Hello Aspirant,

See in HBTU Kanpur counselling your CRL rank will be considered not your category rank. But yes note that there will be category relaxation as provided in all educational institutions means the cut-offs for reservation categories will be lower as compare to that of General category.

For more details kindly refer to the links given below :-

https://www.careers360.com/university/harcourt-butler-technical-university-kanpur

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!