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Can you tell me about the number of seats for OBC (Other Backward Classes) Category candidates in JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) Advanced 2017?

[Vishal Kotkar]

JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) Advanced accepting Institutes have various types of seats for the candidates based on their (birth) categories, presence or absence of disability and nationality.

Reservation of Seats
Indian nationals belonging to certain categories are admitted under the seats reserved for them in accordance with the rules of the Government of India. The categories and the extent of reservation are as follows:

Other Backward Classes belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL)
27% of seats in every course but the backward class should be in the current updated central list of OBCs

Candidates belonging to the creamy layer of OBC are not entitled for reservation. Such candidates are treated as belonging to the general (GEN) i.e., unreserved category, and they will be eligible only for the Open seats – the seats for which everyone is eligible.

Scheduled Caste (SC)
15% of seats in every course

The benefit of reservation will be given only to those castes and tribes that are mentioned in the respective central list of corresponding states published by the Government of India

Scheduled Tribe (ST)
7.5% of seats in every course.

The benefit of reservation will be given only to those castes and tribes that are mentioned in the respective central list of corresponding states published by the Government of India

Persons with Disability (PwD)
3% seats in each of OPEN, OBC-NCL, SC and ST category seats.

Benefit would be given to those who have at least 40% impairment irrespective of the type of disability i.e., locomotor, visual or SEVERE dyslexic.

Leprosy-cured candidates who are otherwise fit to pursue the courses are also included in this sub-category.

De-Reservation
Unfilled seats reserved under OBC-NCL category will be de-reserved to Open category seats. However, seats remaining vacant under the SC and ST categories shall not be de-reserved to any category. The reservation for PwD candidates is horizontal and hence, unfilled seats will be de-reserved to the respective categories i.e., unfilled SC-PwD seats will be converted to the SC category seats and so on.

Candidates belonging to the OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD categories will be declared as qualified on the basis of relaxed criteria.