what is the OBC NCL and other categories resavations in jee

Hello Aspirant,

As JEE-Main is a national level engineering entrance exam so the reservation criteria is also implied as per the norms decided by Government of India and other competent authorities. Which goes like this :-

• General Economically Weaker Sections (GEN-EWS) - 10%
• Scheduled Castes (SC) - 15%
• Scheduled Tribes (ST) - 7.5%
• Non-Creamy Layer of Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) - 27%
• Persons with Disabilities - 5% in each category (Horizontal reservation)

PwD category candidates get Horizontal reservation of 5% across all categories and horizontal reservation means the PwD candidate will get 5% reservation in each category for e.g. you belongs to OBC NCL category and also you owns PwD certificate then you will be eligible for OBC-PwD category means in 27% quota of OBC candidates you will get 5% reservation advantage and similarly with other categories as well.

So other than OBC NCL there are 4 reserved categories and that are SC, ST, EWS and PwD.

For complete details kindly check out the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-reservation-criteria

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!