Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

The Seat allotment of NITs depends on factors like Gender , Category, community, home state etc.

You are asking about whether you could get NIT Surathkal with 56 percentile if no one above you applies. Technically speaking you could get , but it is not practical. There are Lakhs of people who dreams to get admitted into NITs so it is not possibly that student don't apply for NIT admission inspite of attaining good percentile and rank.

Now, With your percentile, it seems quite difficult to get NIT Surathkal. I suggest you to go for State government colleges or other Government funded Technical institutions.

To know more about what other colleges you could get you should use this tool:

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=jee_cp

Hope this will answer your query.

Thanks and good Luck!!!!!!