OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026: Apply Online for 758 Assistant Executive Engineer Posts, Check Vacancy, Eligibility, GATE Score and Last Date

The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has released Advertisement No. 13 of 2026-27 (Notice No. 5762/PSC dated 9 October 2026) for the OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026. Through this recruitment, 758 Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) posts will be filled in Group-A of the Odisha Engineering Service: 750 AEE (Civil) posts, including 247 for women, and 8 AEE (Mechanical) posts, including 3 for women. The OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026 apply online last date is 11 November 2026, up to 5:00 PM, and the application link has been open since 22 October 2026. There is no written examination and no application fee — selection is on a valid GATE score (90%) and an interview (10%). All details below are from the official advertisement. Candidates tracking another OPSC recruitment can also read our OPSC ASO Recruitment 2026 guide.

OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026 – Overview

OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026 – Important Dates

The closing time is 5:00 PM on 11 November 2026 — an evening deadline, not midnight. OPSC advises candidates to submit the online application well in advance and not wait for the closing day, because there is no edit facility after submission. All eligibility conditions must be met by the closing date.

OPSC AEE Vacancy 2026 – Post-Wise and Category-Wise Details

Of the 750 Civil posts, 612 are backlog vacancies of previous years and 138 are current vacancies of 2025. Of the 8 Mechanical posts, 4 are backlog vacancies and 4 are current vacancies of 2025. The number of vacancies is subject to change by the Government without notice. The full break-up from the official advertisement is given below:

Persons with Disabilities (horizontal reservation, within the category totals). For AEE (Civil), 50 posts (13 women) are reserved for PwD candidates: Category-I (visual impairment) 15 (04 women), Category-II (hearing impairment) 16 (05 women), Category-III (locomotor disability / cerebral palsy) 10 (02 women), and Category-IV (multiple disabilities) 09 (02 women). For AEE (Mechanical), 2 posts are reserved for PwD candidates: Category-I 01 and Category-II 01. PwD candidates must hold a Permanent Disability Certificate showing 40% or more permanent disability; a certificate showing temporary disability is not accepted. Candidates belonging to the PwD category are adjusted against the categories they belong to.

Sports Persons (Civil only). 8 posts (02 women) are reserved for sports persons. To claim this reservation, a candidate must hold the Identity Card or Certificate issued by the Department of Sports and Youth Services or the Director of Sports, Odisha. Mere participation or award certificates do not make a candidate eligible for these posts.

Women candidates. Unfilled vacancies reserved for women are filled by eligible male candidates of the same category. There is no exchange of reservation between Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates if eligible candidates of one category are not available.

OPSC AEE Eligibility Criteria 2026

Age limit. A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not be above the age of 42 years as on 1 January 2026 — that is, born not earlier than 2 January 1984 and not later than 1 January 2005. Only the date of birth entered in the High School Certificate or equivalent certificate issued by the concerned Board or Council is accepted by the Commission.

Age relaxation. The upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years for candidates belonging to SC, ST, SEBC, women and ex-servicemen categories, and by 10 years for persons with 40% or more permanent disability. Persons with permanent disabilities belonging to SC, ST or SEBC categories are entitled to a cumulative age relaxation of 15 years. The maximum age limit is relaxed to 45 years for candidates who entered the Diploma Engineers’ Service as Junior Engineers and subsequently acquired the prescribed degree, subject to availing not more than 5 chances. A candidate who comes under more than one category gets only one age relaxation, except for the PwD addition above. Beyond this, the age limit cannot be relaxed in any case.

Educational qualification. The candidate must hold the qualification on the date of application:

GATE score — the decisive condition. Since selection is based on the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score, a candidate must also hold a valid GATE score in the same branch only: Civil Engineering for AEE (Civil) and Mechanical Engineering for AEE (Mechanical). A GATE score is valid for 3 years, so only GATE 2024, 2025 and 2026 scores are considered. The GATE marks must be at or above the qualifying mark of the candidate’s category or sub-category mentioned in the GATE score card — mere possession of a GATE score card does not make a candidate eligible. The advertisement’s own example makes this clear: an SEBC candidate with 32.5 marks is not eligible if the OBC-NCL qualifying mark printed on the score card is 33.3. Only the QR-coded GATE score card is accepted; no GATE mark sheet is considered. A candidate with score cards from more than one of the three years must upload the score card of only one year. Candidates must also submit an affidavit in the prescribed proforma (Annexure-I) affirming that the uploaded GATE score card is genuine. Any manipulation, forgery or tampering of the GATE score card is treated as a criminal offence, leading to legal action, rejection of candidature and debarment from future OPSC recruitment. OPSC may verify GATE scores by asking candidates to log in to the GATE portal during document verification.

Knowledge of Odia. A candidate must be able to read, write and speak Odia and must have passed the Middle School examination with Odia as a language subject, or passed Matriculation or an equivalent examination with Odia as the medium of examination in a non-language subject, or passed Odia as a language subject in the final examination of Class-VII, or passed the Odia test of Middle English School standard conducted by the School and Mass Education Department or the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha. A candidate who has not passed Odia in the High School Certificate examination may instead provide a certificate from the Headmaster of the concerned High School, or a certificate from the Principal of a recognised school showing Odia was taken as a subject in Class-VII or above, or an Odia Test Pass Certificate — and the certificate must have been issued before the last date of application. The Commission may test the candidate’s ability to read, write and speak Odia during the interview.

Who can apply. The candidate must be a citizen of India and of sound health; selected candidates are examined by a Medical Board before appointment (the health provision does not apply to PwD candidates). A candidate with more than one living spouse is not eligible unless the State Government has exempted the case. Government servants, temporary or permanent, may apply if they possess the qualification and are within the age limit, but they must inform their Head of Office in writing and furnish a No Objection Certificate during document verification. Candidates debarred by OPSC, another State Public Service Commission or UPSC for a period are not eligible during that period. Reservation and relaxation for SC and ST (by birth) and SEBC apply to candidates of Odisha only. The community entered in the form is final and cannot be changed later, and no request for withdrawal of candidature is entertained.

OPSC AEE Application Fee 2026

Not applicable. The advertisement states that no examination fee is charged, because the recruitment is conducted through GATE score. There is no category-wise fee table for this recruitment — no candidate pays any fee.

How to Apply for OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026

1. Read Advertisement No. 13 of 2026-27 and the detailed instructions on the OPSC portal at opsc.gov.in before filling the online application form.
2. Open the online application link on opsc.gov.in between 22 October 2026 and 11 November 2026 (up to 5:00 PM). Applications received through any other mode are not accepted and are summarily rejected.
3. Register on the portal. The online application form is automated and system-driven, so options open according to the data entered — enter accurate information and verify the submitted copy after submission.
4. For AEE (Civil), mark the order of preference among the three departments — Water Resources, Works, and Housing and Urban Development. This preference is final and cannot be changed before or after the publication of the result.
5. Upload a scanned image of a recent passport-size photograph, your full signature and your left-hand thumb impression. The images must be clearly identifiable and visible; unclear images lead to rejection without correspondence. Keep at least four copies of the uploaded photograph for future use.
6. Upload the required documents, including the QR-coded GATE score card of the chosen year, the affidavit in Annexure-I, the HSC certificate, the engineering degree certificate and mark lists of all semesters, the caste certificate where applicable, and the Odia certificate where applicable. Every certificate must have been issued on or before the date of submission of the online application.
7. Submit the form before 5:00 PM on 11 November 2026. On successful submission of the online registration, a unique Permanent Public Service Account Number (PPSAN) is assigned.
8. Take printouts of the finally submitted registration and online application forms, sign the declaration, and keep them with copies of the required certificates to submit to OPSC when asked at document verification.

Technical help. For technical problems during registration and filling the form, candidates may contact OPSC Technical Support on 0671-2304707. For guidance on the advertisement, the OPSC Facilitation Counter can be reached on 0671-2304141 or 2305611 (Extn. 227) between 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM and between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM on Odisha Government working days.

OPSC AEE Correction Window – No Edit Facility After Submission

There is no correction window in this recruitment, and the advertisement announces none. There is also no edit facility in the online form: if a candidate wants to modify any information after submission, the only option is to cancel the application and apply again within the OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026 apply online last date, 11 November 2026, 5:00 PM. OPSC states that it is under no obligation to entertain requests for rectification sent by email or letter after submission. Incomplete applications, including non-uploading of required documents, are liable to be rejected without correspondence.

OPSC AEE Selection Process 2026

Stage 1 – Document verification. After receipt of the online applications, OPSC invites candidates of different categories in a reasonable number, strictly in order of the GATE score uploaded by them, for document verification in a phased manner. The verification covers the validity and genuineness of the GATE score card, other documents, eligibility and reservation claims. Appearing at verification confers no right to selection. Document verification will tentatively start from the 1st week of December 2026, and the detailed schedule will be notified on opsc.gov.in.

Stage 2 – Shortlist for interview. After document verification, OPSC shortlists candidates who meet all eligibility conditions and have valid documents, on the basis of their scrutinised valid GATE score in order of merit. The number shortlisted in each category is about 2 times the advertised vacancies in that category, subject to a minimum of 5.

Stage 3 – Interview (10%). The final selection is on the basis of the valid GATE score and the interview taken together, with the GATE score carrying 90% weightage and the interview 10%. The Commission may test the candidate’s ability to read, write and speak Odia during the interview. There is no written examination in this recruitment.

Final merit and tie-break. The final merit list is prepared from the aggregate of the GATE score and interview marks, and the candidates in the final merit list are equal to the number of advertised vacancies in each category. If two or more candidates secure equal aggregate marks, the merit is decided by the marks secured in the interview, with the higher scorer placed higher. If the tie still remains, the older candidate is placed higher. After the result, OPSC publishes the GATE score (calculated at 90%) of the last finally selected candidate and of the last shortlisted candidate for interview, category-wise, along with individual GATE scores and interview marks.

OPSC AEE Salary 2026

Selected candidates are placed in Level-12, Cell-1 of the Pay Matrix as per the ORSP Rules, 2017, with usual dearness allowance and other allowances as sanctioned by the Government of Odisha from time to time. The advertisement fixes only the pay level — it publishes no rupee figure, so no exact salary or in-hand amount is given here, and in-hand amounts shown on unofficial websites are estimates. The period of probation is two years from the date of joining. Appointees are covered by the defined contributory pension scheme (NPS) under the Odisha Civil Services (Pension) Amendment Rules, 2005, and submission of the NPS application is mandatory at the time of joining.

OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026 – Corrigendum

OPSC issued a first corrigendum to this advertisement (Notice No. 5870/PSC dated 16 October 2026). It corrects two drafting errors in the original notice: the marks-entry note now reads “H.S.C. to Bachelor’s Degree in Civil/Mechanical Engineering”, and the admission-certificate clause now refers to a Certificate of Admission to Document Verification, not to a written examination — this recruitment holds no written examination. The corrigendum also states that the GATE example in the advertisement is only an example to explain eligibility. No date or vacancy was changed by the corrigendum, and everything else in the advertisement stays unchanged.

Do not confuse this with a different OPSC recruitment. Advertisement No. 07 of 2026-27 is a separate recruitment for 46 Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil) posts in the Odisha Municipal Engineering Service under the Housing and Urban Development Department, and it does hold a preliminary examination (rescheduled to 29 November 2026). That exam date has nothing to do with Advertisement No. 13 of 2026-27 covered here.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How many vacancies are there in OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026?

There are 758 vacancies in total under Advertisement No. 13 of 2026-27: 750 Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil) posts, including 247 for women, and 8 Assistant Executive Engineer (Mechanical) posts, including 3 for women. The posts are in Group-A of the Odisha Engineering Service, with the Water Resources Department as the nodal department.

What is the last date to apply for OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026?

The last date to submit the registered online application is 11 November 2026, up to 5:00 PM. The application link is available from 22 October 2026 on opsc.gov.in. The deadline is 5:00 PM in the evening, not midnight, so candidates should submit the form well before the closing hour.

What is the qualification required for OPSC AEE posts?

Candidates need a Degree in Engineering in Civil or Mechanical Engineering from a University or Institution recognised by the Government, or Associate Membership of the Institution of Engineers (India) in the same branch. They must also hold a valid GATE score in the same branch — GATE 2024, 2025 or 2026 only. The qualification must be held on the date of application.

Is there any application fee for OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026?

No. The application fee is not applicable for this recruitment because the selection is conducted through GATE score. The advertisement states clearly that no examination fee is charged.

What is the age limit for OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026?

Candidates must be 21 to 42 years old as on 1 January 2026 — born not earlier than 2 January 1984 and not later than 1 January 2005. The upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years for SC, ST, SEBC, women and ex-servicemen, by 10 years for PwD candidates with 40% or more permanent disability, and up to 45 years for Junior Engineers of the Diploma Engineers’ Service who later acquired the degree, with not more than 5 chances.

Which GATE scores are accepted for OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026?

Only GATE 2024, 2025 and 2026 scores are accepted, because a GATE score is valid for three years. The score must be in the same branch as the post — Civil for AEE (Civil) and Mechanical for AEE (Mechanical) — and the GATE marks must be at or above the qualifying mark of the candidate’s category printed on the score card. Only the QR-coded GATE score card is accepted; a GATE mark sheet is not.

What is the selection process for OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026?

There is no written examination. Selection is on a valid GATE score (90% weightage) and an interview (10% weightage). OPSC first calls candidates for document verification in phases in order of GATE score, then shortlists about two times the vacancies in each category for interview. The final merit list is prepared from the GATE score and interview marks taken together. Ties are broken first by interview marks and then by age, with the older candidate placed higher.

What is the salary of an OPSC Assistant Executive Engineer?

Selected candidates are placed in Level-12, Cell-1 of the Pay Matrix as per the ORSP Rules, 2017, with dearness allowance and other allowances sanctioned by the Government of Odisha. The advertisement publishes no rupee figure, so no exact salary or in-hand amount is given here.

Is knowledge of Odia compulsory for OPSC AEE Recruitment 2026?

Yes. Candidates must be able to read, write and speak Odia, and must have passed the Middle School examination with Odia as a language subject, or Matriculation with Odia as the medium of examination in a non-language subject, or Odia as a language subject in the Class-VII final examination, or the Odia test of Middle English School standard. Candidates without Odia in the HSC certificate must upload a Headmaster’s or Principal’s certificate, or an Odia Test Pass Certificate, issued before the last date of application. OPSC may test Odia ability during the interview.

Can I correct my OPSC AEE application form after submitting it?

No. There is no edit facility and no correction window in this recruitment. If you need to change anything after submission, you must cancel the application and apply again within the last date, 11 November 2026, 5:00 PM. Fill the form carefully, because incomplete applications and unclear photograph, signature or thumb-impression uploads are liable to be rejected without correspondence.

For more government jobs and daily updates, browse the Latest Jobs section of New Sarkari Results, and always verify the final details in the official Advertisement No. 13 of 2026-27 on opsc.gov.in before applying.

Written by Ravi Singh

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