Hello aspirant

Congratulations for getting 16950 rank in jee main.

NITk is one of the best ranked nits. Its hard to predict exact chance of getting admission in a college as college cutoff vary on various factor's. One can analyze past year cutoff to know chance for admission in current year.

Factor affecting college cutoff

1.No of student

2. No of seats

3. Difficulty level of paper

4. Past year trends.

Last year closing rank for home state students for nitk mechanical engineering.

14895

By seeing last year closing rank you have less chance to get admission in nitk but you can wait untill last round counseling.

You can predict best college according to your rank by using career360 college predictor tool

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Hope this will help you

Best of luck