hello aspirant,

In order to be eligible for EWS reservation you must have a valid and fresh EWS certificate issued on or after 1st April 2022. Therefore, your EWS certificate will not be accepted at the time of counselling if you have applied your old (2020) certificate for HCS examination. Further, if you failed to provide the proof of a fresh and valid EWS certificate at the time of counselling, then you will be considered as the GENERAL category student and will be allotted colleges based on the General Category Cutoff.

Further, what you can do is that you can give a Self-declaration form at the time of registration for HCS. The self-declaration form is the valid proof that, since you do not have a valid EWS certificate at time of registration,  you will give a fresh certificate after some days when you'll get a new certificate from the tehsildar. By doing this you'll be allowed to register for HCS examination. generally EWS certificate takes 15 days for the approval. So, when you'll be issued a new certificate then you can submit it during the counselling procedure.

I hope that this will help.