OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026 Notification Out – Apply Online for 758 Posts

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Persons with disabilities (horizontal, within the above): 50 posts (13 women): Category I, visual impairment 15 (4 women); Category II, hearing impairment 16 (5); Category III, locomotor disability / cerebral palsy 10 (2); Category IV, multiple disabilities 9 (2). Sports persons: 8 posts (2 women). 612 of the 750 posts are backlog vacancies of previous years and 138 are current vacancies of 2025. Candidates must give their order of preference among the three departments in the online form; it cannot be changed before or after the result. Two Mechanical posts are reserved for persons with disabilities (one Category I, one Category II). Four of the eight are backlog vacancies. PwD and sports-person candidates are adjusted against their own categories; temporary disability does not count. Unfilled women's vacancies go to men of the same category, and there is no exchange between SC and ST.

Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil): 750 posts

Assistant Executive Engineer (Mechanical): 8 posts

The qualification must be held on the date of application. The GATE rules decide eligibility as much as the degree does: Between 21 and 42 years on 1 January 2026 : born not earlier than 2 January 1984 and not later than 1 January 2005 . The date of birth in the HSC (10th) certificate is the only one accepted. Upper-age relaxation: 5 years for SC, ST, SEBC, women and ex-servicemen; 10 years for persons with 40% or more permanent disability; PwD candidates of SC, ST or SEBC get a cumulative 15 years. Junior Engineers of the Diploma Engineers' Service who acquired the degree later may apply up to 45 years, with not more than five chances. A candidate in more than one category gets only one relaxation, except the PwD addition above. Candidates must be able to read, write and speak Odia and must have one of: passed the Middle School examination with Odia as a language subject; passed Matricu

Document verification in phases. Candidates are called in a reasonable number, category-wise, strictly in order of the uploaded GATE score, for scrutiny of the score card, documents, eligibility and reservation claims. Appearing at verification confers no right to selection. Shortlist for interview. After verification, about two times the advertised vacancies in each category (minimum five) are shortlisted on GATE score. Interview. Worth 10% of the total; the Commission may test Odia reading, writing and speaking here. Final merit. GATE score at 90% plus interview marks; the final list equals the number of advertised vacancies per category. Ties are broken first by interview marks, then by age (older first). After the result, OPSC publishes the GATE score (at 90%) of the last selected and last shortlisted candidate in each category, together with individual GATE and interview marks.

Pay: Level-12, Cell-1 of the pay matrix under ORSP Rules, 2017, with dearness allowance and other allowances as sanctioned by the Government of Odisha. Probation: two years from the date of joining. Pension: appointees are covered by the contributory pension scheme (NPS) under the Odisha Civil Services (Pension) Amendment Rules, 2005; submitting the NPS application at joining is mandatory. Selected candidates are examined by a Medical Board before appointment.

Reservation and relaxation for SC and ST (by birth) and SEBC apply to candidates of Odisha only . SEBC (non-creamy layer) certificates are valid for three years and must have been issued on or after 23 October 2023 . An OBC certificate is not accepted in place of an SEBC certificate. Women claiming SC, ST or SEBC must submit a certificate showing "daughter of" ; a certificate by marriage ("wife of") is rejected. Community once entered in the form is final; no change of category and no withdrawal of candidature is allowed. Certificates obtained just before applying and later found inadmissible lead to cancellation of candidature and punitive action.

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