HPRCA Radiographer (Job Trainee) 2026 — 43 Seats, Post Code 26061

Advertisement 15/2026 | Issued 3 November 2026 | Himachal Pradesh Rajya Chayan Aayog, Hamirpur

The Himachal Pradesh Rajya Chayan Aayog (HPRCA) has advertised 43 Radiographer (Job Trainee) positions to be filled for two Government of Himachal Pradesh departments. Both use one post code, 26061: 19 positions are assigned to the Department of Health & Family Welfare and 24 positions to the Department of Medical Education & Research. The advertised payment is a consolidated fixed amount of ₹18,000 per month under the Job Trainee Scheme–2025. It is not an advertised regular pay-matrix salary or a promise of permanent employment.

The most important eligibility point: being a science graduate alone is insufficient. A candidate needs 10+2 Science, one of the specifically recognised radiology/imaging/radiation-technology bachelor's degrees, registration with the Himachal Pradesh Para Medical Council (now the State Allied Health Care Council, HP), and compliance with the notice's Matriculation/10+2 schooling condition. Candidates should verify these requirements before paying ₹800, because the examination and processing charge is non-refundable.

Application window: 12 November 2026, 10:00 AM to 7 December 2026, 11:59 PM (IST). Applications are online through the official HPRCA application system; registration alone does not mean that an application has been submitted. The written test date is not announced in Advertisement 15/2026.

1. What is being recruited, and who will appoint the candidates?

The departments, rather than HPRCA itself, are the eventual workplaces. The notice does not allocate each vacancy to a named hospital, institute, city or district. A candidate cannot derive a guaranteed posting location merely from the department name. The advertised vacancy number may change if the recruiting authorities forward qualifying additional requisitions before 31 March 2027 or the written screening test, whichever occurs earlier. Until a genuine revised notice appears, the advertised count is 43.

2. Read the exact 43-seat roster before choosing a category

Both departmental rosters appear on page 4 of Advertisement 15/2026. The two lists are separate, but the post code is the same. The entries below reproduce the advertised category/subcategory labels, including the state-specific BPL (Below Poverty Line) and WFF (Ward of Freedom Fighter) labels. Do not add any of these notified subgroup seats a second time.

Department A: Health & Family Welfare — 19 seats

This department has just one plain General (UR) seat in its printed breakdown, while six seats are expressly labelled HP EWS and eight seats are labelled HP OBC when its UR and BPL lines are added. The distinction matters when deciding whether a valid HP certificate is needed. A non-HP OBC certificate is not a substitute for an HP OBC seat claim.

Department B: Medical Education & Research — 24 seats

An applicant who is eligible for several types of consideration must follow the actual reservation and merit rules. The advertisement explains that meritorious reserved-category candidates may seek a preferred department through the prescribed consideration process; it does not offer every applicant an unconditional choice of department.

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🥧 Where the 43 Radiographer vacancies are located

📊 Exact combined category/subcategory seats

The combined rows total 43. These labels are useful for comparing the printed roster, not an invitation to convert one reserved seat into another. The state's actual certificate rules and the merit-allocation process determine eligibility.

3. Eligibility: complete all three essential academic/professional conditions

Requirement A — 10+2 Science. The applicant must have passed 10+2 with Science from a recognised Board of School Education or university. This is a separate requirement; a later degree does not remove it.

Requirement B — accepted radiography/imaging bachelor's degree. The original notice supplies specific acceptable degree titles, separated by alternatives. A recognised university degree must fall under an accepted title, such as:

These are alternative bachelor's degree names; an applicant does not need eleven degrees. Conversely, a B.Sc. in an unrelated subject is not converted into an accepted radiographer qualification merely because it is a science degree. A diploma alone is not advertised as a substitute for the bachelor's degree. If a degree's name differs from the notified choices, applicants should obtain an authoritative eligibility clarification rather than assume equivalence.

Requirement C — professional registration. The candidate must be registered with the Himachal Pradesh Para Medical Council, Shimla, described in the notice as presently the State Allied Health Care Council, HP. A relevant radiography degree without this professional registration does not satisfy the complete requirement. Check the registered professional category, certificate particulars and the ability to produce the genuine registration evidence when asked.

Does schooling in Himachal Pradesh matter?

Yes. The note continuing from page 4 onto page 5 requires the candidate to have passed Matriculation and 10+2 from a school or institution situated within Himachal Pradesh. It expressly states that this particular school-location condition does not apply to bona-fide Himachalis. It does not waive the essential degree, 10+2 Science or professional council registration.

For example, a bona-fide Himachali who completed schooling outside HP should prepare evidence of bona-fide status. A person who attended school outside HP and cannot use the bona-fide exception should not assume that a radiology degree alone overrides the school-location condition. For HP reservation, applicants must separately satisfy the state-specific certificate rules.

When must the qualifications be complete?

The relevant essential educational/professional qualifications must be possessed by 7 December 2026, 11:59 PM, the application closing cutoff. The document specifies that the date shown on the certificate/degree or its issue date can be used where an award date is disputed, and the onus of proving recognition and the qualification is on the applicant. A course merely expected to finish later is not established eligibility by this deadline.

Desirable qualification: Knowledge of local Himachal Pradesh customs, manners and dialects and suitability for the state's particular conditions is mentioned as desirable. It is not presented as a separate qualifying radiography examination, minimum job-experience requirement or additional compulsory academic subject.

4. Age: calculate on 1 January 2026, not on the exam date

The notice mentions eligible HP-domiciled SC/ST/OBC/PwD candidates, eligible HP Government employees, and eligible ex-servicemen of HP in connection with permissible upper-age relaxation. The existence of a possible five-year relaxation is not a blanket 50-year upper limit for everybody. Applicants should check their own applicable order and document proof. A certificate submitted only after the cut-off may not cure a missing eligibility requirement at the relevant stage.

5. Certificates: validity on two separate occasions matters

A crucial difference from many short recruitment summaries is that a certificate may need to be valid both when online applications close and again during the later verification. A valid certificate on 7 December alone may be insufficient if it is no longer valid when original documents are scrutinised.

The notice describes what happens if a valid OBC-NCL, EWS or BPL certificate cannot be produced during verification: reconsideration in General (UR) or the applicable main category can be subject to eligibility, cutoff and payment of any differential fee, and is not a guaranteed rescue for an invalid claim. A candidate should not plan to rely on that possibility. Category selection also becomes restricted after the correction window closes.

Special BPL–EWS provision: The notification discusses a candidate in the unreserved BPL category claiming EWS treatment. The prescribed BPL certificate countersigned by the Block Development Officer, along with proof of not belonging to SC/ST/OBC where required, is specifically mentioned. Being in a BPL household alone is not an automatic substitute for every required EWS document. Verify the exact form applicable to the claim.

Residents of other states

HPRCA explains that the reservation benefits labelled “of HP” are state-specific. A candidate in a reserved category of another state is considered General (Unreserved) for these HP reservation benefits; this does not remove the separate school-location and council-registration eligibility conditions. Candidates should verify the situation before selecting a category and paying the initial fee.

6. Payment and type of appointment — what ₹18,000 actually means

Radiographer (Job Trainee) is advertised with a fixed consolidated amount of ₹18,000 per month. HPRCA says engagement and recruitment are governed by the HP Job Trainee Scheme–2025, notified vide PER(AP)-C-B(15)-3/2024, 19 July 2025. The notice does not itself specify an assured regular salary band, automatic annual increments, housing allowance, permanent job status, pension entitlement, future absorption or a particular training duration. Do not budget for such extras on the strength of this advertisement.

The distinction matters to candidates comparing this post with a regularly appointed Radiographer or a short-term outsourced hospital contract: the published offer is a specific Job Trainee scheme with a defined fixed amount. Read any later appointment letter and the applicable scheme before deciding on joining, resignation from another job or moving residence.

7. Radiographer CBT / written screening: full examination guide

Advertisement 15/2026 (3 November 2026) | 43 vacancies | Himachal Pradesh Rajya Chayan Aayog (HPRCA)

This examination is for one common Radiographer post code 26061 serving two recruiting departments: 19 posts in Health & Family Welfare and 24 posts in Medical Education & Research. Both departments are listed under the same Radiographer (Job Trainee) recruitment. The selection test assesses knowledge at the level of the prescribed radiography/imaging qualification and the general areas specified in the advertisement. It is not a postgraduate radiology entrance test or a separate examination for each department.

7.1 The examination pattern actually announced

What the 90-minute limit means: Dividing 90 minutes by 120 questions leaves an average of 45 seconds per question. This is a time-management calculation, not a per-question timer prescribed by HPRCA. A candidate can answer familiar items quickly and reserve time for technical calculations or longer reasoning questions; the final exam instructions take priority over any practice strategy.

7.2 The officially notified syllabus: know exactly what has and has not been fixed

The vacancy notification identifies these examination areas, without giving each area a chapter-wise mark allotment:

HPRCA refers candidates to the detailed syllabus available through its official Syllabus/Downloads facility. Until a post-code-specific syllabus is confirmed, do not rely on claims such as “70 radiography questions plus 50 general questions,” a particular imaging-topic weightage, a promised bilingual paper, or a guessed negative-marking rule. Those details are not specified in Advertisement 15/2026.

7.3 Degree-level Radiographer preparation: a practical topic map

Important distinction: The subjects below are an educational revision map, not a claim that HPRCA has issued this exact chapter list or assigned any marks to it. The map follows the type of B.Sc. radiodiagnosis/radiotherapy coursework published by Atal Medical and Research University, Himachal Pradesh, and the professional degree disciplines accepted for this recruitment. The University's syllabus is an academic reference; the Commission's subsequently issued Radiographer syllabus, if any, must be followed for the actual examination.

7.3.1 Human anatomy and physiology for image interpretation

Review anatomical orientation, planes and movements, bones, joints and major landmarks; skull, facial bones and paranasal sinuses; vertebral column; shoulder, upper limb, pelvis and lower limb. Revise thoracic structures and the respiratory system; cardiovascular anatomy; abdominal and urinary organs; endocrine and nervous-system fundamentals; and cross-sectional anatomy encountered in medical imaging. For applied revision, practise relating an anatomical structure to the required projection or imaging region rather than memorising names without their location.

7.3.2 Basic radiation physics and X-ray production

Revise electromagnetic radiation, atomic structure, ionisation and radioactivity, half-life, X-ray tube construction, focal spot, anode/cathode, generators and exposure timers. Understand kVp, mA and exposure time as separate controls, rather than treating them as interchangeable. Study characteristic radiation, bremsstrahlung, the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, attenuation and scatter; the meaning of half-value layer and how filtration/collimation influence the beam. The degree curriculum also covers basic electricity, magnetism, transformers and relevant numerical ideas such as the inverse-square relationship.

7.3.3 Radiographic positioning and projections

Revise AP, PA, lateral and oblique projections and the distinction between patient position and X-ray beam direction. Practise the anatomical landmarks, positioning decisions and image-quality aims for chest, abdomen/KUB, cervical/thoracic/lumbar spine, pelvis/hip, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, knee, ankle and foot. Academic training also covers skull/sinus and selected dental views, mobile bedside radiography and operating-theatre imaging. Where clinically relevant, compare standard and supplemental views and the effect of movement, rotation and poor positioning on image interpretation.

7.3.4 X-ray equipment, image formation and quality control

Review fixed/rotating anode tubes, beam restriction and collimators, grids and grid cut-off, exposure control, intensifying screens and cassettes, film processing and darkroom fundamentals where included in the degree. Distinguish Computed Radiography (CR) from Digital Radiography (DR), and revise spatial resolution, contrast, noise, artefacts and the effect of exposure/positioning on image quality. Focus on what a radiographer can recognise, prevent or report when image quality is inadequate. The university course includes equipment quality-assurance concepts; it does not follow that HPRCA has allotted a fixed number of questions to this area.

7.3.5 CT, MRI and other imaging modalities

As an educational foundation, cover CT image acquisition, cross-sectional planes, detectors, basic reconstruction concepts, CT artefacts and dose-awareness; MRI principles, magnets, coils, elementary pulse-sequence ideas and key MRI safety differences; principles and applications of ultrasound, mammography, fluoroscopy, digital subtraction angiography and DEXA. Compare which imaging techniques use ionising radiation and which do not. The University syllabus includes these topics, but the vacancy notice does not confirm that every modality will be tested or at what depth.

7.3.6 Radiation protection, safety and patient care

Revise ALARA, the practical effects of time, distance and shielding, exposure of workers and the public, personal monitoring/dosimeters, radiation quantities/units and protection during radiography and CT. Understand safe working practices for pregnant patients and children at a conceptual level, along with patient identification, preparation, positioning, communication, privacy, infection control and handling a patient who needs assistance. Where your degree syllabus includes contrast studies, review indications, preparation and basic precautions rather than inventing separate eligibility requirements for this recruitment.

7.3.7 Radiotherapy components, if present in your qualifying degree

Accepted degree routes include titles involving Radiodiagnosis and Radiotherapy. Such graduates should revise the radiotherapy principles included in their actual course—for example treatment apparatus, simulation, planning, shielding, patient setup and radiation effects. This is relevant academic background, not an HPRCA declaration that therapeutic-radiology questions will carry a specified share of the 120-mark test.

How to use this topic map: Start with the exact transcript and syllabus of the qualifying B.Sc./Bachelor programme; make a short glossary of anatomy, equipment and radiation units; revise practical procedures and safety concepts; then practise degree-level objective questions. Check the official Radiographer post-code syllabus when available and update the study plan accordingly. A topic's appearance in university coursework must never be confused with an HPRCA-issued examination blueprint.

7.4 Preparing each general-knowledge component without invented section weights

• Himachal Pradesh GK: Revise the state's districts and physical geography, rivers, mountain regions, important wildlife and protected areas, major cultural and historical facts, administrative institutions and major public initiatives. These are sensible revision themes within HP GK, not an official district-wise topic list.
• Current Affairs: Keep a dated record of major national and Himachal Pradesh developments, public health and scientific developments, important institutions and notable government announcements. The notice does not prescribe a start month for current affairs.
• Everyday Science: Build clear conceptual understanding of basic biology, human health, physics, chemistry, measurements, electricity, light and common scientific processes at general level. Do not mistake this general area for the professional radiography syllabus.
• Logical Reasoning: Practise classification, series, analogy, simple coding/decoding, directions, relationships and clear interpretation of short logical statements as general practice examples; the notice does not separately enumerate these subtopics.
• Social Science: Revise basic history, geography, civics and economic/social concepts at ordinary school level. The notice does not allocate individual marks to these components.
• General English (Matric level): Revise core grammar, sentence correction, vocabulary, basic comprehension and correct use of common words.
• General Hindi (Matric level): Revise common व्याकरण, वाक्य-शुद्धि, शब्दार्थ, पर्यायवाची/विलोम and short passages at school level.

The professional material should come from recognised radiography/imaging degree content; general practice should remain proportionate to the officially confirmed syllabus rather than coaching-centre speculation. No official percentage split between technical and general questions has been published in this notice.

7.5 Minimum qualifying marks: calculate them correctly

The recruitment notification sets two explicit qualifying thresholds for the written screening examination:

📊 Minimum qualifying marks in the 120-mark test

Qualifying is not the same as selection. Scoring 54 or 48 (as applicable) meets the stated minimum, but competition, the number of available seats, category rules, merit order and eligibility verification can still affect the outcome. This notification does not publish a final selection cutoff or a separate EWS-specific qualifying percentage; do not invent one.

Can these minimum percentages be reduced?

Only under the stated condition: if the number of candidates attaining the prescribed minimum percentage is fewer than the advertised posts, HPRCA may, for reasons recorded in writing, relax the qualifying percentage by up to five percentage points. This would correspond mathematically to 40% = 48 marks for General and 35% = 42 marks for the named SC/ST/OBC/WFF groups if the full five-point relaxation were actually exercised. It is discretionary and has not been declared granted for this recruitment. Applicants should prepare for the original published minimum, not treat 42/120 as a universal pass mark.

7.6 If CBT is held in multiple shifts: Z-score normalisation

A multi-shift CBT can produce different score distributions because question sets and shifts vary. Advertisement 15/2026 says HPRCA will use the Z-score / Mean and Standard Deviation Method to normalise marks if a CBT takes place in more than one shift. The method evaluates a candidate's raw score relative to the average and spread of scores in that shift and scales it to the notified reference shift. In the published approach, the reference is the shift with the highest average score.

The formula described in the advertisement is:

Normalised score = (Reference-shift standard deviation / Candidate-shift standard deviation) × (Candidate raw score − Candidate-shift average) + Reference-shift average

The raw marks shown immediately after an exam need not equal the final normalised marks used for inter-shift comparison. HPRCA also describes balancing question subjects, difficulty and candidate distribution across shifts; an exam centre or time-slot preference is not an assured allotment. If the test is a single shift or is run in a different announced mode, do not automatically assume normalisation will be necessary. No shift count or exact examination dates are published in this notice.

7.7 Examination entry, candidate identity and permitted materials

An application and eligibility claim remain provisional until verified by the Commission. Before the examination, follow the actual admit-card instructions for the date, reporting time, photo-ID requirement, exam centre, permitted articles and any special assistance procedures. The vacancy notice explains that an admit card, when issued, is to be obtained through the candidate's official application details. It does not announce an admit-card release date for Post Code 26061.

If a candidate requires a scribe/writing assistance under the applicable PwBD provisions, the advertisement describes advance communication and verification requirements; do not wait until the examination gate to make the request. Misrepresentation, impersonation, unauthorised devices, prohibited communication and other examination misconduct can trigger disqualification under the published rules. It is safer to follow the actual examination-day notice rather than relying on generic lists of allowed stationery or electronic devices.

7.8 After the test: provisional answer key and objections

HPRCA's stated procedure provides for publication of a provisional answer key for the objective examination. Candidates can submit challenges within the seven-day opportunity specified in the advertisement; the objection fee is ₹200 per question. A challenge should identify the exact question and proposed answer and contain reliable supporting evidence where required by the published objection instructions. Expert consideration can lead to revision before the final key or result.

Do not confuse these with two different payments: the ₹800 application amount (₹100 examination fee plus ₹700 processing) is paid while applying, while ₹200 per challenged question is relevant only if an answer-key objection facility is opened after the examination. The advertisement does not give the date of the provisional key, a guaranteed result date, or an advance answer-key link for this post. No answer key, score sheet or result should be described as already released for this recruitment merely because older HPRCA Radiographer exams had separate notices.

7.9 From test score to merit list, documents and department allocation

The examination is one stage of the recruitment. A candidate may meet the written minimum and still fail final eligibility verification or fall below the competitive merit position. The published recruitment process provides for consideration of examination performance, applicable category rules and later verification of originals before a recommendation is made.

Candidates called for verification should be prepared to substantiate 10+2 Science, one accepted B.Sc./Bachelor radiography or imaging degree, and registration with the HP Para Medical Council/State Allied Health Care Council, Himachal Pradesh. Keep matriculation/DOB evidence, HP schooling or qualifying bona-fide Himachali exemption, and reservation/relaxation certificates in the prescribed valid form where applicable. The Commission may require candidate preferences for department/district; when two departments share Post Code 26061, recommendation depends on merit, option and availability of vacancies, not simply on writing a preferred department.

A category-wise waiting panel, where prepared, works under the notification's conditions and period. It does not create additional jobs or promise appointment. The appointing authority ultimately handles the offer of appointment and subsequent service formalities. The vacancy notice does not publish a fixed interview date, an additional Radiographer practical test, a district-wise posting list or a joining timetable.

7.10 Study and self-check plan grounded in the advertised exam

First reading: Compare the officially notified general-topic scope with your qualifying degree syllabus. Record which degree units cover X-ray physics, patient positioning, radiation protection, equipment and image quality. Make a concise notebook of formulae, abbreviations, anatomical landmarks and imaging safety principles.

Second reading: Work through unit-level objective questions, checking why wrong options are wrong. Revise Matric-level English/Hindi separately and build regular short practice sets for HP GK, current affairs, science and reasoning. Keep any example practice allocation clearly separate from the Commission's not-yet-stated technical/general question split.

Timed practice: Use a full 120-question / 90-minute practice sitting to assess pacing, flag difficult questions and leave a final review interval. The 45-second average is a pacing benchmark, not an official rule. Do not assume there is no penalty for wrong answers: the vacancy notice leaves negative marking unspecified, so actual attempt strategy must follow the admit-card/test instructions when announced.

Final checks before the examination: Re-check the official exam date, centre, allowed identity documents, special-assistance rules, final syllabus and examination instructions. After the test, preserve the details needed to check the provisional key and decide quickly whether an evidence-backed objection is justified during the seven-day window.

7.11 Answers to questions candidates are likely to ask

Is this a separate exam for 19 Health & Family Welfare and 24 Medical Education posts? Both vacancy lines use Radiographer Post Code 26061 in Advertisement 15/2026. HPRCA has not announced two separate post-code examinations in this notice.

Are all 120 questions guaranteed to be technical radiography questions? No. The notice expressly includes general knowledge and other general subjects, without publishing their separate question counts.

Has HPRCA released a radiography chapter-wise marks table? Not within this 11-page notification. The academic study areas above are learning guidance, not an examination section-wise blueprint.

Does a 45% score guarantee selection? No. It is a qualifying threshold for the named general group, distinct from a competitive final merit position and the verification requirements.

Does every candidate get the five-point relaxation? No. The reduction is conditional, discretionary and requires reasons to be recorded by HPRCA.

Will there necessarily be negative marking? The advertisement does not specify a negative-marking rate, so neither a penalty nor a zero-penalty rule can be promised in advance.

Will everyone receive normalised marks? Normalisation is specified for a CBT held in multiple shifts; its applicability depends on actual examination arrangements.

Is the ₹200 answer-key fee an extra mandatory exam charge? No. It applies per disputed question when a provisional-key objection procedure is available, not automatically to every candidate.

Are the exam date, admit card, final answer key, result and document-verification dates fixed? None of these dates is fixed in Advertisement 15/2026. Follow the subsequent announcement for Radiographer Post Code 26061, not an older or unrelated exam.

What should be retained after applying? Keep your completed application, payment receipt, identity and qualification certificates, council-registration evidence and any valid category/domicile proofs. This becomes important if the examination score is followed by a document-verification call.

Authoritative reference: Himachal Pradesh Rajya Chayan Aayog, Advertisement 15/2026, especially its selection/syllabus rules and examination, answer-key and normalisation provisions. For independent academic study, Atal Medical and Research University, Himachal Pradesh publishes a B.Sc. Medical Technology (Radiodiagnosis & Radiotherapy) curriculum; it is not an HPRCA post-code examination syllabus.

8. What happens after the written test? The advertised selection sequence

The document gives several later processes but no dates for them. Candidates can use the following sequence to understand the published procedure without confusing it with an already released schedule.

Stage A — provisional admission and exam entry

Before testing, the Commission may publish lists of provisionally admitted or rejected applicants. The admit card, when made available, must be downloaded online. It will not be sent by post. HPRCA says candidates may have to use their application ID, name and date of birth, and a registered mobile/email OTP, to retrieve it. Receiving an admit card is only provisional acceptance to sit the test, not final confirmation of eligibility. Watch the registered mobile/email and the authority's own recruitment notices; the advertisement does not promise individual postal letters for every later step.

Stage B — written screening and provisional answer key

After the objective test, the Commission provides for publication of a provisional answer key and invites objections for seven days. A challenge costs ₹200 per question, non-refundable. Challenges are to be reviewed by an expert panel before the finalised answer basis is used for results. This rule does not mean that a provisional answer key already exists. Rechecking or re-evaluation of scripts is not ordinarily entertained under the advertised conditions.

Stage C — score normalisation and merit preparation

For multiple CBT shifts, use the published Z-score normalisation. The resulting merit is assessed with applicable qualification and category conditions. The recruitment notice does not announce a Radiographer interview, fixed interview weightage or a separate clinical practical test; candidates should not prepare for a fabricated 70:30 or similar interview formula.

Stage D — original document verification

Shortlisted candidates must produce original certificates and the printed application, with required self-attested copies. Educational eligibility, HP professional registration, age, school-location/bona-fide condition, and reserved-category certificate validity at the relevant dates are checked. A candidate whose application was provisionally accepted can still be rejected for a missing essential qualification, incorrect certificate or false statement. The notice says admitted/rejected status and document requirements will be published through the official authority.

Stage E — department preferences, allocation and recommendations

Where posts of several departments are filled through a common examination, the candidate may be required at verification to give a written order of department/district preferences. Assignment is made under merit-cum-option-cum-availability of post. A preferred department is not assured: an applicant's category, merit position, stated preference and remaining vacancies all matter. The Commission's recommendation goes to the appointing authority, which handles the later offer of appointment and joining requirements.

Stage F — waiting list, where prepared

The advertisement provides for a category-wise waiting panel for one year from the date HPRCA sends its recommendation to the appointing authority. A waiting candidate has no right to appointment except if a selected/recommended candidate does not join while the panel is still operative. For advertised posts numbering between 25 and 50, the stated guideline is 15% with a minimum of seven candidates, rounding fractional numbers up. For a 43-seat common post, this computes to seven under that stated formula, if the relevant total remains 43 and the panel is prepared on that basis. It is not seven additional vacancies, and HPRCA controls the actual category-wise panel and recommendation rules.

9. Three different payments: do not confuse them

The initial ₹800 is not a category-based ₹800/₹400 split in this advertisement; the fee table expressly says all categories. Online payment is through the designated gateway using debit card, credit card or net banking. Amounts are non-refundable. No postal demand draft, cash application fee or offline application mode is offered.

Correction-window discrepancy: the first page says a four-day window after closing of applications; the fee table on page 7 describes a four-day window commencing three days after closure. Therefore no exact correction opening date can be reliably calculated from this notice alone. If you need to correct a form, follow the date when HPRCA actually activates and announces the correction facility; the advertised optional fee is ₹100.

10. Apply accurately: the full eight-step HPRCA sequence

1. Sign Up: Open https://hprca.hp.gov.in/ and create your username/password using the Commission's registration facility. Keep a working mobile number and email because examination, admission and other messages may use these contacts.
2. Complete One Time Registration: Fill personal information, educational qualifications and work experience if applicable. Upload a recent photograph and signature and the supporting documents required in the registration profile. OTR is not the post-specific application.
3. Review the profile: Match the candidate's name, mother's/father's details and date of birth with the Matriculation certificate. Check the exact radiography degree title, qualification date, professional registration and correct reservation category. Profile details may be reused, so an uncorrected mistake can affect later applications too.
4. Apply for Post Code 26061: Once applications open at 10:00 AM on 12 November 2026, choose the notified Radiographer (Job Trainee) vacancy and submit its own Online Recruitment Application. The same post code covers both departments; submitting the same post application repeatedly can cause rejection.
5. Choose preferred exam districts: Select the available examination-district preferences in the application. HPRCA may allot a different centre if capacity or operational conditions require it. These are exam-centre preferences, not the same as later department posting preferences at verification.
6. Confirm all form particulars: Check qualifications, caste/category, schooling/bona-fide exception, council registration, and contact data carefully. A completed but inaccurate form can be rejected even if the examination fee was paid.
7. Pay the ₹800 application fee: Use the official online gateway. Do not assume a saved draft or OTR profile has completed payment.
8. Confirm final submission: Finish before 7 December 2026 at 11:59 PM, keep the completed application, acknowledgement and payment reference, and retain the login details for later notices.

The photograph must be passport-size and not older than one month; photograph and signature uploads should be JPG/JPEG/PNG, maximum 1 MB each as stated on page 5. Follow the actual upload fields for other certificates. No initial application is to be posted, faxed or personally delivered. The downloaded application and original/self-attested certificates are required later when HPRCA calls for documentation.

Common avoidable mistakes

• Paying before checking that the degree and HP council registration meet the actual essential criteria.
• Confusing one-time registration with a successfully submitted application for 26061.
• Selecting the same 26061 post twice merely because 19 and 24 seats appear in two departments.
• Claiming HP OBC-NCL, EWS, BPL or WFF benefits without the correct state-specific certificate valid at both cutoffs.
• Assuming an out-of-state reserved-category certificate grants an HP-reserved seat.
• Missing the school-location rule or assuming it applies even to someone with valid bona-fide Himachali status.
• Entering an incorrect date of birth, incomplete degree name or unsupported experience claim.
• Waiting for an admit card in the post rather than downloading it from the Commission when available.
• Taking a four-day correction facility as permission to submit the main application after 7 December.

11. Documents to prepare before applying and for later verification

The published checklist on page 10 and application instructions on pages 5–7 should be read together. Prepare each document appropriate to your own eligibility claim:

For regular Government employees, the notice requires informing the Head of Office/Department in writing and addresses employer objection or NOC requirements. For contract/casual/adhoc/daily-wage/work-charged/Job Trainee/Trainee employees, the general rules state that a separate employer NOC is not needed in the same way. Do not treat the two groups as identical.

12. PwBD candidates: request the writing assistance in advance

An eligible PwBD/PwD applicant with qualifying functional limitation in writing may seek a scribe/reader, available technological assistance and/or compensatory time under the Commission's specified procedure. The advertisement asks for the prescribed proforma and supporting certificate at least 15 days before the CBT, with required undertaking and prior authorisation. It mentions 20 minutes of compensatory time per complete examination hour, calculated on a pro-rata basis for the duration of the examination, subject to approval. For a 90-minute paper, that rate works arithmetically to 30 minutes, if the full entitlement applies and approval is granted. It is not automatically available merely by selecting a PwBD category in the form.

The required authorisation must be brought to the examination centre. The notice says last-minute requests at the centre are not entertained, and the provision may be monitored under CCTV. Candidates who may need assistance should plan the application well before the examination announcement.

13. Provisional results, final recommendations and conduct rules

Being allowed to sit the CBT does not establish that a candidate meets age, qualification or certificate conditions. A provisional admit card, provisional key, provisional merit position or documentation call is not a final appointment. During verification HPRCA can examine originals, issue admit/reject information and send selected candidates' recommendations to the appointing departments. The appointing authority handles appointment offers, joining and the practical terms under the Job Trainee scheme.

The notification prohibits impersonation, forged records, suppression of facts, exam impersonation, unauthorised electronic devices or communications, unfair examination means and improper influence. It provides for disqualification, debarment and other action. Candidates called for documentation must also give the prescribed declaration of criminal cases/FIRs and their current status; failing to disclose a case can itself be material. The advertisement's general conditions also mention situations involving previous service dismissal, disqualification, marital status under applicable rules and undischarged insolvency. Fill the declarations truthfully rather than guessing which matter may be overlooked.

14. Applicant questions answered from this exact advertisement

Q. Are there two separate Radiographer recruitments? No. The original table uses one post code 26061 and two departmental distributions of 19 and 24, totalling 43.

Q. Can I apply with 12th Science and a Diploma in Radiography only? The essential education specifies 10+2 Science and one of the listed recognised radiography/imaging bachelor's degrees, together with HP professional registration. A diploma alone is not advertised as a replacement for the bachelor's degree.

Q. Is HP professional registration optional if my university is recognised? No. The council registration appears as a separate must-be-registered condition.

Q. Can a bona-fide Himachali who studied outside HP apply? The advertisement explicitly exempts bona-fide Himachalis from the HP school-location condition, but all other essential criteria still apply.

Q. Can I claim an HP OBC or EWS reserved seat with a certificate issued in another state? No automatic HP reservation benefit is granted; the recruitment's HP state-category rules and evidence govern these posts.

Q. Will everybody get a five-year age relaxation? No. The relaxation applies only to the eligible groups and HP Government rules specifically cited.

Q. Is ₹18,000 the regular Radiographer pay-matrix salary? No. It is the fixed consolidated amount for Job Trainee engagement in this advertisement.

Q. Is the written paper 120 marks, and is there an interview? The published screening test is 120 objective questions/marks in 90 minutes. A separate scored interview for this Radiographer vacancy is not announced in this notice.

Q. What is the negative marking? Advertisement 15/2026 does not specify a negative-marking deduction. Read the eventual examination instructions instead of assuming zero or one-third marks.

Q. Does HPRCA send an admit card by post? No. When issued, it is to be downloaded through the official process; the exam/admit-card dates are not yet given.

Q. Is ₹800 refunded if I am ineligible? The published examination and processing fee is non-refundable.

Q. Can a later correction window save an application not submitted by 7 December? The correction facility concerns changes to an already submitted ORA. It is not an extension of the initial application deadline.

Q. Do I choose my hospital before applying? The advertisement gives no hospital-wise choices. It explains that common-exam department/district posting preferences may be sought at document verification, with allotment based on merit, preference and available seats.

Q. Can I rely on a predicted exam or result date? No. This notification announces neither a test date nor an admit-card, answer-key, interview or final-result date. Follow subsequent official Commission notices for confirmed dates.

Q. What happens if I reach the waiting list? A category-wise waiting panel can operate under the published one-year recommendation rule; merely being on it gives no immediate appointment entitlement. A vacancy can arise for panel consideration if an originally selected candidate does not join while that panel remains valid.

15. Contact and last application check

Official application and later notifications: https://hprca.hp.gov.in/

HPRCA facilitation counter: 01972-222204, and hp-rca@hp.gov.in, working days 10:00 AM–5:00 PM as printed in the notice. Candidates needing confirmation of an unusual degree title, category certificate, correction window or upload issue can use these published contacts.

Before submitting, check Post Code 26061, recognised 10+2 Science, exact accepted radiography-related bachelor's degree, HP council registration, school-location/bona-fide evidence, valid HP reservation certificate where relevant, the ₹800 fee, and completion by 7 December 2026 at 11:59 PM. Keep copies of the application and original certificates for the subsequent selection stages.