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Karnataka fills its engineering posts through two agencies. The Public Service Commission recruits the Public Works Department’s assistant executive engineers as a Group A cadre with its own written examination and personality test, and the assistant and junior engineer posts of the water resources department and Bengaluru’s civic body inside its general Group B and Group C notifications. The Examinations Authority, since 2025, has recruited for the boards, corporations and departments that ask it — the Bengaluru water board, the small industries corporation, the agricultural marketing department — with the same two-paper scheme and the same compulsory Kannada test.
Nothing is open at the date checked, and the recent history is one of re-notification. The commission’s 2024 assistant executive engineer notification was examined in February 2025 and cancelled in December for want of Category I reservation; KEA’s 2025 assistant engineer posts were withdrawn and re-notified in May 2026 for the same reason, examined in July, and their marks lists published. What comes next is announced: 216 diploma-level junior engineer and town planner posts, notified in September for examination in November and December 2026.
Karnataka Technical Posts · checked 19 September 2026
The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.
Checked 19 September 2026
KPSC for PWD and the Group B and C posts; KEA for boards, corporations and departments
Nothing. KEA’s 216 junior engineer and assistant town planner posts are announced for September notification
Paper 1 general 300 marks, Paper 2 subject 300 marks, two hours each; 35 per cent to qualify; 0.25 off per wrong answer
Paper 1 general 100 marks, Paper 2 subject 100 marks
Notification
Checked 11 September 2026. No technical application is open on either agency’s site. The commission’s notifications page carries the December 2025 cancellations of the assistant executive engineer and surveyor notifications with no re-notification yet. KEA’s re-notified assistant engineer posts were examined on 4 and 5 July 2026, their keys published the same day with objections to 8 July at ₹25 each, and the provisional marks lists for assistant and assistant executive engineers are up. KEA’s note of 31 August 2026 announces the next round — 216 diploma-level technical posts and 2,062 non-technical ones — for September notification and November and December examinations; nothing had been published under it by the date checked.
| Recruitment | Posts | Applications | Position at 11 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEA — junior engineers and others for September 2026 | 216 technical: assistant town planner 119, JE civil GBA 50, housing board 20, KRIDL 15, groundwater 5, mines 4, agricultural marketing 1, draughtsman 2 | Announced 31 August; notifications due in September | Not yet notified; examinations November to December 2026 |
| KEA — Group A and B re-notification | 37 — AE civil 10 agricultural marketing; AE civil 18, mechanical 3, computer science 1 water board; AEE 1 and AE 4 KSSIDC | 21 May to 4 June 2026 | Examined 4 and 5 July; provisional marks lists published |
| KEA — Bengaluru water board | 165 including 20 AE and 51 JE | 17 to 25 November 2025, extended | JE papers 10 and 11 January 2026; final score lists 9 June and 4 August 2026 |
| KPSC — AEE, PWD | 30 residual and 12 Hyderabad-Karnataka | 3 October to 4 November 2024 | Examined February 2025; cancelled 5 December 2025; re-notification awaited |
| KPSC — Group B, March 2024 | 277 including AE civil 92 BBMP, 90 WRD; AE mechanical 10 | 15 April to 14 May 2024 | AE BBMP Hyderabad-Karnataka provisional list published |
| KPSC — Group C below degree, March 2024 | 313 including JE civil 216 and 54 in-service, JE mechanical 26 and 4 | 29 April to 28 May 2024 | Under process; a May 2026 result claim is unconfirmed |
A government circular of 4 September 2025 directed that every direct-recruitment notification issued after 28 October 2024 without reservation for Category I be cancelled and re-notified, following an interim order of the High Court of 29 April 2025. The commission cancelled its assistant executive engineer and surveyor notifications on 5 December 2025 after the examinations had been held; KEA withdrew and re-notified its Group A and B posts in May 2026, letting earlier applicants re-apply without a fee. A candidate who sat the cancelled papers will sit them again.
Overview
The commission’s route is the older one. The Karnataka PWD Services rules of 2018 give the assistant executive engineer — a Group A post at ₹83,700 to ₹1,55,200 — a written examination of five compulsory papers of 100 marks, four technical and one general, with Kannada and English as qualifying papers at 30 per cent each and a personality test worth five per cent of the total. The 2024 notifications for 30 residual-cadre and 12 Hyderabad-Karnataka posts were examined over four days in February 2025 and then cancelled on 5 December 2025, under a government circular requiring every direct-recruitment notification issued after 28 October 2024 without Category I reservation to be withdrawn and re-notified. No re-notification had appeared by the date checked.
The commission’s assistant engineer and junior engineer posts sit inside its general notifications. The Group B notification of March 2024 carried 92 assistant engineer posts for Bengaluru’s civic body and 90 civil and 10 mechanical for the water resources department among its 277 posts, with two objective papers of 300 marks; the Group C below-degree notification of the same month carried 216 civil and 26 mechanical junior engineer posts for water resources, with two papers of 100 marks — general knowledge, then Kannada, English and computer knowledge — and no technical paper. The assistant engineer provisional list for the Hyderabad-Karnataka cadre has been published.
KPTCL and the electricity supply companies recruit their own engineers, and their last assistant and junior engineer cycles on KEA’s pages are from 2019 and 2022; a press claim of 1,492 posts in 2026 has no official counterpart. The power corporation’s 2023 cycle, re-examined in December 2025 after the original papers, published its final score lists in January 2026.
Eligibility
| Post | Qualification | Pay |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant executive engineer, PWD — KPSC Group A | An engineering degree in the discipline; 20 per cent by open competition and 5 per cent from in-service candidates | ₹83,700 to ₹1,55,200 |
| Assistant engineer — KPSC Group B | BE in civil or an equivalent recognised by AICTE, including construction technology and management | ₹43,100 to ₹83,900 |
| Assistant engineer — KEA, water board | A degree in civil, electrical, mechanical or computer science engineering with 50 per cent, and a six-month computer basics course | ₹53,250 to ₹1,15,460 |
| Assistant engineer — KEA, agricultural marketing and KSSIDC | An engineering degree | ₹69,250 to ₹1,34,200 |
| Junior engineer — KPSC Group C | A diploma in civil engineering from the state board of technical education | ₹33,450 to ₹62,600 |
| Junior engineer — KEA, water board | A three-year diploma in the discipline with 50 per cent, and the computer basics course | ₹39,170 to ₹99,410 |
| Recruitment | General | 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B | SC, ST, Category I |
|---|---|---|---|
| KPSC Group B and Group C, 2024 | 18 to 35 | 38 | 40 |
| KEA water board, November 2025 | 18 to 38 | 41 | 43 |
| KEA re-notification, May 2026 | 18 to 40 | 43 | 45 |
| Recruitment | General | 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B | SC, ST, Category I, PwD |
|---|---|---|---|
| KPSC AEE and Group C, 2024 | ₹600 | ₹300 | Exempt; ex-servicemen ₹50 |
| KPSC Group B, 2024 | ₹300 | ₹150 | Exempt; ex-servicemen ₹50 |
| KEA, 2025 and 2026 | ₹750 | ₹750 | ₹500; PwD ₹250; ₹100 for each additional post in 2026 |
The Kannada requirement is common to every recruitment: a compulsory test of 150 marks at SSLC first-language standard with 50 to pass, whose marks do not count, exempt for candidates who took Kannada as a first or second language at SSLC or have passed the commission’s or KEA’s Kannada test since 29 November 2022. The Hyderabad-Karnataka, now Kalyana Karnataka, posts are notified separately under Article 371J and examined on the same papers.
Selection process
Each stage in order, and what it actually tests.
| Stage | Format | What it involves |
|---|---|---|
| Kannada language test | Compulsory, 150 marks, 50 to pass, not counted | Every KPSC and KEA recruitment requires it of candidates who did not take Kannada as a first or second language at SSLC and have not passed the commission’s or the authority’s Kannada test since November 2022. At SSLC first-language standard. |
| Paper 1 — general | Objective; 300 marks for AE, 100 for JE | General knowledge under the 2021 direct recruitment rules — two hours for KEA, an hour and a half for the commission’s Group B paper. A quarter mark off per wrong answer, with the fifth bubble for unanswered questions. |
| Paper 2 — the subject | Objective; 300 marks for AE, 100 for JE | The engineering discipline — civil, mechanical, electrical or computer science — at degree or diploma level. In the commission’s Group C below-degree scheme there is no technical paper; Paper 2 is Kannada, English and computer knowledge. |
| Select list | Percentage of marks; 35 per cent to qualify; no interview | Under rule 5(d) of the 2021 rules selection is on the percentage secured in the competitive examination. The PWD assistant executive engineer is the exception, with a personality test worth 25 of 525 and a combined list of open and in-service candidates. |
Exam pattern
| Scheme | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Qualifying | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEA assistant engineer | General, 300 marks, 2 hours | Subject, 300 marks, 2 hours | 35 per cent of the total | Kannada test 150, 50 to pass |
| KEA junior engineer | General, 100 marks, 2 hours | Subject, 100 marks, 2 hours | 35 per cent | As above |
| KPSC Group B — assistant engineer | General, 300 marks, 1½ hours | Specific, 300 marks, 2 hours | 35 per cent aggregate | Kannada test 150, 50 to pass |
| KPSC Group C below degree — junior engineer | General knowledge, 100 marks, 1½ hours | General Kannada 35, general English 35, computer knowledge 30 — 100 marks, 2 hours | 35 per cent | No technical paper |
| KPSC AEE, PWD — 2018 rules | Kannada 100 and English 100, qualifying at 30 per cent each and 35 aggregate; general knowledge 100, 1½ hours | Technical papers 1 to 4, 100 marks and 3 hours each | Written 500 | Personality test 25; answers in English except the Kannada paper |
KEA’s re-notification of 20 May 2026 says in words that one-fourth of the mark is deducted for a wrong answer but prints the figure as 0.75. The water board notification of November 2025 and both KPSC notifications say one-fourth in words and figures, and the KEA scheme has been a quarter mark throughout; treat the 0.75 as a printing error and the rule as 0.25. The PWD assistant executive engineer notification carries no negative-marking clause that could be found.
Sources
Checked 11 September 2026 against the commission’s notifications page and the 2024 assistant executive engineer, Group B and Group C notifications and the December 2025 cancellation; KEA’s various-departments pages, the water board notification of November 2025, the re-notifications of May 2026, the July 2026 key and marks notes, and the note of 31 August 2026. The notifications are in Kannada and the figures were read from them page by page. The Hyderabad-Karnataka vacancy splits of the 2024 KPSC notifications were not extracted, and the commission’s junior engineer result of May 2026 reported in the press was not found on its results page.
KPSC — AEE, PWD, residual cadre notification, 18 September 2024 KPSC — AEE cancellation, 5 December 2025 KPSC — Group B notification, 13 March 2024 KPSC — Group C below-degree notification, 15 March 2024 KPSC — provisional select lists KEA — Bengaluru water board notification, 15 November 2025 KEA — re-notification, residual cadre, 20 May 2026 KEA — re-notification, Kalyana Karnataka, 20 May 2026 KEA — provisional AE and AEE marks list KEA — KPCL 2023 recruitment
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
Questions
No. KEA’s re-notified assistant engineer posts were examined on 4 and 5 July 2026 and their marks lists are published; the commission’s 2024 assistant executive engineer notification was cancelled in December 2025 and not yet re-notified. KEA announced on 31 August 2026 that 216 diploma-level junior engineer and assistant town planner posts will be notified in September for examination in November and December.
Two objective papers of 300 marks and two hours each — Paper 1 general, Paper 2 the discipline — with 0.25 deducted per wrong answer and a fifth bubble for unanswered questions, 35 per cent of the total to qualify, and selection on the percentage of marks. A compulsory Kannada test of 150 marks with 50 to pass, not counted, applies to candidates who did not study Kannada at SSLC. No interview.
In the 2024 Group C below-degree notification, two objective papers of 100 marks: general knowledge in an hour and a half, and general Kannada 35, general English 35 and computer knowledge 30 in two hours. There is no engineering paper. A quarter mark off per wrong answer, 35 per cent to qualify, and the compulsory Kannada test. KEA’s junior engineer scheme, by contrast, has a 100-mark subject paper.
A government circular of 4 September 2025, following a High Court interim order of 29 April 2025, required every direct-recruitment notification issued after 28 October 2024 without Category I reservation to be cancelled and re-notified. The commission cancelled the 30-post residual and 12-post Hyderabad-Karnataka AEE notifications on 5 December 2025, after the written examinations of February 2025 had been held. No re-notification had appeared by 11 September 2026.
Yes, in every KPSC and KEA recruitment — 150 marks at SSLC first-language standard with 50 to pass, whose marks are not counted. Candidates who took Kannada as a first or second language at SSLC, or have passed the commission’s or KEA’s Kannada test since 29 November 2022, are exempt.
KEA charged ₹750 for the general and 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B categories, ₹500 for SC, ST, Category I, ex-servicemen and third-gender candidates and ₹250 for PwD in 2025 and 2026, with ₹100 per additional post in the May 2026 notification. The commission charged ₹600 and ₹300 for the AEE and Group C posts and ₹300 and ₹150 for Group B in 2024, with SC, ST, Category I and PwD exempt and ex-servicemen ₹50.
It has moved with one-time relaxations. The commission’s 2024 notifications set 18 to 35 for the general category, 38 for 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B, and 40 for SC, ST and Category I. KEA’s November 2025 water board notification set 38, 41 and 43 with a three-year relaxation; its May 2026 re-notification 40, 43 and 45 with a five-year relaxation ordered on 29 January 2026.
By KEA’s note of 31 August 2026: 119 assistant town planners, 50 junior civil engineers for the Greater Bengaluru Authority, 20 for the housing board, 15 for the rural infrastructure development corporation, 5 for groundwater, 4 for mines and geology, 1 for agricultural marketing and 2 draughtsmen for the slum development board — 216 diploma-level posts, 185 residual and 31 Kalyana Karnataka — alongside 2,062 non-technical posts. The Paper 2 syllabus is to be published separately.
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