UPSC Advertisement No. 10/2026: 34 Vacancies (Engineer, Research Officer & More)

UPSC’s Advertisement No. 10/2026 is one of those notifications that looks small at first glance — just 34 vacancies — but turns out to be seven completely different jobs bundled into one document, spanning lighthouse engineering, Hindi legal translation, thematic map-making, and horticulture in Ladakh. If you’ve only skimmed the headline vacancy count, you’ve likely missed whether any of these seven posts actually matches your own qualification — so below, we’ve gone through each post individually: who’s eligible, how many seats, which category, and what the job actually involves.

One post, reserved for OBC, based at Noida but liable to serve anywhere along the Indian coast including the Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands. This is a Group-A Gazetted post under the Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships — you’d be responsible for the construction, improvement and maintenance of lighthouses and other aids to marine navigation, a genuinely unusual engineering brief compared to typical civil engineering postings.

The largest single post-type in this notification after Research Officer — 9 seats, spread across four categories, with one of the nine specifically reserved for PwBD candidates within the UR quota. You’d be assisting in the installation, improvement and maintenance of radio equipment and other navigational aids, again based at Noida with all-India coastal liability.

Qualification: Degree in Telecommunications / Electronics Engineering / Electronics and Communications Engineering (or IETE / Institution of Engineers Section A&B enrolled up to 31.05.2013), plus 2 years’ supervisory experience specifically in radio aids to navigation. Two years’ experience in power generation/supply/transmission with small-motor lighting and wiring experience is desirable, though not mandatory.

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A single UR post, and the youngest age ceiling on this entire list — just 30 years. Based in New Delhi, this Group-B Gazetted role is deeply technical and administrative at once: scrutinising Detailed Project Reports and cost estimates for Major Ports and Fishing Harbour projects, examining tender documents and specifications, and coordinating R&D proposals and committee work under the Development Advisor (Ports).

This is the one post on the list that isn’t engineering or science at all — it’s a legal-linguistics role in the Official Languages Wing of the Legislative Department. One UR post, and the qualification path here is genuinely layered, offering multiple routes to eligibility rather than a single fixed degree requirement.

In plain terms: if you hold a Master’s in Law, you need 2 years of qualifying experience; with only a Bachelor’s, that bar doubles to 4 years. Either way, you must also show a Hindi-medium educational background or have studied Hindi formally — this isn’t a generic legal post, it’s specifically about drafting and translating statutes into Hindi for the Central Government. Age limit is 35 years for UR, and the role is based in New Delhi.

The single largest vacancy pool in this notification — 11 posts, spread across four categories, based in Kolkata. This is a Group-A Gazetted scientific post focused on cartography and geographic research: producing thematic maps and atlases, analysing remotely sensed satellite data, conducting GPS and field surveys, and training staff in GIS and geospatial tools.

Qualification: Master’s Degree in Geography, Geology, Applied Geology, Geoinformatics, Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing, Geomatics, or Geospatial Technology — with Geography or Geology specifically studied as a subject across all years of your Bachelor’s degree. On top of that, 5 years of experience in geographical/cartographical teaching or research involving data collection and map preparation is required. A Doctorate in any of the listed specialisations counts as a desirable (bonus) qualification, not a mandatory one.

Posts 6 and 7 stand apart from the rest of this notification in one crucial way: both are reserved exclusively for Scheduled Tribe candidates and, more importantly, both are restricted to domiciles of the Union Territory of Ladakh. If you don’t hold (or qualify for) a Ladakh Resident Certificate under the Ladakh Civil Services Decentralization and Recruitment rules, neither of these two posts is open to you, regardless of your ST status elsewhere in India.

Both carry a 40-year age limit for ST candidates and a 2-year probation with mandatory induction training. The Horticulture Development Officer role involves implementing horticulture development programmes, promoting new farming technologies, and monitoring pest/disease control across departmental orchards and nurseries. The Soil Conservation Assistant role sits within the Command Area Development wing of the Agriculture Department, preparing detailed project reports and cost estimates for soil conservation works and supervising their execution on the ground.

Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (40% or more) get a 10-year age relaxation across every post in this notification, and two of the seven posts — Assistant Executive Engineer (Electronics) and Research Officer — carry an actual reserved PwBD seat within their UR quota (1 seat each). The other five posts are marked “suitable” for certain PwBD categories but carry no dedicated reservation, meaning a PwBD candidate can still apply and benefit from the age relaxation, just without a ring-fenced seat. Suitability varies quite specifically by disability type and post — for instance, Hearing Impaired candidates are marked suitable for the Civil AEE post but Blind/Low Vision candidates are not, while the reverse is roughly true for the Research Officer post. If you have a benchmark disability, it’s worth checking the specific suitability table in the official notification for your exact condition against your post of interest before applying.

This is a genuinely small fee compared to most Central Government exams — a flat ₹25 for the applicants who owe anything at all — but the rule is strict: an application submitted without the fee, where applicable, is rejected outright and no representation against that rejection is entertained. The fee is also non-refundable and can’t be carried forward to any other UPSC exam or selection.