta Jatis/De- Notified Tribes (VJ /DT) NT(A)

ii) Nomadic Tribes I (NT-B)
Group 3:

i) Nomadic Tribes 2 (NT-C)

ii) Nomadic Tribes 3 (NT-D)

iii) Other Backward Class (OBC)
(Explanation- for Group 1, the seats remaining vacant in Scheduled Tribes category due to non-availability of its Candidates, those seats shall be considered for allotment to the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes Category or vice versa)

a. Centralized Admission Process Round I, II, III and IV shall be conducted by computerised allotment,

b. In Centralized Admission Process, Round I, II, and III the Stages I to Stage III stated above at 7.1 shall be executed.

c. The seats remaining vacant due to non-allotment and non-reporting will be available for allotment in subsequent round.

d. For the Centralized Admission Process Round-IV, the Stage-I to Stage-VIII stated above shall be executed.

e. The seats remaining, vacant due to non-allotment and non-reporting will be available for Admission through counselling in Institute level Round based on the inter-se merit of Bachelor of Fine Art Common Entrance Test.

a. Allotment in Centralized Admission Process Round-I, II , III,IV of Home University Seats or Other than Home University seats or State Level seats will be carried out as per inter se merit of candidates having Maharashtra State Candidature. Seats will be allotted to candidates as per inter se merit, options filled and seats available at that point of time in the stage of
Centralized Admission Process Round-I, II, III and IV

b. All candidates eligible for a particular stage of allotment will be considered for allotment of a seat in that stage, even if they have been allotted or not allotted a seat in the previous stage.

c. During the allotment of any stage, the candidate may get upward shift in the allotment with reference to the options filled by the candidate according to availability of seats at that point of time.

d. All reserved category candidates (including SBC in their original category) shall be considered for allotment in all stages.

e. Due to upward shifts, the seats falling vacant shall be considered for allotment in further interactions of the same stage as per the provisions of that stage of allotment.

f. Allotment against the first available option in the order of preference filled in shall be retained as final allotment.

g. During Centralized Admission Process Round I, II and III, stage I and II will be repeated after stage III for betterment to all the candidates due to allotment to Special Backward Class candidates in stage - III.

h. The allotment list displayed on website will show the provisional allotment offered to the candidates. No personal communication or Allotment letters in this regard shall be issued to the candidates.
i. A candidate who has been allotted a seat shall download the "Provisional Seat Allotment Letter". At the time of seat acceptance; candidate has to pay a demand draft in favor of Competent Authority.

j. Candidates shall pay demand draft for seat acceptance fee and report at an Admission Reporting Centre for document verification before the last date or time. Seat will be confirmed by the Reporting Centre after verification of the original documents and ensuring that the candidate meets all the eligibility norms. The center in-charge shall issue the Online Receipt of acceptance.

k. The Seat Acceptance Fee shall be Rs.3,000/- for candidates of General Category, Vimukt Jati or De-notified Tribes, Nomadic Tribes, Special Backward Class or Other Backward Class category and Rs. 1000/- for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes category candidates. This fee shall be transferred to the institute if the candidate reports to the institute after completion of Centralized Admission Process and shall be adjusted towards fees to be paid by the candidate to the institute. On Cancellation of admission before reporting to the institute, the amount shall be refunded after Deduction of Rs.1000/- towards processing
charges.

b. All candidates eligible for a particular stage of allotment will be considered for allotment of a seat in that stage, even if they have been allotted or not allotted a seat in the previous stage.

d. All reserved category candidates (including SBC in their original category) shall be considered for allotment in all stages.

e. Due to upward shifts, the seats falling vacant shall be considered for allotment in further interactions of the same stage as per the provisions of that stage of allotment.

f. Allotment against the first available option in the order of preference filled in shall be retained as final allotment.

l. Failure to report in person for seat acceptance will be considered as if the candidate has
rejected the offer. Seat will be cancelled if, at any time, any of the documents or certificates is or are found to be invalid or fraudulent or the candidate does not meet the eligibility norms. Option to reject (or not to accept) the allocated seat: Candidates who want to reject the allocated seat can do so as follows:
(i) By NOT remitting the seat acceptance fee (and hence, not report at the reporting center)

(ii) There is no option to withdraw from seat allocation or to surrender an allocated seat other than by rejecting the seat as mentioned above. Candidates who reject allocated seat cannot participate in Centralized Admission Process Round II and / or III