JKSSB JE Civil Recruitment 2026: 458 Jal Shakti and PWD Posts (Advt 11 of 2026)

JKSSB JE Civil Recruitment 2026 covers 458 Junior Engineer (Civil) vacancies under Advertisement Notification No. 11 of 2026, dated 27 October 2026. Of these, 282 are in the Jal Shakti Department and 176 in the Public Works (Roads and Buildings) Department of Jammu and Kashmir. Applications are accepted online from 30 November to 29 December 2026. Civil engineering diploma holders and civil engineering graduates can apply. So can those with “AMIE Section (A&B) India”, as page 14 puts it. Only holders of a J&K domicile certificate are eligible. Rank comes from written OMR test marks alone, with answers marked on a machine-read sheet. The pay is Level 6, printed as Rs 35,400 to Rs 1,12,400.

JKSSB JE Civil Recruitment 2026: Jal Shakti item 266, PWD item 267, or both

This advertisement offers one job title under two item numbers. Item 266 is Jal Shakti and item 267 is PWD (R&B), and both have the same pay, qualification and selection rule (page 14). That makes the choice of items the first real decision.

• No duplicate forms for an item. Page 11, instruction (k), allows only one online application for the same item number. Where two forms exist for one item, only the most recent one counts. Sitting the exam twice for one item leads to cancellation and debarment from the Board’s exams as per rules.
• More than one item. Instruction (q) on page 12 asks anyone competing for several items to indicate each one clearly, depending on preference and eligibility. Posts are then given on “merit-cum-preferences”.
• No second thoughts. Instruction (l) on page 11 says a cadre and department preference cannot be changed once filled.

Page 14 does not say whether the two items will share a single written test. Page 5 says only that the exam date and centres will be notified separately.

How the 458 seats split across eight JKSSB categories

Both items are UT (Union Territory) cadre posts in Annexure A (page 14). ALC/IB stands for residents of areas next to the Line of Actual Control or the International Border. RBA is Residents of Backward Areas, and EWS is Economically Weaker Sections (page 13).

Ex-servicemen and disabled candidates have no seat count of their own in Annexure A. Their reservation cuts across the categories above, as the departments or the rules decide (page 4). The 458 figure may still change before the final list (page 2). Page 2 adds that the notice is subject to any writ petition or O.A. pending in court.

Who gets the Rs 100 cut on the JKSSB fee

The lower Rs 500 is printed only for SC, ST-1, ST-2, EWS and PwBD candidates; PwBD means persons with benchmark disabilities (pages 5 and 12). Everyone else pays Rs 600 on that wording. That covers Open Merit, OBC, RBA, ALC/IB and ex-servicemen candidates who do not also fall in one of the five lower-fee groups.

The fee is paid only online, through net banking or a card. An unpaid form is rejected, and the money is neither refunded nor carried to another exam. Any claim for an excess payment goes through the Board’s grievance e-mail, and chargeback requests are not entertained (page 5).

Upper age 40, 42 or 43 on 1 January 2026, and the ex-servicemen sum

Page 2 fixes age on 1 January 2026 and prints the birth-date limits too:

For ex-servicemen, deduct the length of your armed forces service from your actual age. You qualify if the result is at most 3 years over the maximum age limit for the post (page 3). Say an Open Merit ex-serviceman is 47 with 5 years of service. The answer is 42, within the 43 allowed.

Two dates matter here. Age is fixed on 1 January 2026, while degrees, domicile and category papers are judged on 29 December 2026.

Civil qualifications Annexure A accepts, and the JKSSB Bonafide Certificate

Annexure A accepts a three-year diploma in Civil Engineering from a government-recognised institute. It also accepts a degree in Civil Engineering from an Indian university, or AMIE Sections A and B (page 14). Anything else is “summarily rejected” at any stage (page 3).

You must hold the qualification itself by 29 December 2026. A qualification gained after that date gets the candidature cancelled (page 3). Anyone claiming an equivalent qualification must produce an equivalence certificate when the Board asks for it (page 3).

Studied outside J&K? If your degree is from a university, college or institute outside the Union Territory, you will need a Bonafide Certificate at document verification (DV). It must be on the Board’s format and issued by the Controller or Registrar of your university. Central University degrees do not need it (page 9).

Quarter-mark penalty in the English-only JKSSB OMR paper

Page 5 describes an objective, multiple-choice test with questions in English only. Every incorrect answer takes away a quarter of the marks that question carries. The syllabus, date and centres are to be announced separately.

Take a paper where each question carries one mark. Sixty right and twenty wrong gives 60 minus 5, or 55. The same candidate leaving those twenty blank would score 60. Page 5 prints neither the number of questions nor the marks for each.

No interview is listed for either item (page 14). Admit cards go online about a week before the test and are not posted (page 6). Bring the admit card printout, two colour photos with the date on them (not older than six months) and an original photo ID. Without the photos and ID, entry is refused (pages 6 and 12). Phones, smart watches and other electronic devices are banned even when switched off (page 9).

JKSSB document check: a missing or wrong-format certificate

Shortlisted candidates bring originals and self-attested copies to DV. Missing DV, or arriving without originals, ends your candidature (page 8). The notice also sets these rules:

• Domicile: a J&K domicile certificate on the prescribed format, issued on or before 29 December 2026 (page 2). Your birth certificate and other papers must also be valid on that date (page 8).
• Category: it must be valid on the cut-off date and uploaded at the time you apply, with no second chance to upload. A certificate in any other format is not accepted (pages 3 and 4).
• No valid proof shown: a reserved-category or age-relaxation claim without a valid certificate is treated as Open Merit (page 8).
• Ex-servicemen: page 4 asks for Form-XIV under Rule 18 of the J&K Reservation Rules, 2005, plus an affidavit before a First Class Judicial Magistrate. S.O. 361 of 2021 bars a second use of this quota by someone who has already joined a post through it.

Your Class 10 certificate sets the spelling on the JKSSB form

Copy the spelling of your name, birth date and parents’ names from your Matriculation (Class 10) certificate. A mismatch can cancel your candidature at DV (page 10). Once the application number is generated, nothing can be edited (page 10). The Board says the portal steps will be posted separately on its website (page 12).

Uploads are a live photograph and a signature of 10 KB to 20 KB. The category certificate and self-attested qualification certificates go in as PDFs of up to 200 KB each (page 10). A blurred or illegible photo or signature is rejected (page 12). Keep the printed form for DV; the Board does not want a posted copy (page 11).

In-service candidates route the printout, with the certificate signed and stamped by their office, through the Head of Department (HoD). It must reach the Board by the last date of DV (pages 12 and 13).

A 2025 JE Civil round: Advt 03 of 2025, written exam on 2 November 2025

The same two departments also hired civil JEs through Advertisement Notification No. 03 of 2025, dated 24 April 2025, under items 06 and 07. The Board’s What’s New list shows its written exam was held on 2 November 2025, followed by a final selection list. This time the items are numbered 266 and 267.

Other engineering forms: JKSSB Advt 10 and KEA JE Civil

Six days before Advt 11, the Board issued JKSSB JE Mechanical recruitment under Advt 10 of 2026. It has 127 PWD (R&B) posts and a form from 16 November to 15 December 2026. Civil engineers outside J&K may look at KEA JE Civil recruitment in Karnataka, whose online form is set to close on 26 November 2026.

Related lists on this site: Jammu and Kashmir government jobs, recruitment by state boards and commissions, openings for diploma holders and openings for graduates.

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