MP Sub Engineer Civil 2026 (MPESB Group 3): Vacancy, Pattern, Syllabus and Result

The Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MPESB, also called ESB) is filling about 1,040 posts through its Group-03 Joint Recruitment Exam 2026, covering Sub Engineer (उपयंत्री), Draftsman (मानचित्रकार), Lab Technician and equivalent posts. Civil candidates take Paper C, which carries 858 of those posts, and the biggest single line is 290 Sub Engineer (Civil) posts in the Rural Engineering Service. Applications ran from 18 August to 1 September 2026 and the computer-based exam started on 6 October 2026. This page covers the vacancy, eligibility, exam pattern, syllabus, salary and what comes next, and we update it as the answer key and result appear.

Official notification: the full Hindi rule book is on esb.mp.gov.in.

MP Sub Engineer 2026 at a Glance

Detail	Information
Organisation	Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MPESB), Bhopal
Exam	Group-03 Joint Recruitment Exam 2026
Posts	Sub Engineer, Draftsman, Lab Technician and equivalent
Total vacancies	About 1,040
Posts in the civil paper (Paper C)	858
Application window	18 August to 1 September 2026 (edits to 6 September)
Exam start date	6 October 2026 (Tuesday)
Mode	Computer-based, objective, 200 marks
Application fee	Rs. 500 (general); Rs. 250 (MP SC, ST, OBC, EWS, PwD)
Age limit on 1 January 2026	18 to 40 years, relaxed up to 45
Pay (Sub Engineer, Rural Engineering)	Rs. 32,800 to Rs. 1,03,600

MP Sub Engineer Civil Vacancy 2026

The rule book lists vacancies department by department, each with its own post code and qualification. A candidate can apply for more than one post and set a preference. The largest civil lines are below.

Post (code)	Department	Posts
Sub Engineer, civil (120)	Rural Engineering Service, Bhopal	290
Sub Engineer (020)	Public Works Department (Chief Engineer's office), Bhopal	225
Sub Engineer, contract (037)	MP Urban Development Company, Bhopal	49
Sub Engineer (091)	MP State Agriculture Marketing Board, Bhopal	48
Sub Engineer (018)	Indore Development Authority	41

The 290 Rural Engineering posts are split 250 on the main roster and 40 provisional OBC posts that depend on a court decision. By category the 290 are UR 74, EWS 27, SC 44, ST 62 and OBC 83, with 32 posts for persons with disabilities. Sub Engineer posts in other departments, and the Draftsman, Lab Technician and Surveyor posts that also sit in the civil paper, make up the rest of the 858.

MP Sub Engineer Eligibility

• Qualification: each post has its own requirement. For Sub Engineer (Civil) in the Rural Engineering Service it is a 3-year diploma in civil engineering from a recognised institute. Check the post you want.
• Employment exchange: the rule book says a live registration with the Madhya Pradesh employment exchange is compulsory for all posts.
• Domicile: reservation, age relaxation and fee concession apply only to Madhya Pradesh residents. Candidates from other states can apply only against unreserved posts, with no relaxation.
• Nationality: Indian citizens; Nepal citizens can be considered if they hold the required certificate.
• Documents: you need valid certificates for your claimed category; cut-off for validity is the application date.

MP Sub Engineer Age Limit

The minimum age is 18 and the maximum is 40 years, counted on 1 January 2026. The maximum rises to 45 years for SC, ST and OBC candidates, women, government and public-sector employees, and home guards, subject to the rules. EWS candidates get no age relaxation. Ex-servicemen and certain government employees get extra relaxation as the rule book describes, but the total can never exceed 45 years for any category, except for contract staff and other cases the rules name. Age is taken from your high school or equivalent certificate.

MP Sub Engineer Exam Pattern

There is one computer-based paper of 200 marks, in two parts. The marking is 1 mark for each correct answer and 0.25 marks deducted for each wrong answer.

Part	Subjects	Marks
A	General knowledge, general Hindi, general English, general maths, reasoning, general science, computer knowledge	100
B	Technical trade-based questions (civil engineering for Paper C)	100
Total		200

The exam is held in two shifts a day. The first shift runs 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon (reporting 7:00 to 8:00 AM) and the second runs 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM (reporting 12:30 to 1:30 PM), so each paper lasts 3 hours. When an exam is held in several shifts, MPESB prepares the result with Normalised Equi-Percentile scaling, so your final score is a percentile, not just your raw marks. Minimum qualifying marks are 50% for unreserved candidates and 40% for SC, ST, OBC and persons with disabilities; EWS candidates get a 10% relaxation as per the circular.

MP Sub Engineer Civil Syllabus

MPESB's rule book names the subjects but gives no topic list, so the topics below are the usual diploma-level civil subjects, not an official list. Part A covers the seven general subjects in the pattern table above. For Part B (civil) expect these areas:

Subject	Typical topics
Building materials and construction	Bricks, cement, aggregates, timber, masonry, finishes
Estimating and costing	Quantity take-off, rate analysis, specifications
Surveying	Chain, compass, levelling, theodolite, contouring
Soil mechanics and foundations	Index properties, compaction, bearing capacity
Fluid mechanics and hydraulics	Hydrostatics, flow, pipes, open channels
Irrigation engineering	Canals, weirs, hydrology, crop water needs
Transportation engineering	Highways, pavements, railways, traffic
Environmental engineering	Water supply, sewage, solid waste
Structural mechanics and RCC/steel design	BMD and SFD, beams, columns, slabs
Concrete technology	Mix design, curing, quality control

MP Sub Engineer Selection Process and Reservation

The stages are the computer-based exam, then document verification by the department that asked for the post. The Board forwards the names of qualified candidates and the department checks the educational and other certificates. A reserve list of 15% of posts is kept and is valid for one year from the result or until a new result, whichever is earlier. Ties are broken by the proportionate marks, then by age.

Vertical reservation is ST 20%, SC 16%, OBC 27% (subject to the High Court decision) and EWS 10%. Women get 35% horizontal reservation, persons with disabilities 6%, and ex-servicemen 10% for Class III posts. The department decides the number of posts in each category, not the Board.

MP Sub Engineer Salary

The Sub Engineer (Civil) post in the Rural Engineering Service has a pay scale of Rs. 32,800 to Rs. 1,03,600. Technician-level posts such as Technical Assistant are at Rs. 25,300 to Rs. 80,500 (Level 6). During probation, new joiners are paid a stipend of 70% of the minimum pay in the first year, 80% in the second and 90% in the third; the full pay scale starts after probation is completed.

MP Sub Engineer Answer Key and Result

The exam began on 6 October 2026; check esb.mp.gov.in for the admit card, answer key and result as they're released. The rule book says that after the exam MPESB invites objections to questions, has subject experts check them, and then publishes the result. Candidates can enter their raw score on the computer screen after the exam.