Alerts and Updates for State PSC Assistant Mining Engineer

Assistant Mining Engineer recruiting bodies at a glance

There is no single national Assistant Mining Engineer examination. Each state public service commission, and occasionally a central body such as the Indian Bureau of Mines or an institute such as NITK, advertises the post on its own calendar with its own fee, age band and paper design. The HPSC and Jammu and Kashmir PSC counts above come from an aggregator archive rather than a commission page and are shown for scale only.

Dates and windows

Every date above is tied to one named recruitment, not to an annual cycle. Nothing in the sources fixes a screening test date for the APSC 2026 advert, and no other state commission had a live Assistant Mining Engineer advert in the sources consulted on 22 September 2026.

What this means for your preparation

The commonest mistake is treating Assistant Mining Engineer as one examination with one syllabus. It is a post title that roughly a dozen different recruiting bodies fill on unrelated schedules, with different papers, different age bands and different domicile rules. A candidate who prepares for the Rajasthan paper and then applies in Assam is preparing against a scheme that has not even been published yet.

Treat domicile as the first filter

The APSC 2026 advert requires the applicant to be an Indian citizen and a permanent resident of Assam. That single line removes most out-of-state mining graduates before any question of merit arises. Before spending anything on an application, read the residence clause and the age clause together: APSC set 21 to 38 years as on 1 January 2026, while the Rajasthan advert is reported at 20 to 40 years. Neither band is transferable. Build a shortlist of the two or three states whose residence rules you actually satisfy, then track only those commissions. Tracking every state at once produces a lot of reading and very few eligible applications.

One post means no margin for error

APSC Advertisement 07/2026 carries a single Assistant Mining Engineer vacancy, and the notice explicitly says PwBD candidates may apply but no reservation is available for the position, so they compete in the general pool. With one post, category reservation does nothing and the effective competition is the whole qualified field. Contrast that with the Rajasthan cycle, reported at 24 posts split across general, SC, ST, OBC, MBC and EWS. The same preparation buys very different odds in the two states. Where a state advertises in single digits, the sensible planning assumption is that it is a supplementary chance, not the main target.

Prepare for the objective paper you can see

The only paper design visible in the sources is the Rajasthan one: 150 objective questions, 150 marks, two and a half hours, one-third negative marking, followed by document verification with no interview stage mentioned. That works out to roughly one minute per question, which rewards recall of mining methods, ventilation, surveying, rock mechanics and statutory provisions over long derivation. With one-third negative marking, a blind guess across four options is value-neutral at best, so the discipline that pays is eliminating to two options before answering and leaving genuine blanks alone. Verify the figures against the RPSC notice itself, since the pattern above comes from a coaching portal.

Watch for the scheme notice, not the advert

For Assam the application stage is already over, and the live document to wait for is the separate scheme of examination. APSC said the detailed selection procedure will be notified later. Until that appears there is no confirmed screening test, no confirmed mark split between written paper and interview, and no confirmed syllabus. Candidates who applied in July 2026 should set a recurring check on the Commission's notice page rather than relying on aggregator alerts, because the scheme notice is the document that fixes what the next six months of preparation should look like, and aggregators typically pick it up several days late.

Qualification wording is not interchangeable

APSC accepts either a degree in Mining Engineering or AMIE Mining Engineering Parts A and B. The Rajasthan route is reported as degree, AMIE, or a diploma from a recognised institution, and the aggregator separately lists a Rajasthan cycle of 56 diploma-level posts. Diploma holders are therefore eligible in some states and not in others, and the two routes sometimes lead to different pay levels: APSC quotes 30,000 to 1,10,000 rupees with grade pay 12,700, Rajasthan is quoted at Pay Matrix Level 14, and the aggregator quotes a band of 44,900 to 1,42,400 rupees for the grade generally. Read the qualification clause verbatim each time.

Common questions

Is there one all-India Assistant Mining Engineer exam?

No. In the sources consulted, the post is filled separately by individual state public service commissions and by central or institutional employers, each with its own advert number, closing date and paper. The most recent state notification is APSC Advertisement 07/2026 in Assam, which closed on 24 July 2026 with a fee deadline of 26 July. Rajasthan, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir appear as earlier, unrelated cycles. There is no common calendar, so alerts have to be tracked commission by commission.

What did the APSC 2026 Assistant Mining Engineer advert pay?

The APSC notice for Advertisement 07/2026 states a pay range of 30,000 to 1,10,000 rupees with grade pay of 12,700 rupees. That is the only pay figure confirmed on a commission page in the sources here. An aggregator separately quotes a general band of 44,900 to 1,42,400 rupees at Pay Level 7 to 8 for mining engineer grades across employers, but that figure is not attached to the Assam advert and should not be assumed to apply to it.

What is the exam pattern for Assistant Mining Engineer?

It depends entirely on the state. For Assam, APSC has not published a scheme of examination and says the detailed selection procedure will be notified later. For Rajasthan, Testbook reports a single objective paper of 150 questions and 150 marks over two and a half hours with one-third negative marking, followed by document verification. That Rajasthan description comes from a coaching portal rather than the commission, so treat it as indicative and confirm against the RPSC notification before planning around it.

What were the application fees for the Assam 2026 advert?

APSC listed 297.20 rupees for general candidates, 197.20 rupees for OBC and MOBC candidates, and 47.20 rupees for SC, ST, BPL and PwBD candidates. Fee payment was permitted until 26 July 2026, two days after the 24 July application deadline. For comparison, the Rajasthan cycle is reported at 600 rupees for general and OBC candidates and 400 rupees for SC, ST and EWS, which shows how far fee structures vary between commissions for the same post title.

Can a diploma holder apply for Assistant Mining Engineer?

In Assam, no. APSC Advertisement 07/2026 requires a degree in Mining Engineering or AMIE Mining Engineering Parts A and B. In Rajasthan the reported eligibility is wider, covering a degree, AMIE certification or a diploma from a recognised institution, and an aggregator lists a separate Rajasthan cycle of 56 diploma-level posts. The practical answer is that diploma eligibility is a per-state decision and must be read from the specific advertisement rather than assumed from another state's rules.

When will the next Assistant Mining Engineer notification appear?

Nothing in the sources fixes a date. The 2026 adverts traced here, APSC in Assam and NITK Surathkal, have both closed, and no other state commission had a live Assistant Mining Engineer advert on 22 September 2026 in the pages checked. The realistic approach is to monitor the notice pages of the commissions in the states where you hold domicile, since notifications are issued individually and often with a window of only four to six weeks.