The Staff Selection Commission issued a corrigendum on 26 October 2026 that revises the examination dates it had announced in its Important Notice of 1 October 2026. Two examinations are affected: the Junior Engineer Examination, 2026 and the Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police and Central Armed Police Forces Examination, 2026.
Most pages reporting this will simply reprint the new dates. Read against the notice it corrects, the change is more specific than that — and in one case it creates a clash the corrigendum itself does not mention.
What actually changed
| Examination | Announced on 1 October | Revised on 26 October |
|---|---|---|
| Junior Engineer Examination, 2026 — Paper-I (CBE) | 2 to 6 November 2026 | 2 to 6 November 2026 and 30 November to 1 December 2026 |
| Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police and CAPFs Examination, 2026 (CBE) | 20 to 28 November 2026 | 23 to 28 November 2026 |
| Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Level Examination, 2026 — Tier-I | 30 November to 31 December 2026 | Not changed |
So, precisely:
- Junior Engineer Paper-I has not been postponed. The original window stands. A second window has been added at the end of November. The Commission has not said which candidates will sit in which window — that will follow from the admission certificate.
- The Sub-Inspector examination lost its first three days. It was to begin on 20 November; it now begins on 23 November. The closing date of 28 November is unchanged, so the same examination is being compressed into a shorter window.
The clash the notice does not mention
The Commission's 1 October notice put CHSL 2026 Tier-I from 30 November to 31 December 2026. The corrigendum does not touch that line. It does, however, add a Junior Engineer window on 30 November and 1 December — inside the CHSL Tier-I period.
A candidate who has applied for both JE 2026 and CHSL 2026 could therefore be called on the same day for both. CHSL Tier-I runs over a month and is scheduled candidate by candidate, so in most cases it will not collide. But if your JE admission certificate puts you in the second window, check your CHSL date carefully as soon as it is issued, and raise it with the Commission immediately rather than on the morning of the examination.
The exam-city notice already told you which window you are in
On 23 October the Commission published the exam-city and admission-certificate notice for JE 2026 Paper-I. Read next to the corrigendum, it is not out of date — it is the document that explains the split. Paragraph 7 lists exactly who sits when: General Engineering in Civil & Structural, Electrical and Mechanical, and IMD Scientific Assistant in Computer Science/IT, Electronics & Telecommunication and Physics, sit from 2 to 6 November. The one post scheduled for 30 November and 1 December is JE (Telecommunication), whose exam-city details go live 8–10 days before that window.
Exam-city details for the 2–6 November papers are already visible through the login module on ssc.gov.in. Treat the admission certificate as the final word on your date — the Commission says it will be available roughly two to three days before each examination date, through the same login.
Two deadlines in that notice expire on 27 October at 11:00 PM
- Own-scribe candidates must map their Scribe OTR by 27 October 2026, 11:00 PM. The Scribe Entry Pass is generated only for candidates who complete the mapping — an unmapped scribe does not get an entry pass.
- Scientific Assistant subject change: candidates who had opted for JE (Telecommunication) and selected Scientific Assistant have been defaulted to Electronics & Telecommunication as their subject. If you want CS/IT or Physics instead, change it in the city-live login by 27 October 2026, 11:00 PM. After that, the subject printed on your admission certificate is the one you sit — no further change is permitted.
Two other points from that same notice are easy to miss:
- Scribe registrations made before 5 November 2025 have been disposed of. Candidates using the "own scribe" facility must register their scribe afresh.
- Scribe registration is now tied to Aadhaar authentication, so the scribe must complete that step before the examination.
Junior Engineer 2026 — what you are sitting for
The Commission published tentative vacancies for JE 2026 on 8 October: 1,699 posts across twenty departments. The single largest block is not a Junior Engineer post at all — it is 462 Scientific Assistant posts in the India Meteorological Department, which are recruited through this examination.
The split below is reproduced exactly as the Commission printed it.
| Department | Post | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Border Roads Organization (male candidates only) | JE (Civil) | 39 | 20 | 118 | 9 | 85 | 271 |
| Border Roads Organization (male candidates only) | JE (E&M) | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 22 |
| Central Water Commission | JE (Mechanical) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Central Water Commission | JE (Civil) | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 29 |
| Central Public Works Department | JE (Electrical) | 15 | 7 | 27 | 10 | 44 | 103 |
| Central Public Works Department | JE (Civil) | 51 | 25 | 92 | 34 | 141 | 343 |
| Central Water & Power Research Station | JE (Civil) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Central Water & Power Research Station | JE (Electrical) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Central Water & Power Research Station | JE (Mechanical) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DGQA-Naval, Ministry of Defence | JE (Electrical) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DGQA-Naval, Ministry of Defence | JE (Mechanical) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Farakka Barrage Project | JE (Civil) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Military Engineer Services | JE (Civil) | 19 | 32 | 33 | 9 | 61 | 154 |
| Military Engineer Services | JE (E&M) | 16 | 26 | 38 | 11 | 70 | 161 |
| Central Institute of Coastal Engineering for Fishery | JE (Civil) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships | JE (Civil) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships | JE (Electrical) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Department of Telecommunications | JE (Telecom) | 10 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 30 | 69 |
| India Meteorological Department | Scientific Assistant | 76 | 11 | 99 | 45 | 231 | 462 |
| Brahmaputra Board | JE (Civil) | 8 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 21 | 56 |
| Total | — | 245 | 140 | 462 | 134 | 718 | 1699 |
Reserved for persons with benchmark disabilities, within the figures above: 32 posts for orthopaedic disability, 14 for hearing impairment, 1 for visual impairment and 13 under "others". These are tentative and the Commission revises them until the result stage.
Sub-Inspector 2026 — what you are sitting for
Applications for this examination closed on 30 September 2026 and the correction window closed on 10 October 2026. Nothing in the 26 October corrigendum reopens either. The notice of 10 September 2026 carries 1,871 tentative vacancies in total.
| Post | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Sub-Inspector (Executive) in Delhi Police — Male | 205 |
| Sub-Inspector (Executive) in Delhi Police — Female | 112 |
| Sub-Inspector (GD) in CAPFs | 1,320 |
| Sub-Inspector (Fire) in CISF — Male | 234 |
| Total | 1,871 |
The CAPF share breaks down by force as follows.
| Force | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRPF | 225 | 29 | 254 |
| BSF | 435 | 22 | 457 |
| ITBP | 159 | 28 | 187 |
| CISF | 200 | 50 | 250 |
| SSB | 154 | 18 | 172 |
| Total | 1173 | 147 | 1320 |
Of the 205 Delhi Police male posts, 184 are open and 21 are earmarked for ex-servicemen. The female vacancies carry no ex-servicemen reservation. The Sub-Inspector (Fire) posts in CISF are male-only, and the age limit for them is 18 to 30 years against 20 to 25 for the other posts, reckoned as on 1 August 2026.
What to do now
- Do not act on the 2–6 November dates alone if you are a JE candidate. Wait for the admission certificate, which is the only document that tells you your actual date.
- If you applied for both JE 2026 and CHSL 2026, note 30 November and 1 December as dates to check twice.
- Sub-Inspector candidates: your examination now starts on 23 November, not 20 November. If you had booked travel for the earlier dates, change it.
- "Own scribe" candidates: re-register your scribe and complete the Aadhaar authentication before the examination, regardless of when you registered previously.
Other SSC updates this month
- SSC GD Constable 2026 result — 1,97,408 shortlisted for PET/PST, with the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana cut-offs
- SSC CHSL 2025 final result — 3,515 selected, with the cut-off for all 56 post codes
- SSC Exam Calendar 2026-27 — every notification and exam date in one table, updated for this corrigendum
- SSC GD Constable 2027 notification status — overdue since September 2026
Official documents
Every figure above comes from the Commission's own notices. We host copies so the links do not break when the Commission rotates its notice board, but they are byte-for-byte the files published on ssc.gov.in.
- Corrigendum revising the examination dates — 26 October 2026 (PDF)
- Important Notice, schedule of examinations — 1 October 2026 (PDF)
- Junior Engineer Examination 2026, tentative vacancies — 8 October 2026 (PDF)
- Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police and CAPFs Examination 2026, notice — 10 September 2026 (PDF, 69 pages)
- Staff Selection Commission — official website