Hello,

As both the rank mentioned by you are decent one and as you are looking for NIT hence, i would like to say you that getting NIT even on the basis of your OBC NCL category rank is not at all possible because NIT’s are top level of colleges hence the cutoffs are too high and the competition among students for getting NIT is also huge but definitely there are many more options of colleges you can go for and you can also use below given link to check the colleges you can get on the basis of your rank, so the link is:

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Thank you..

Hello

Your profile suggests that your home state is West Bengal

With  79744 obc rank,

You have extremely low chance in any NITs for mechanical or any branch

For example,

When we go through previous year trend then ,

Under other state quota , closing rank for some of the nits for which closing rank goes low are listed below along with their closing rank in the 6th round of josaa counselling 2020   :-

• Nit nagaland ,Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology) :-  15340 obc rank

• National Institute of Technology AgartalaProduction Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology :- 15659  obc rank

• National Institute of Technology, Surat:-Chemistry (5 Years, Integrated Master of Science):-16453 obc rank

You can verify the above at

https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx

So, to get a seat in NIT you should get at least around 15000 - 16000 OBC rank

But yes,

Some of the   government   engineering colleges in which you hold a chance on the basis of past year closing rank are listed below along with the link for their previous year cutoff :-

-------) UJJAIN ENGINEERING COLLEGE:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/ujjain-engineering-college-ujjain/cut-off

-------) Dr APJ Abdul Kalam UIT Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Jhabua :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/dr-apj-abdul-kalam-uit-rajiv-gandhi-proudyogiki-vishwavidyalaya-jhabua/cut-off

-------) Indira Gandhi Engineering College, Sagar :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/indira-gandhi-engineering-college-sagar/cut-off

-------) University Institute of Technology Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Shahdol:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/university-institute-of-technology-rajiv-gandhi-proudyogiki-vishwavidyalaya-shahdol/cut-off

This prediction of colleges is  based of past year data but  cut off or closing rank changes every year depending upon many factors like the number of students that give the examination, difficulty level of the JEE main  for different shifts etc so

To have a personalised report on your chances of getting a college you can go through our college predictor, it will give you complete list of colleges which you can get on the basis of the category you belong to,  your home state, your gender etc, the link for  jee main college predictor is provided below

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

To help you  further,

Minimum percentile in jee main 2021 to qualify it to  be eligible for jee advanced 2021 is given below :-

--------) general :-87.8992241 percentile

--------) EWS:- 66.2214845 percentile

--------) OBC-NCL :- 68.0234447 percentile

--------) SC :- 46.8825338 percentile

--------) ST:- 34.6728999 percentile

--------) PWD :- 0.0096375 percentile

Thank you