Hello Abhishek,

In order to answer your question, I will need to elaborate a bit on how EWS and other reservations work within the ambit of CLAT (or the consortium of NLUs). EWS ranking or any other ranking achieved in CLAT has a different number of seats allotted by respective universities. Such seats differ from university to university and can have horizontal or vertical reservations depending upon the university.

For example, NLSIU reserves 6% of the total number of seats for the Economically Weaker Sections. On the other hand, NALSAR offers 13 total seats for EWS but within that 3 are reserved for EWS that are reserved for residents of Telangana. more information for each university can be found on the official website of CLAT: https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2023/participating_universities.html

Coming to your question, with an EWS rank of 136 you can get a tier 2 NLU (but can differ on the result of that year). However, if your respective state offers EWS reservations for the residents of that particular state, then you may also get a tier 1 NLU. Hope this helps!

thanks.