JEE Counseling 2022

I have completed 2 years in NIT Uttarakhand. So, I can give you a brief idea about life of an average student at National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand. You will get a tag of NITian and you can participate in inter NIT competitions (both Sports and Technical). The faculty is good but most of them are Assistant Professors. Currently, they don't have any Associate Professors or Professor, some recruitment have been made this year maybe some Associate Professors might join the Mechanical Department. Being a newly established NIT not much has been done yet in the field of Research and Development but students are doing quite well. "Kalam Lab" body specifically working on the development of innovative ideas into a reality. Govind Vajpayee student of NIT UK has recently won the Inter NIT innovation challenge. Placements are not as good as it should be. Considering lack of resources and remote location of college. We are doing quite well in Placements and graph is increasing every year. Major Core and IT companies visit us every year. If you are looking for a huge campus then my friend NIT UK is not for you because their temporary campus is in government. Poly. Srinagar and it ends before it starts. Still, they don't have the permanent land allotment.

At rank 40000, you will get some good colleges but you will have to compromise with the branches as you will get lower branches, but if you don't want to compromise and want to get upper branches or core branches then you will have to go for some lower colleges
The admission cutoffs are usually released by JoSAA on behalf of the colleges that are participating in the counseling process. According to the JoSAA given below are opening and closing ranks of some NITs ( open category only)
NIT Agartala
4,080- Opening rank
25,737- Closing rank
NIT Calicut
470- Opening rank
17,731- Closing rank
NIT Delhi
707- Opening rank
13,423- Closing rank
NIT Durgapur
7,376- Opening rank
21,206- Closing rank
NIT Goa
2,574- Opening rank
18,383 - Closing rank

If your category rank (OBC Rank) is 3032, then the IITs available to you are:-
1] IIT Dhanbad - Geophysics (5 Y)
2] IIT BHU - Bio (5 Y)
3] IIT Kharagpur - Applied Geology (5 Y)
Unless you need the IIT Tag to flaunt in front of your relatives and unless you have some specific interest in these fields or unless you are planning to work hard to get a vertical branch transfer, go for NITs on the basis of your Mains rank or go for a drop. If your Open Rank is 3032, then you have a lot to choose from: - (The best options in no specific order, according to me are chosen as there are 50 and more branches open)
1] IIT Delhi Chemical (Dual Degree)
2] IIT Bombay Civil Engineering
3] IIT Madras Aerospace
4] IIT BHU Electrical Engineering
5] IIT Jodhpur Artificial Intelligence
6] IIT Guwahati Mechanical
7] IIT Bombay Metallurgical
8] IIT Bhubaneswar CS (5 Y) CS from all the newest IITs
9] IIT Indore Electrical Engineering
10] IIT Delhi Production Engineering
But if I were you, I had pick IITM Aerospace
PS - Data based on JEE 2020.

As I myself got 185 marks in JEE Main and cracked JEE Advanced with a rank of 20k and went through JoSAA in 2017, I think I am the right person to answer this. First of all, I would like to say you that you cannot predict about the marks very accurately so rank should be the parameter. Coming to NITs, there are 3 tiers of them. Not all NITs are the same. If you want to get CSE in any of the tier 1 NIT, then your rank should be less than 2000 in JEE Main. If you want CSE in any of the tier 2 NITs, then your rank should not exceed 5000 in JEE Main. And if you just want an NIT tag (which you shouldn't as NIT tag is not any big tag), then for CSE your rank should be less than 10,000.