Hello aspirant,

I would like to tell you that your SC Caste Certificate will only be valid if and only if it is issued on or after 1st April, 2022. If it's not, then your certificate willl not be valid, and I am sorry to say that you cannot use that caste certificate in your JEE mains examination.

Further, if you not have the valid SC caste certificate. then you need not to worry about that because you can now apply for self declaration form. And under there you can mention your category as SC (Schedule Caste) and that will be a valid proof for your caste certificate in JEE mains which you can use to fill your JEE registration form. Then after 14 days, you can submit the newly issued copy of your certificate issued by the authorities.

I hope that this will help.