Hello Sathvik. You mentioned you belong to General-EWS category. Well, as per your percentile your AIR should come within the range of 158565 - 178250. Although your percentile is satisfactory, there is low probability for you get a seat at NIT as your performance is not up to the mark and as you belong to general category. However, as you belong to EWS division and if you belong from states like Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand where newer NITs are present, you may get non-core branches at these NITs with a domicile quota (although this possibility is negligible too).

Getting admission in NITs generally require AIR below 30000 . However, you may get NITs till AIR 40000 somehow as you are coming for EWS quota, there will be 10% increment in seats.

In simple words, it is less likely for you to get admission at NITs with this percentile.

I hope you find this information helpful. If you want to have a detailed report on your eligibility in various colleges based on your performance then JEE Main 2021 College Predictor:

Refer to this article if you want to know more about the cutoff trends in NITs: https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-nits

I wish you all the best for your success.

Thank you.