🏥 Hanumakonda National AYUSH Mission Recruitment 2026: 8 Outsourced Positions, Separate MPW Written Test and Verified Roster

Collector & District Magistrate, Hanumakonda | Ref. 2835/E-I/RDDW/HNK/2026 | Signed 16 October 2026 | Receiving applications 22–28 October 2026

The Office of the District Collector & Magistrate, Hanumakonda, Telangana, has invited applications for eight outsourced engagements in five categories under the National AYUSH Mission (NAM) public-health programmes. The five distinct roles are AYUSH Medical Officer, Pharmacist, Psychosocial Counselor, Yoga Professional and Multi Purpose Worker (MPW). The work is under the administrative control of the Director, Department of AYUSH, Telangana, Secunderabad; selection is through the District Selection Committee (DSC) of the District Health Society. The advertisement specifies service up to 31 March 2027, with any continuation depending on need and satisfactory performance. These are not permanent Telangana Civil Services appointments. Read the six-page signed notification alongside the official eleven-page application pack rather than relying on the post names alone.

Do not confuse statewide sanction with this district's vacancies. Page 1 refers to a Government Order permitting 333 services statewide—38 contractual and 295 outsourced—but explicitly authorises filling only eight vacancies in Hanumakonda. Multiplying the district roster by that statewide number or announcing 333 openings in Hanumakonda would be incorrect. The district recruitment page displays a 22–28 October 2026 application window; the signed instrument itself is dated 16 October 2026. The district site separately shows an earlier publication timestamp; application-opening and signing dates must be kept distinct.

📊 Vacancy matrix: all five categories, all eight authorised engagements

📊 Official five-category vacancy chart (vertical bars)

What the roster does and does not establish. The source lists two SC (Group-II) roster points—one for AYUSH Medical Officer and one for MPW—and six OC points. These are actual printed roster allocations, unlike estimated reservation shares based on general percentages. The notification also describes 95% local reservation in its unit-of-appointment table and compliance with the Presidential Order. That does not authorise us to calculate a fractional local seat in each one-post category or to declare which individual appointment will be the non-local share. Local eligibility and roster operation must follow the competent authority's rules; OC does not mean "only unreserved-community candidates may apply". There is no separate ST/EWS/BC position earmarked in this particular eight-seat table; that should not be misrepresented as blanket ineligibility for other communities.

📊 Official roster points by advertised classification (vertical bars)

🎓 Essential eligibility — five jobs that cannot be collapsed into “any degree”

The educational criteria are on pages 4–5 of the signed notice. The separate application pack includes a post-specific form for each of the five roles. A candidate should use the correct form, qualification route and supporting documents. General recruitment lists that state only “Graduation/Pharmacy/Seventh Pass” obscure essential restrictions.

🩺 AYUSH Medical Officer — 3 posts, ₹40,000 monthly

The notice permits a degree in Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy or Naturopathy obtained from the specified type of legally recognised university/institution. It expressly describes not less than four-and-a-half years of regular institutional training, theory and practice, plus one year of compulsory internship. The official application form names BAMS, BUMS, BHMS and BNYS as examples corresponding to the four paths. It also asks for the relevant Board of Indian Medicine registration number. Submit evidence applicable to your medical system, completed internship and official registration status; do not treat merely enrolling for internship as proof of completion. A generic life-sciences degree, an unrecognised weekend course or a pharmacy qualification cannot substitute for the specified clinical professional route.

Recruitment analysis: This is a multi-zonal cadre according to the table on page 5: an eligible candidate may apply in any district of the concerned Multi Zone, but selection is restricted to one district. That rule differs from the district-cadre rules for the other four positions. It is an appointment-unit condition, not a promise that a candidate may hold multiple district appointments. Three positions are notified—two OC points and one SC Group-II point—but no Ayurveda/Unani/Homoeopathy/Naturopathy system-wise quota is printed. Do not infer one seat per treatment system.

Professional preparation, not an officially prescribed exam syllabus: A candidate should be able to explain the scope and limits of their recognised professional practice; safe history-taking and documentation, informed consent, when to refer to a higher facility, public-health counselling and the distinction between a documented clinical observation and an unverified treatment claim. The National AYUSH Mission's public-health programme description provides background on preventive and promotive services, referrals, integrated service delivery and outreach. It does not set this Hanumakonda recruitment's written examination or guarantee a particular clinic posting. Avoid making unsupported therapeutic efficacy claims in preparation material.

Practical interview scenario (editorial only): A resident seeks advice for a symptom that may require urgent referral. Describe how you document the presentation, recognise red flags within professional competence, refer appropriately and communicate that a referral is not a failure of AYUSH service. The district notice provides no formal interview question bank, marks or interview date.

💊 Pharmacist — 1 post, ₹15,000 monthly

The advertised qualifying alternatives are D.Pharmacy, B.Pharmacy or Pharm.D, with mandatory registration with the Telangana Pharmacy Council. These are alternatives—the candidate is not required to possess all three qualifications. Pharmacy registration is a separate condition, not automatically established by the diploma or degree certificate. The appointment is shown as district cadre, and the printed roster point is OC. There is no officially announced dispensing-skills test or minimum percentage threshold in this six-page notice.

Role-specific analytical context (not extra eligibility): Medicines management in publicly funded services requires reliable naming and records; preparation can cover reading an authorised prescription, batch and expiry identification, storage-condition documentation, stock reconciliation, tracking issues and reporting a suspected medication error through the appropriate process. The advertisement does not name a pharmacy software product, numerical stock-loss threshold, specific AYUSH formulation list or an interview mark distribution. Such assumptions would be misleading.

A useful record-check scenario: A physical shelf count is lower than the stock ledger. A credible professional answer separates recounting, locating issued-but-not-posted transactions, checking expiry/returns, correcting via authorised audit trails and escalation. It does not suggest silently overwriting stock history.

🧠 Psychosocial Counselor — 1 post, ₹500 per session, on call

The mandatory academic qualification is a postgraduate Master of Social Work (MSW) from the specified recognised university/institution. An unrelated master's degree is not an expressly notified substitution. Crucially, the notice states “₹500 per session” together with “at least 200 visits in a year (on Call)”. A visit is not necessarily proven to be a separately paid session; the notice does not define session-to-visit equivalence, a guaranteed call schedule, guaranteed annual earnings, a monthly salary, overtime, travel allowance or paid leave. The district roster shows one OC point, and the assignment is within district cadre.

Why the distinction matters: If 200 qualifying sessions were actually paid at ₹500 each, the arithmetic would be ₹1,00,000 across those sessions. This is only an illustration of the rate and count and not a guaranteed salary, an official yearly package, or an assumption that each of the 200 stated visits is billable. Without a formally specified payable-session definition and number of calls, converting ₹500/session into any monthly salary amount would be unsound. The notice says eligible candidates may be empanelled, with actual engagements as and when needed.

Professional preparation themes (not official syllabus): Informed consent, privacy, a non-judgmental psychosocial assessment, documenting observations without stigmatising labels, distinguishing routine supportive counselling from specialist clinical assessment, appropriate referrals, follow-up and safe record access. A counsellor's response to a disclosure indicating imminent danger should prioritise established safeguarding and emergency referral protocols, not unsupported diagnosis or sole management outside competence. The advertisement does not identify a specific psychometric test, reporting software, population subgroup or individual case-load target.

🧘 Yoga Professional — 1 post, ₹28,000 monthly

The notice gives two independent routes: a recognised degree in Naturopathy undertaken through at least 4½ years of regular study and one-year compulsory internship, or a recognised Diploma in Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences. The post-specific official form uses BNYS/DNYS as helpful qualification labels. The second route is an allowed diploma alternative and must not be erroneously rewritten to require a BNYS degree from every applicant. Conversely, “any yoga certificate” is not the stated criterion. The district appointment unit and one OC roster point apply.

Professional preparation themes (not an official skill test): Session planning, clearly separating participant-reported changes from clinical diagnoses, adapting activities to age, mobility and known contraindications, recording participation with consent, hydration and safe environment considerations, and knowing when to stop and seek healthcare advice. The NAM AYUSH services overview identifies yoga and preventive programmes at mission level; it does not establish a Hanumakonda-specific daily session quota, named asana demonstration, fitness grading or practical-test marks. Do not promise disease cures or assume that a yoga practical exam has been notified.

🚲 Multi Purpose Worker (MPW) — 2 posts, ₹15,000 monthly

For MPW the notification states Class VII pass and the ability to ride a bicycle or motorcycle. The word “or” matters: the advertisement does not demand both vehicle types and does not expressly demand an undergraduate degree. One OC and one SC Group-II roster point are published. This is a district cadre post. The official MPW application form specifically asks for the seventh-class qualification, and its supporting-document checklist includes relevant bona fide certificates; therefore automatically demanding a tenth-pass qualification for every MPW applicant would conflict with the recruitment-specific criterion.

Unlike the four other jobs, an MPW written examination is expressly notified. The authorised authority will allot up to 90 marks for the written test, plus up to 10 marks for age weightage. Neither the signed notice nor its linked application forms publish a subject-wise paper, question count, duration, negative marking, minimum qualifying score, test city, hall-ticket download portal, test date or answer-key timetable. Editorial preparation may cover reading instructions carefully, elementary practical numeracy, accurately recording visits and supplies, safe transportation of authorised materials, confidentiality, hygiene and field communication, but none of these is a published exam syllabus. Do not create a purported “official MPW syllabus” from plausible job responsibilities.

Practical readiness scenario (not a past paper): You are asked to record receipt and dispatch of outreach materials. Explain verifying quantities and receipt signatures, reporting mismatches and maintaining legible entries. This tests how a candidate could prepare for service; the district has not said this scenario will appear in the written exam.

🧮 Selection marks: general academic merit and the genuine MPW exam divergence

The District Selection Committee's rules on page 2 prescribe 100 marks in total. Four categories—AYUSH Medical Officer, Pharmacist, Psychosocial Counselor and Yoga Professional—are evaluated using marks in the qualifying examination (maximum 90) plus age weightage (maximum 10). MPW uses written-test marks (maximum 90) plus the same age weightage (maximum 10). This is an evidence-backed division of recruitment tracks, not a declaration of a common written exam for every applicant.

📊 Official maximum merit component weights (vertical bars)

Age weightage is precise, but academic percentage conversion is not fully specified. The formula printed is 0.5 mark for each completed year of age after 18, subject to a 10-mark cap, calculated on 1 July 2026. Thus a person aged 20 completed years earns 1.0 age mark, aged 30 earns 6.0, and aged 40 earns the capped 10.0. At age 38, the computed 20 years beyond 18 already reaches the cap. The notice does not set out the exact percentage-normalisation expression from each academic grade format into the 90 marks or a tie-breaker after totals. Never state a fictitious CGPA multiplier or cutoff. An illustrative—not an official candidate score—for a non-MPW candidate with 80/90 qualifying-exam-derived marks and 6/10 age marks is 86/100; for an MPW candidate the first figure must come from the actual written test, not their Class VII marks.

🎂 Age, relaxation and documentary eligibility

The base age bracket is 18 to 44 years on 01 July 2026. The signed notice specifies upper-age relaxation of five years for SC, ST and BC, three years plus eligible armed-forces service duration for ex-servicemen, and ten years for persons with disabilities, subject to the applicable governing rules. It does not list EWS in its five-year category, set a separate numerical women's age extension or establish how multiple concessions combine. Do not import relaxation rules from another Telangana recruitment notice without checking this specific instrument. The underlying 18-year minimum is not said to be waived for any group.

🧭 Local-cadre appointment and SC Group-II documentary checks

The appointment-unit schedule shows AYUSH Medical Officer as Multi-Zonal, and Pharmacist, MPW, Psychosocial Counselor and Yoga Professional as District cadre. The notice expressly mentions 95% local reservation and the Presidential Order. To establish local status, candidates should organise the education/study certificates and, for private study, the residence certificate stipulated in the official documents. Inappropriately substituting a casual address proof for an officially prescribed local-status certificate may jeopardise verification. The post-wise district versus multi-zone rule is meaningful even though all eight selected engagements are for Hanumakonda.

The exact two SC Group-II roster points should be shown in SarkariSapna's editorial analysis, but not transmuted into a broad claim about all SC subgroups, applicant category eligibility, horizontal reservation or a missing women/PwD roster split. The source provides no separate SC group-wise seat allocation beyond the two explicitly printed points. Reserved-roster processing also depends on competent-authority certificates and governing rules.

📮 How to apply — 22–28 October 2026, official receipt by 5 PM

Applications are accepted in person or by registered post, between 10:30 AM and 5:00 PM on working days, at:

Office of the District Medical & Health Officer (DM&HO), S-16, Second Floor, Integrated District Officers Complex (IDOC), Hanumakonda District – 506001, Telangana.

The final receipt deadline is 28 October 2026 at 5:00 PM. A postal receipt bearing 28 October is not sufficient if the application reaches the office after the deadline. The district notice disclaims liability for delays in registered post. This is not a walk-in interview date, online form closing timestamp or examination date. The notice does not specify an application fee, so no purported ₹0 “official waiver” or an invented DD fee should be listed.

Use the official role-specific forms. The eleven-page application pack has separate forms for AYUSH Medical Officer, Pharmacist, Psychosocial Counselor, Yoga Professional and MPW. Each asks for identification, age at the reference date, category/local-status evidence, educational records and the prescribed declaration/signature. A document checklist appears in each form. Professional council registration fields are relevant to Medical Officer/Pharmacist; MPW's specific form centres on Class VII and the ability to ride a bicycle or motorcycle. Do not simply reuse the medical officer form for a Class VII MPW candidate.

Gazetted-officer attestation is a mandatory phrase in the signed notification. Page 6 instructs candidates to enclose required certificates attested by a Gazetted Officer. Ordinary self-attestation alone should not be presented as sufficient. Assemble the prescribed application, relevant SSC/intermediate and qualifying-exam pass certificates and all-year marks memos where applicable to that post, professional registration proof for applicable roles, latest community certificate, study certificates (Class IV–X or prescribed residence alternative), disability or ex-serviceman evidence if claimed, one photograph on the application and the acknowledgment card. The generic list should not be interpreted to override the specific lower educational criterion for MPW.

🪪 Recruitment lifecycle: distinguish announcement, MPW examination and results

The notification speaks of a merit list followed by selection from finalised merit, but does not expressly announce an objection window or a fixed provisional-list calendar. Hence an objections lifecycle, if the district later publishes one, must be verified in the actual update rather than fabricated from another recruitment. Similarly no date-stamped 2026 result or cutoff is available in this signed advertisement. A valid SarkariSapna workflow should associate later MPW exam notice, admit card (if issued), question paper/answer key (if issued), merit-list update and selection result with the same unique recruitment identity, preserving sources and publication dates. A speculative “exam syllabus” page or fake result entry would damage accuracy.

✍️ MPW preparation boundaries — what is official and what is editorial

Officially stated: Class VII pass; able to ride bicycle/motorcycle; MPW written test contributes 90 marks; age contributes up to 10. Not officially stated: language of paper, objective/descriptive format, subject weightage, question count, negative marks, duration, passing marks, syllabus PDF, exam venue or date. Editorial practice may involve reading the application notice and keeping basic literacy/numeracy and service-record skills current; do not label these topics an official syllabus, past-paper pattern or guaranteed question bank. If an MPW examination scheme or official syllabus is issued later, it should be captured as a separate dated lifecycle update rather than rewriting this historic notification.

📌 Result-tracking discipline for SarkariSapna

Use this notification's reference number, district and date to disambiguate future lists from NHM or other Hanumakonda recruitments. A list titled “NTEP Lab Technician / STLS merit” belongs to a different recruitment. An appearance in a search engine is not proof that the AYUSH 2026 MPW test has taken place or that its final result has been published. Only actual official PDFs with a matching notification identity should become result records. Until then, keep result/admit-card/answer-key records empty and clearly mark official release dates as pending.

💵 Salary and outsourcing reality, without inflating the numbers

Four categories have monthly consolidated remuneration: ₹40,000 for AYUSH MO; ₹15,000 each for Pharmacist and MPW; ₹28,000 for Yoga Professional. Counselor is the exception: ₹500 per session on call, with at least 200 annual visits described. The contract is not a permanent job or a state-government pay-scale appointment; the signed notice gives no DA/HRA/annual increment/PF take-home calculation. The initial horizon 31 March 2027 is a calendar limit, not proof of a full 12-month payout for an October 2026 applicant. Any post-period continuation depends on need and satisfactory performance, not automatic conversion to a regular post.

A simple comparison is meaningful only for the monthly roles: AYUSH Medical Officer receives ₹25,000 more per month than Pharmacist/MPW as notified; Yoga Professional receives ₹13,000 more. Those are differences between advertised consolidated rates, not statements about clinical seniority or pension eligibility. The Counselor cannot be put on the same salary bar chart by multiplying a session fee by an unverified number of future sessions.

Official sources and source hierarchy

1. District Collector's signed notification, six pages, 16 October 2026 — controlling vacancy, roster, age, tenure and selection evidence.
2. Hanumakonda district recruitment notice page — application window and authoritative links.
3. Post-specific application pack, eleven pages — medical, pharmacy, MSW, yoga and MPW forms with document checklists.
4. National AYUSH Mission: AYUSH services and public-health objectives — independent mission-level professional context only, not a local recruitment rule or official test syllabus.

Editorial verification date: 22 October 2026. Candidates should recheck the district's notice page for corrigenda, hall-ticket announcements (if any), merit lists and selection notices. Nothing in the source grants permanent absorption, guarantees counselor calls or specifies an MPW exam date.