Who qualifies for the IOE inclusive reservation quota, and what do you have to prove?
Belonging to one of the nine listed communities is necessary and not sufficient. You must also have studied at a government or community school, passed classes 11 and 12 as a regular student at the first attempt, hold a local-level recommendation that your family is below the poverty line, and produce a category certificate from a named authority.
Belonging to one of the nine listed communities is necessary for an IOE inclusive quota seat and nowhere near sufficient. The booklet attaches four conditions and each one rules people out. You must have studied at a government or community school, evidenced by your class 8, class 9 and SEE marksheets together with a certificate from the district education office confirming the school was public. For classes 11 and 12 you must have studied at a community or government school or a Tribhuvan University constituent campus, or have held a scholarship from the Government of Nepal or a body it recognises. You must have passed 11 and 12 as a regular student at the first attempt, with at least 45 per cent or a minimum C grade in every subject. And you must produce a recommendation from your rural municipality or municipality stating, with evidence, that your family is below the poverty line.
Condition one: a government or community school
The candidate must compulsorily have studied at a government or community school. The proof required is the marksheet for class 8, class 9 and SLC or SEE level, plus a certificate from the relevant district education office, or the government education body for your area, stating that the school was a government or community school. A private-school education from class 8 onward closes this route regardless of category.
Condition two: classes 11 and 12
At 11 and 12 or the equivalent level you must have studied at a community or government school, or at a TU constituent campus, or have received a scholarship from the Government of Nepal or a GoN-recognised institution. The evidence is your 11 and 12 transcript with the same government-school certificate, or the certificate showing you studied on that scholarship.
Condition three: a first-attempt pass
You must have passed 11 and 12 or the equivalent with at least 45 per cent, or under NEB letter grading a minimum C grade in every subject in the Final Grade, as a regular student and at the first attempt. The booklet says first attempt in terms, which means a subject cleared on a re-sit disqualifies the application even where the final transcript looks identical. The marksheet or transcript is compulsory with the application.
Condition four: the poverty-line recommendation
A deprived applicant admitted under the proportional inclusive quota must submit a recommendation letter from the relevant rural municipality or municipality, or the body it designates, certifying with evidence and reasons that the applicant is of low income and falls below the poverty line by the standard the Government of Nepal sets. The booklet then supplies a definition for districts that do not issue below-poverty-line certificates at all: there, an economically deprived person means someone the local level certifies and recommends as having an annual family income of less than fifty thousand rupees.
And a certificate from the authority for your own category
The booklet names a different issuing body for each category, and a certificate from the wrong one is not interchangeable.
- Disabled
- National Federation of the Disabled, or the relevant government body
- Adivasi or Janajati
- Adivasi/Janajati Uplift National Foundation, or the relevant District Administration Office
- Dalit
- National Dalit Commission, or the relevant District Administration Office
- Backward and remote region
- The relevant rural municipality or municipality
- Madhesi, Tharu or Muslim
- The relevant District Administration Office
Three rules that catch people out
- A Full Fee applicant who applies to this reservation quota has that reservation application cancelled automatically. The inclusive quota is a Regular-side provision only.
- A false declaration used to obtain a reserved seat cancels the admission, and the booklet says action follows under the law.
- The fees for a student admitted under this quota are the same as for any Regular student. It changes how you are allocated a seat, not what you pay for it.
When does all of it have to be in?
Within five days of the date the entrance result is published, at the place IOE designates, and the section adds its own deadline: the complete set has to be submitted before the first-phase lists are published, within the date on which applications were called. Several of these documents come from a district office, a national commission or a local government, and the campus will not attest your copies. Assemble them before you sit the examination rather than after the result.
Section 6.3(e), pages 15 and 16 of the BE/B.Arch Booklet 2083, for the four conditions and the per-category authorities; 6.3(f), (g) and (h), page 16, for the Full Fee cancellation, the false-declaration clause and the fee rule; 6.3(j), page 16, and the preamble to section 6, page 12, for the two deadlines. The deprived-person definition is the note under condition four, quoting TU’s Reservation Seat Admission Bylaw 2074. Read off rendered page images, because the booklet sets its Nepali in a legacy font that does not survive copying.
Sources
- IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083 · published 7 August 2026 · read 18 August 2026
Last reviewed by Ram Raj Thapa, Admissions Officer, Imperial College of Engineering. Every figure on this page is cited to the document it came from.