According to NTA, regarding JEE Mains and NTA,  if you belong to OBC Category, the Category you belong to should be also listed in the Central OBC list. Or else you will be considered as General Category. Now Veershaiva Lingayat is not listed under Central OBC list. So it will fall under General Category for both JEE Mains and NEET. The Communities we found in Central OBC list are: Lingayat Gowli, Lingayat Medhar, Agasa Lingayat, Lingayat Madivala, Lingayat Gurav, Lingayat Hugar, Lingayat Malgar, Lingayat Jeer, Lingayat Kumbar, Lingayat Kuruba, Lingayat Uppura, Lingayat Hatgar, Lingayar Kurushinas, Lingayat Bilijedaru, Lingayat Neelagar, Lingayat Sajjan, Lingayat Ganiga, Lingayat Nayinda, Lingayat Bajantri, Lingayat Bhandari, Lingayat Hadapada and Lingayat Baligela.