Overview
What Bihar Technical and Departmental Posts is, and who it suits
The assistant engineer advertisements of 28 April 2025 distribute 984 civil posts across the water resources department, 351; rural works, 231; road construction, 117; urban development, 85; planning, 82; minor water resources, 58; building construction, 55; and animal and fisheries, 5 — with 36 mechanical posts and, after 16 were added on 14 May, 20 electrical, at level 9. An engineering degree from an AICTE-approved institution or AMIE by regular study qualifies; age is 21 minimum on 1 August 2024 and 37, 40 or 42 maximum on department-specific cut-off dates from 2012 to 2020, with ten more for PwD and relaxation for contractual service. Applications ran from 30 April to 28 May 2025 at ₹750, or ₹200 for Bihar’s SC, ST, women and PwD candidates; the examination was held on 17 to 19 July after a rescheduling, provisional keys came on 24 July, final keys on 23 September, and OMR sheets were shown in September.
The commission’s scheme is six objective papers of 100 marks and one hour each: general English and general Hindi, each qualifying at 30 marks; general studies; general engineering science; and two papers of civil, mechanical or electrical engineering — 400 counted, with the category minimums of 40, 36.5, 34 and 32 per cent, scaled to 75 and added to a weightage of five marks a year to 25 for contractual assistant engineer service. There is no interview and no re-evaluation, and posts are allotted by department preference. The 2024 round on the same scheme — 113 civil and 5 mechanical engineers for the public health department, examined on 18 and 19 December 2024 — reached its results on 7 August 2025.
The Technical Service Commission’s rounds
- Junior engineers — 2,809 posts, December 2025 — civil 2,653 across eight departments — urban development 580, water resources 558, rural works 554, road construction 376, public health 357, building construction 149, minor water resources 62, animal and fisheries 17 — mechanical 70 and electrical 86, at level 7; 40 per cent for diploma holders from Bihar institutions. An October window was cancelled for a software error and reissued; applications to 12 January, extended to 30 January 2026, at ₹100.
- Staff nurses — 11,389 posts, April 2025 — GNM or BSc nursing with council registration; ₹600 or ₹150; a 100-mark test on the GNM syllabus; verification on 31 July 2026; result 27 August with 7,376 selected — 2,916 men and other states’ women, 4,460 Bihar women — and 301 disability seats carried forward.
- The paramedical and medical cadres — pharmacists, dressers, operation theatre, ECG and X-ray technicians, laboratory technicians, dentists, general and specialist medical officers — results through 2025 and 2026 — and 2026 advertisements for dairy field officers, laboratory assistants in thirteen engineering streams, ITI instructors, a food analyst, bacteriologists and bench chemists.
- The scheme — a computer-based test of 100 objective questions in two hours in Hindi and English, normalised across shifts, with 0.25 off per wrong answer and the category minimums, weighted 75, plus experience at five marks a year to 25.
Departmental examinations — what could not be found
This page carries the hub’s combined card for technical and departmental posts. The commission’s site returns no record for departmental examinations, its sections page lists a promotion committee section but no examination section, and its constitutional provisions and questions pages do not mention them; the general administration and education department sites were unreachable at the date checked, and the training institute’s site serves no readable content. No scheme, rule or notice for a departmental examination of Bihar government servants — administrative, revenue or police — is stated here, because none was read.
