Engineering

General students need 45-50k rank, OBC candidates need 60-65k and ST/SC students need 1-1.3 lac.

Yes, hostel facility is available for lateral entry students also along with regular students.

Hello Rahul, It's very nice to hear from you that you are interested in doing one year Diploma courses for which qualification is either 12th or graduation. I must congratulate you for thinking on these lines. One must keep on enhancing one's qualification every year. I will advise you that please download brochure cum application form of IGNOU. This university offers a very wide variety of courses. Select the one that you like. Best wishes.

It differs with different universities, if you are applying in a Tier I University they select only students who have no backlogs and with good extra activities. So, when you specify a University it would be easy to say the eligibility criteria.

Hello Sneha, The qualifying cut off marks in JEE exam is found in the link below:
https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/amp/jee-main-exam-cutoff
This is the mark required to clear the exam while the admission cut off is different and usually higher than these scores.

Hello Jagmohan, The minimum percentage in board exams is 75 percent (for general or unreserved category) and 65 percent (for reserved categories like SC, ST, etc.). Hence only if you have this score in board exams, you can get admission through JoSAA counseling even though you have a great scores in JEE exams.