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Students who fall under CRL rank 96861 and EWS category should evaluate the following government colleges. The cutoff ranking for EWS category students amounting to 80,000-90,000 can be observed at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Ludhiana, Punjab. The EWS category cutoff rank at Chaudhary Devi Lal Memorial Government Engineering College in Sirsa will fall within 70,000-80,000. Students from the EWS category at Government Engineering College, Ajmer in Rajasthan should aim for a cutoff rank between 60,000 and 70,000. Engineer education in these colleges costs between INR 20,000 and INR 50,000 yearly.

VIT Vellore uses VITEEE entrance examination results for making seat allocations to students. VIT Vellore conducts its own admission exam VITEEE to determine seat distribution through student performance in this test. Candidates who score 118 points and above in the VITEEE 2024 will receive an opening rank of 1 along with a range of 250 possible closing ranks. At the same time, candidates who scored between 113-117 points during the VITEEE 2024 can expect an opening rank of 251 combined with a maximum closing rank of 500. The university relies on equating methodology to determine candidate rankings through their exam scores.

With 87% in JEE Mains and 84.2% in your HS exam, you will expect admission into state-level engineering colleges, private universities such as Amity or Sharda, and lower-grade NITs or IIITs if your category rank holds good. In the case of NITs and IIITs, cutoff depends on the branch and category, with general category cutoff being generally above 93 percentile. You can also look into GFTIs and colleges under JoSAA counseling. They usually provide fixed cutoffs and direct admissions on the basis of JEE marks or HS scores. See official counseling websites for exact options.

Based on JEE Mains 2024, 96.3 percentile and 57364 rank  for admission DTU or NSUT are more challenging. In 2024, the closing ranks for various B.Tech programs at DTU under the AI General category were as follows:-

Computer Science and Engineering: 6,406

Information Technology: 6,871

Software Engineering: 10,046

Electrical Engineering: 15,907

Mechanical Engineering: 20,977

Civil Engineering: 28,180

Biotechnology: 26,859

So this rank is very challenging for get admission. You can try private institute for admission. 

To get admission to the CSE branch at engineering college in Ahmednagar with 74 percentile in JEE Mains under the OBC NCL category may be challenging. For instance, the JEE Main 2024 cutoff for the OBC-NCL category was 79.The JEE Main 2024 closing ranks for the CSE branch at this college were as follows:- Round 1:-209,430

Round 2:-190,940

Round 3:-133,846

74 percentile means above the rank 300,000. This rank is significantly higher than the closing ranks mentioned above, indicating that admission to the CSE branch is challenging. 

To get the admission in IIT Chennai for Gen EWS, you must get the best rank in JEE Mains advanced and you must pass the IIT Madras cutoff which changes every year. The rank of JEE Advanced will determine the seat. For GEN EWS process you must take part in JoSAA Counseling and finish the admission process.