For admission to all the courses of the Institute, a mechanism is followed in order to ensure reservation for Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Physically Challenged (PC) categories (referred collectively as reserved categories in this document) as per the policy of the Government of India (GoI). The candidates of these reserved categories also enjoy other benefits detailed below.

SC , ST and OBC candidates will be required to produce the original caste/tribe certificate issued by a competent authority in the prescribed format (given in http://www.upsc.gov.in/recruitment/scst.htm & http://www.iitg.ernet.in/jee/OBC_format.htm.

These documents must be produced at the time of interview, failing which they will not be considered for admission.

For any category of disability (viz., locomotor, visual, speech and hearing), benefit would be given to those candidates who have at least 40% permanent physical impairment in relation to a body part / system / extremity / extremities / whole body, etc.

The candidates in this category will be required to produce a certificate issued by a competent authority (mentioned in http://nhrc.nic.in/Publications/DisabledRights.