Hello,

You must have your own EWS certificate if you want reservation in ews quota.
Eligibility criteria for ews certificate :

• Candidate should belong to the general category

• Candidate should not belong to any other reserved categories such as OBC, SC and ST

• Candidates family income should be less than 8 lakhs per annum

• The income of the family includes all the resources such as salary, agriculture, business, profession, etc.

• All the candidates whose family are the owner or have possession of such assets will be excluded from the EWS category, irrespective of family income:
• 5 acres of agricultural land and above
• Residential at of 1000 sq ft. and above;
• Residential plot of 100 sq. yards and above in notified municipalities
• The residential, plot of 200 sq. yards and above in areas other than the notified municipalities.
• All the property of the family will be clubbed together to determine the EWS status
• The term Family for this purpose will include the candidate who seeks the benefit of reservation, his/her parents and siblings below the age of 18 years as also his/her spouse and children below the age of 18 years.

Documents Required for EWS Certificate

• Passport-sized photograph
• Aadhaar card
• ID Proof (Pan card, Voter ID, etc.)
• Land/property documents
• Affidavit/Self Declaration
• Residential proof/Domicile Certificate

Authorities that can help you in getting ews certificate :
District Magistrate (DM) /Additional District Magistrate (ADM) / Collector/ Deputy Commissioner/ Additional Deputy Commissioner/ First Class Stipendiary/ Magistrate/ Sub-Divisional Magistrate / Executive Magistrate/ Taluka Magistrate/ Extra Assistant Commissioner

Chief Presidency Magistrate/Additional Chief Presidency Magistrate/ Presidency Magistrate

Revenue Officer (not below the rank of Tehsildar)

Sub-Divisional Officer (or the area where the applicant or his family normally resides).

I hope this helps.

Hello Aspirant,

No you cannot use your mother's EWS certificate because it has been issued on your mother's name but in JEE-Main 2021 application form you should upload the EWS certificate which is issued on your name and also note that it does not matter whether you have any income source or not a EWS certificate can be issued on your name because they will consider the family's annual income from all sources. Also the certificate which you will upload should be of the similar format as available on the official website of JOSAA which is given below :-

https://josaa.nic.in/webinfo/File/GetFile?FileId=10&LangId=P

Suppose If you don't have your reserved category certificate for EWS category right now then you can submit the undertaking which declares that you will submit the original and valid caste certificate later on at the time of admission. You can download the undertaking from the official portal of NTA, for which link is also given below :-

https://jeemain.nta.nic.in/webinfo2021/File/GetFile?FileId=5&LangId=P

When you visit on the above link you will find a PDF and on page no.9 there is undertaking format which you have to download and after filling it you have to upload it on the place of category certificate in the JEE-Main 2021 Application form.

For complete details about JEE-Main 2021 Application form kindly check out the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/how-to-fill-jee-main-application-form

Note that the photographs or images which you will be uploading for JEE-Main 2021 should be as same as the criteria set by NTA which are enlisted below as per the official information brochure released by NTA :-

> The recent photograph should be either in colour or black/white with 80% face (without mask) visible including ears against a white background.

> File size for candidate’s photograph should be in the range of 10 kb - 200 kb. File size for candidate’s signature should be in the range of 4kb - 30kb.

> File size for duly verified result awaited attestation form should be in the range of 50kb - 500kb.

> File size for category certificate (SC/ST/OBC/EWS etc.) should be in the range of 50kb to 300KB.

> File size for PwD certificate should be in the range of 50kb - 300kb in jpg/jpeg format.

Some insights of JEE-Main 2021 :-

> To qualify for JEE Mains, there is no minimum aggregate percentage criteria but yes if you want to take admission into NITs, IIITs or CFTIs then you should score a minimum aggregate of 75% in your class 12th if you belongs to General/Unreserved category and 65% if you belongs to any of the reserved category.

> Also from this year according to New Education Policy the JEE-Main examination will be conducted in English, Hindi and other regional languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Odia and Malayalam.

> In JEE-Main 2021 there will be total 90 question out of which you have to attempt only 75 (25 from each section) and there will be two sections for each subject, Section-A will be of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)(20 compulsory questions) and Section-B will contain Questions whose answers are to be filled in as a numerical value (10 numerical based questions out of which only 5 are compulsory to be attempted).

> In Section B, candidates have to attempt any five questions out of 10. There will be no negative marking for Section B.

> All question will be of 4 marks and in MCQs there will be negative marking of (-1) on incorrect attempt.

This year JEE-Main is being conducted with slight changes in it's pattern and it's conduction and you can check out all the changes from the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-main

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

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