BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026 – 660 Posts, Apply Online

• BHEL Recruitment 2026 • BHEL Artisan Vacancy 2026 • BHEL ITI Recruitment 2026 • BHEL Fitter Recruitment 2026 • BHEL Welder Recruitment 2026 • BHEL Artisan Eligibility • BHEL Artisan Salary • BHEL Artisan Exam Pattern B. COMPLETE RECRUITMENT DESCRIPTION BHEL ARTISAN GRADE IV RECRUITMENT 2026 – APPLY ONLINE FOR 660 POSTS Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has announced 660 vacancies for Artisan Grade IV positions under Advertisement No. 01/2026. The recruitment covers seven technical trades, including Fitter, Welder, Turner, Machinist, Electrician, Electronics Mechanic and Foundryman, across nine BHEL manufacturing units in India. The BHEL Artisan Recruitment 2026 is an opportunity for candidates with Class 10, ITI/NTC and National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) qualifications to secure employment in a leading Public Sector Undertaking (PSU). Candidates can apply for the trade and manufacturing unit that match their qualifications and preferences. According to the detailed advertisement, the recruitment is titled Artisan Recruitment – 2027, although it is advertised under Advertisement No. 01/2026. Selected candidates will initially work as Temporary Artisans for one year at a consolidated monthly wage of ₹24,000. After successful completion of the temporary period, they will be regularised as Artisan Grade IV under the company's applicable rules. The online application process started on 21 October 2026, and the last date to apply is 18 November 2026. The Computer-Based Examination (CBE) is tentatively scheduled for 11 December 2026. Candidates should carefully check the trade-wise vacancies, ITI and NAC eligibility requirements, age relaxation, salary, application fee and selection process before submitting their applications. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. BHEL ARTISAN RECRUITMENT 2026 – OVERVIEW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is a Public Sector Undertaking established in 1964. The company operates manufacturing units and provides engineering and manufacturing services across sectors such as power, transportation, defence, renewable energy and industrial equipment. Through this recruitment, BHEL intends to appoint skilled artisans in different manufacturing units across India. The recruitment details are given below: Organisation: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) Advertisement Number: 01/2026 Official Recruitment Title: Artisan Recruitment – 2027 Post Name: Artisan Grade IV Total Vacancies: 660 Number of Trades: 7 Educational Qualification: Class 10 + NTC/ITI + NAC in the relevant trade, subject to the notified alternative qualification routes Job Category: PSU Job Job Location: Across India Application Mode: Online Selection Process: Computer-Based Examination, Document Verification and Skill Test Initial Monthly Wage: ₹24,000 Regular Pay Scale: ₹29,500 – ₹65,000 Application Start Date: 21 October 2026 Last Date to Apply: 18 November 2026 Tentative Examination Date: 11 December 2026 Advertisement Date: October 2026 Official Recruitment Website: https://careers.bhel.in/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. BHEL ARTISAN VACANCY 2026 – TRADE-WISE DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BHEL has announced 660 tentative vacancies across seven technical trades. Candidates must select the trade that matches their prescribed educational and technical qualifications. TRADE-WISE VACANCY DETAILS • Fitter: 278 Posts • Welder: 104 Posts • Machinist: 101 Posts • Electrician: 90 Posts • Turner: 52 Posts • Electronics Mechanic: 23 Posts • Foundryman: 12 Posts TOTAL: 660 POSTS Fitter has the highest number of vacancies, with 278 posts, followed by Welder with 104 posts and Machinist with 101 posts. The vacancy figures are tentative and may change depending on BHEL's actual manpower requirements. CATEGORY-WISE VACANCY DISTRIBUTION The category-wise reservation is distributed among the manufacturing units. Approximate consolidated category distribution based on the unit-wise advertisement: • General (UR): 285 Posts • EWS: 65 Posts • OBC: 162 Posts • SC: 115 Posts • ST: 33 Posts PwBD and Ex-Servicemen reservations are horizontal reservations within the advertised vacancies. The applicable reservation conditions and category-wise unit vacancies should be checked in the official notification. IMPORTANT VACANCY INSTRUCTIONS • Some vacancies are earmarked for dependents of deceased BHEL employees under the company's compassionate consideration policy. • Vacancies not filled under the compassionate consideration category may be filled through open selection. • Candidates can apply for vacancies in only ONE manufacturing unit and ONE trade. • The Computer-Based Examination will be conducted on the same day for the advertised vacancies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. BHEL ARTISAN MANUFACTURING UNITS AND JOB LOCATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BHEL has distributed the 660 Artisan Grade IV vacancies across nine manufacturing units in different states. UNIT-WISE VACANCY DETAILS 1. Boiler Auxiliaries Plant (BAP) Location: Ranipet, Tamil Nadu Total Vacancies: 75 2. Heavy Plates and Vessels Plant (HPVP) Location: Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Total Vacancies: 120 3. Electronics Division (EDN) Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka Total Vacancies: 45 4. Solar Business Division (SBD) Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka Total Vacancies: 30 5. Heavy Electrical Equipment Plant (HEEP) Location: Haridwar, Uttarakhand Total Vacancies: 60 6. Heavy Power Equipment Plant (HPEP) Location: Hyderabad, Telangana Total Vacancies: 60 7. Heavy Electrical Plant (HEP) Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Total Vacancies: 60 8. Transformer Plant (TP) Location: Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh Total Vacancies: 60 9. High Pressure Boiler Plant (HPBP) Location: Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu Total Vacancies: 150 TOTAL VACANCIES: 660 IMPORTANT POSTING CONDITION Candidates must carefully select their preferred manufacturing unit because BHEL requires selected Artisan Grade IV employees to serve at their allocated manufacturing unit for at least 20 years from the date of joining. During the first 20 years, requests for transfer or changes in posting location will not be entertained under the normal transfer conditions specified in the advertisement. Candidates should consider the location carefully before selecting their preferred unit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. BHEL ARTISAN EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Candidates applying for BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026 must possess the required educational and technical qualifications in the relevant trade. The original notification prescribes Class 10, National Trade Certificate (NTC/ITI) and National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) in the respective trade. The qualification requirements are explained below. A. CLASS 10TH QUALIFICATION Candidates must have passed Class 10 from a recognised educational board. B. ITI / NATIONAL TRADE CERTIFICATE Candidates must possess the prescribed National Trade Certificate (NTC/ITI) in the respective trade for which they are applying. C. NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP CERTIFICATE (NAC) Candidates must possess the National Apprenticeship Certificate in the relevant trade, subject to the alternative NAC qualification routes included through the subsequent amendment. MINIMUM QUALIFYING MARKS • General (UR): Minimum 60% marks. • OBC: Minimum 60% marks. • SC: Minimum 55% marks. • ST: Minimum 55% marks. The prescribed percentage applies to the required ITI/NTC and NAC qualifications under the applicable eligibility route. IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION CONDITIONS 1. Only full-time regular courses will be considered. 2. The ITI/NTC and NAC qualifications must be in the relevant trade. 3. Candidates claiming educational equivalence must produce the prescribed supporting certificate. 4. SC/ST/PwBD candidates applying against unreserved vacancies will be considered under the general educational qualification standards without relaxation in minimum qualifying marks. 5. Ex-Servicemen claiming trade equivalence through an Army, Air Force or Naval Institute certificate are subject to the specific exemption from minimum educational percentage requirements stated in the advertisement. IMPORTANT UPDATE – NAC QUALIFICATION AMENDMENT BHEL issued a subsequent amendment on 2 November 2026 expanding the accepted routes for obtaining the National Apprenticeship Certificate. In addition to the originally prescribed qualification, the following routes are also recognised under the amendment: • Class 10 qualification followed by two years of ITI training and one year of Apprenticeship Training, resulting in an NAC. • Class 10 qualification followed by three years of Apprenticeship Training completed directly as a fresher, resulting in an NAC. Candidates qualifying through these alternative routes should follow the amended application instructions for entering their qualification and marks. IMPORTANT UPDATE – ITI/NAC CERTIFICATE CUT-OFF DATE BHEL issued Corrigendum No. 01/2026 on 26 October 2026, revising the date for possessing the required ITI/NAC certificates or mark sheets. The original date of 1 October 2026 has been changed to the date of Document Verification cum Skill Test. Candidates must ensure that the required certificates and mark sheets are available by the revised date. Failure to produce them at the Document Verification cum Skill Test will result in disqualification from further participation in the recruitment process. Candidates should read both amendments before applying. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5. BHEL ARTISAN AGE LIMIT 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The upper age limit for BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026 is 27 years for General and EWS category candidates. The crucial date for calculating the age limit is 1 October 2026. CATEGORY-WISE AGE LIMIT • General (UR): 27 Years • EWS: 27 Years • OBC (Non-Creamy Layer): 30 Years • SC: 32 Years • ST: 32 Years These limits are before additional applicable relaxations. AGE RELAXATION BHEL provides age relaxation to eligible reserved categories and other specified candidates. • SC/ST Candidates: 5 Years • OBC (NCL) Candidates: 3 Years • PwBD Candidates (General): 10 Years • PwBD Candidates (OBC): 13 Years • PwBD Candidates (SC/ST): 15 Years • Ex-Servicemen: As per applicable Government rules. • Eligible Jammu and Kashmir Domicile Candidates: 5 Years. AGE RELAXATION FOR WORK EXPERIENCE Candidates may receive age relaxation of up to 7 years based on relevant work experience. The minimum required relevant work experience for claiming this relaxation is six months. Candidates must submit their experience certificate in the prescribed format available on the BHEL Careers website. MAXIMUM AGE AFTER RELAXATION The maximum permissible age, including all applicable relaxations, must not exceed 56 years as on 1 October 2026. Candidates should check the detailed notification for applicable conditions and supporting documents before claiming age relaxation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6. BHEL ARTISAN SALARY 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Selected candidates will initially be appointed as Temporary Artisans for a period of one year. During this temporary employment period, candidates will receive a consolidated monthly wage of ₹24,000. After successful completion of the one-year temporary period, candidates will be regularised in the company's regular establishment as Artisan Grade IV, subject to applicable BHEL rules. REGULAR PAY SCALE ₹29,500 – ₹65,000 After regularisation, candidates will receive the applicable allowances and benefits according to BHEL company rules. SALARY STRUCTURE Initial Employment: Temporary Artisan Initial Monthly Wage: ₹24,000 Initial Employment Duration: 1 Year Regular Post: Artisan Grade IV Regular Pay Scale: ₹29,500 – ₹65,000 Additional Benefits: Applicable company allowances and benefits. IMPORTANT SALARY INFORMATION The initial ₹24,000 monthly payment is the consolidated wage during the temporary period. The regular pay scale of ₹29,500–₹65,000 applies after successful completion of the temporary period and regularisation under the applicable company rules. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7. BHEL ARTISAN APPLICATION FEE 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Candidates applying for BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026 must pay the applicable examination and processing fees. CATEGORY-WISE APPLICATION FEE General (UR): Examination Fee: ₹600 Processing Fee: ₹400 + GST Total Fee: ₹1,072 EWS: Examination Fee: ₹600 Processing Fee: ₹400 + GST Total Fee: ₹1,072 OBC: Examination Fee: ₹600 Processing Fee: ₹400 + GST Total Fee: ₹1,072 SC: Examination Fee: Exempted Processing Fee: ₹400 + GST Total Fee: ₹472 ST: Examination Fee: Exempted Processing Fee: ₹400 + GST Total Fee: ₹472 PwBD: Examination Fee: Exempted Processing Fee: ₹400 + GST Total Fee: ₹472 Ex-Servicemen: Examination Fee: Exempted Processing Fee: ₹400 + GST Total Fee: ₹472 IMPORTANT PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS • The application and processing fees are non-refundable. • Applicable bank charges may be additional depending on the selected payment method. • Candidates should complete the payment transaction successfully. • Payment confirmation should be retained for future reference. Candidates should verify the payment status before considering their application complete. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8. BHEL ARTISAN SELECTION PROCESS 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The selection process for BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026 consists of two main stages. 1. Computer-Based Examination (CBE) 2. Document Verification and Skill Test Candidates must qualify in both stages to be considered for the final merit list. STAGE 1: COMPUTER-BASED EXAMINATION All eligible candidates must appear for the Computer-Based Examination in their respective trades. The examination will assess the candidate's technical knowledge and skills related to the relevant trade. Candidates will be shortlisted for the Skill Test based on their Computer-Based Examination marks. The normal shortlisting ratio is 1:3 against the available vacancies, according to the respective trade, category and manufacturing unit. In case of a single vacancy in a particular trade and category, a maximum of five candidates may be shortlisted. MINIMUM QUALIFYING MARKS IN CBE • General (UR): 40% • EWS: 40% • OBC (NCL): 30% • SC: 30% • ST: 30% Eligible PwBD and Ex-Servicemen candidates receive the specified relaxation in minimum qualifying marks. Relaxed qualifying thresholds: • General/EWS: 30% • OBC/SC/ST: 22.5% Candidates scoring below the applicable qualifying marks will not proceed to the next selection stage. STAGE 2: DOCUMENT VERIFICATION AND SKILL TEST Candidates shortlisted after the Computer-Based Examination will be called for Document Verification. BHEL will verify the educational qualifications, age, category certificates and other relevant eligibility conditions. After successful document verification, candidates must appear for the Skill Test in their respective trades. The Skill Test is qualifying in nature. Candidates must successfully complete the Skill Test to remain eligible for the final merit list. FINAL MERIT LIST The final merit order will be prepared based on Computer-Based Examination marks among candidates who: • Fulfil the prescribed eligibility conditions. • Successfully complete Document Verification. • Qualify in the Skill Test. The Skill Test does not carry separate merit marks for final ranking. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9. BHEL ARTISAN EXAM PATTERN 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Computer-Based Examination is designed to assess candidates' trade knowledge, engineering calculations and reasoning abilities. The separately published BHEL Artisan examination-pattern information indicates the following structure: EXAMINATION PATTERN Examination Mode: Computer-Based Examination Question Type: Objective Multiple Choice Questions Total Questions: 120 Total Marks: 120 Duration: 90 Minutes Trade-Related Questions: 70 Engineering and Calculations: 30 Reasoning: 20 MARKING SCHEME • Correct Answer: +1 Mark • Incorrect Answer: -0.25 Mark • Negative Marking: Applicable EXAMINATION SUBJECTS 1. TRADE-RELATED QUESTIONS This section evaluates the candidate's technical knowledge in the trade selected for the recruitment. Candidates should prepare the technical subjects covered in their respective ITI or relevant trade training. 2. ENGINEERING AND CALCULATIONS This section focuses on technical calculations and related engineering concepts relevant to the examination. 3. REASONING This section assesses candidates' analytical thinking, logical reasoning and problem-solving abilities. EXAMINATION LANGUAGE According to the recruitment advertisement, the Computer-Based Examination will be trilingual. Candidates will have the option to attempt the examination in: • Hindi • English • Kannada • Telugu • Tamil The applicable options should be checked in the examination instructions and portal. IMPORTANT EXAMINATION INSTRUCTIONS • Candidates must carefully select their examination centre preferences. • Up to five examination centre choices may be provided. • BHEL reserves the right to add or cancel examination centres. • Calculators, smart devices and unauthorised reference materials should not be carried into the examination hall. • Candidates must follow the instructions mentioned in their examination call letter. The exact examination instructions and any updated trade-specific pattern should be checked through the BHEL Careers portal before the examination. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10. BHEL ARTISAN IMPORTANT DATES 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Candidates should keep track of the following recruitment dates. Short Notification Release: 13 October 2026 Detailed Notification: 17 October 2026 Online Application Start Date: 21 October 2026 Application Start Time: 10:00 AM Last Date to Apply Online: 18 November 2026 Application Closing Time: 11:45 PM Corrigendum No. 01/2026: 26 October 2026 Corrigendum No. 02/2026: 2 November 2026 Tentative Computer-Based Examination Date: 11 December 2026 Document Verification Date: Not Announced Skill Test Date: Not Announced Final Result Date: Not Announced IMPORTANT: The Computer-Based Examination date is tentative and may be changed by BHEL. Candidates should regularly check the official recruitment portal for updates. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 11. HOW TO APPLY FOR BHEL ARTISAN RECRUITMENT 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Eligible candidates can submit their applications online through the official BHEL Careers portal. Follow these steps to complete the application process: 1. Visit the official BHEL Careers website: https://careers.bhel.in/ 2. Open the Artisan Recruitment – 2027 section under Advertisement No. 01/2026. 3. Carefully read the detailed recruitment notification and subsequent corrigenda. 4. Check your eligibility for the relevant trade. 5. Select your preferred manufacturing unit from the available nine units. 6. Select the trade for which you fulfil the educational qualification requirements. 7. Complete the online registration form by entering the required personal and communication information. 8. Enter your educational qualifications and relevant trade details. 9. Fill in the applicable category and age-relaxation details. 10. Upload the required documents and photograph according to the application portal instructions. 11. Review all the details carefully before submitting the application. 12. Pay the applicable application and processing fee through the available online payment facility. 13. Submit the application and retain the registration or application acknowledgement. 14. Keep your registered email address active for recruitment-related communication. IMPORTANT APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS • Applications are accepted through online mode only. • Candidates can apply for only ONE manufacturing unit and ONE trade. • The Computer-Based Examination will be conducted on the same day for all advertised vacancies. • The details entered during online registration should be accurate. • The category and other information entered in the application form will be treated as final. • The last submitted application will be considered final in case of multiple submissions by the same applicant. • Candidates currently working in Government Departments, PSUs or Autonomous Bodies should apply through the proper channel or submit an NOC during Document Verification cum Skill Test. • Candidates should keep their registered email ID active for at least one year. • No separate recruitment communication will be sent through conventional post. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR BHEL ARTISAN RECRUITMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Candidates should keep the relevant educational, identity and category documents ready for the online application and subsequent Document Verification. IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS 1. Class 10th certificate and marksheet. 2. National Trade Certificate (NTC/ITI), wherever applicable. 3. National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC). 4. Relevant trade qualification certificates and marksheets. 5. Category certificate, if claiming reservation. 6. OBC Non-Creamy Layer certificate, wherever applicable. 7. EWS Income and Asset Certificate, wherever applicable. 8. PwBD certificate, if claiming disability-related benefits. 9. Relevant work experience certificate, if claiming age relaxation. 10. Ex-Servicemen service and qualification-equivalence documents, wherever applicable. 11. Recent photograph and signature. 12. Valid email address and mobile number. ADDITIONAL DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS OBC (NCL) CANDIDATES: The prescribed OBC (Non-Creamy Layer) certificate should have been issued on or after 1 January 2026. The candidate's caste or community must appear in the Central List of Other Backward Classes. EWS CANDIDATES: The Income and Asset Certificate must be valid for financial year 2026–2027 and based on income and asset verification for financial year 2025–2026. PwBD CANDIDATES: Candidates claiming PwBD reservation must produce the prescribed disability certificate from the competent authority. The minimum benchmark disability requirement is 40%. EX-SERVICEMEN: Candidates claiming trade equivalence should produce the relevant equivalence certificate from the Army, Air Force or Naval Institute. Candidates applying under the Ex-Servicemen category must also submit the prescribed undertaking where applicable. GOVERNMENT AND PSU EMPLOYEES: Candidates currently employed in Central or State Government Departments, Autonomous Bodies or PSUs must apply through the proper channel or submit the required No Objection Certificate at Document Verification cum Skill Test. WORK EXPERIENCE CERTIFICATE: Candidates claiming age relaxation through relevant work experience must submit the prescribed experience certificate available on the BHEL Careers website. BEST APPRENTICE / RUNNER-UP APPRENTICE: Candidates claiming the applicable preference must upload the Certificate of Merit issued by the Directorate General of Employment and Training for the All India Apprentices Competition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 13. IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR BHEL ARTISAN CANDIDATES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Before applying for BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026, candidates should understand the following important conditions. 1. NATIONALITY Candidates must fulfil the nationality conditions applicable to the recruitment and Government of India employment requirements. 2. ONE UNIT AND ONE TRADE A candidate is permitted to apply for vacancies in only one manufacturing unit and one trade. 3. 20-YEAR SERVICE CONDITION Selected Artisan Grade IV employees must serve at their allocated manufacturing unit for at least 20 years from the date of joining. Normal requests for transfer or change in posting location will not be entertained during this period. 4. TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT PERIOD Selected candidates will initially work as Temporary Artisans for one year at a consolidated monthly wage of ₹24,000. 5. REGULARISATION After successful completion of the temporary period, candidates will be regularised under the applicable company rules in the Artisan Grade IV position. 6. MEDICAL FITNESS Selected candidates must undergo a medical examination conducted by the company's authorised medical officer. Appointment will be subject to meeting BHEL's prescribed medical standards. No relaxation in the specified health standards is allowed. 7. DISABILITY CONDITIONS PwBD candidates must provide the prescribed certificate to claim reservation benefits. Candidates should carefully review the disability categories identified as suitable for the advertised Artisan positions. 8. APPLICATION ACCURACY Candidates should ensure that all personal, educational and category details are correct. Incorrect or suppressed information may lead to rejection of candidature, even after appointment. 9. CATEGORY CERTIFICATES Candidates claiming EWS, OBC (NCL), SC, ST or PwBD benefits must produce the relevant certificates in the prescribed Government format. 10. EMPLOYED CANDIDATES Candidates working in Government Departments, PSUs and Autonomous Bodies must follow the prescribed proper-channel or NOC requirements. 11. BEST APPRENTICE PREFERENCE Candidates recognised as Best Apprentice or Runner-up Apprentice in the All India Apprentices Competition may receive the specified preference and pay-related benefits, subject to satisfying the recruitment conditions. 12. EMAIL COMMUNICATION Candidates should keep their registered email address active for at least one year because important recruitment communication will be provided through email. 13. APPLICATION FEE The application and processing fees are non-refundable. Candidates should verify their application and eligibility before completing payment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 14. OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION AND IMPORTANT LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Candidates should use the official BHEL website for the detailed recruitment notification, corrigenda, application form and examination updates. BHEL Official Website: https://www.bhel.com/ BHEL Careers Portal: https://careers.bhel.in/ Detailed Recruitment Notification: Available under Artisan Recruitment – 2027, Advertisement No. 01/2026. Online Application Form: Available through the BHEL Careers portal. Corrigendum No. 01/2026: Qualification certificate cut-off date amendment. Corrigendum No. 02/2026: Additional NAC qualification routes. Examination Pattern: Available through the examination information section of the BHEL Careers portal. Admit Card: Check the BHEL Careers portal. Recruitment Results: Check the BHEL Careers portal. Advertisement Number: 01/2026 Candidates are advised to download and read the latest recruitment notification and corrigenda before submitting their applications. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ C. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q1. How many vacancies are available in BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026? Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has announced 660 tentative Artisan Grade IV vacancies across seven trades: Fitter, Welder, Turner, Machinist, Electrician, Electronics Mechanic and Foundryman. Q2. What is the educational qualification required for BHEL Artisan Recruitment 2026? Candidates generally need Class 10, a National Trade Certificate (NTC/ITI) and a National Apprenticeship Certificate (NAC) in the relevant trade. BHEL's subsequent amendment also recognises specified alternative NAC routes. The prescribed minimum marks are 60% for General and OBC candidates and 55% for SC and ST candidates, subject to the applicable qualification route and notification conditions. Q3. What is the age limit for BHEL Artisan Grade IV Recruitment 2026? The upper age limit is 27 years for General and EWS candidates as on 1 October 2026. OBC (NCL) candidates receive three years of relaxation, while SC/ST candidates receive five years. Additional relaxation is available for eligible PwBD candidates, Ex-Servicemen, Jammu and Kashmir domicile candidates and candidates with relevant work experience. Q4. What is the salary of a BHEL Artisan Grade IV employee? Selected candidates will initially receive ₹24,000 per month as Temporary Artisans for one year. After successful completion of the temporary period and regularisation under company rules, they will receive the regular pay scale of ₹29,500–₹65,000 with applicable allowances. Q5. What is the selection process for BHEL Artisan Recruitment 2026? The selection process consists of a Computer-Based Examination followed by Document Verification and a qualifying Skill Test. Final merit will be prepared based on Computer-Based Examination marks among candidates who fulfil the eligibility conditions and qualify in the Skill Test. Q6. What is the last date to apply for BHEL Artisan Recruitment 2026? The last date to submit the online application is 18 November 2026 at 11:45 PM. Q7. Can candidates apply for more than one manufacturing unit or trade? No. BHEL permits candidates to apply for only one manufacturing unit and one trade under this recruitment. Candidates should carefully review the available vacancies before choosing their preference. Q8. What is the tentative BHEL Artisan examination date? The Computer-Based Examination is tentatively scheduled for 11 December 2026. Candidates should check the official BHEL Careers portal for any change in the examination schedule. Q9. Can a candidate apply if the NAC certificate is not available on 1 October 2026? Yes, the qualification certificate cut-off was revised through Corrigendum No. 01/2026. The required ITI/NAC certificates or marksheets must be available by the date of Document Verification cum Skill Test. Candidates who fail to produce the required documents by that date will not be allowed to continue in the selection process. Q10. Can candidates with NAC obtained through apprenticeship without the usual ITI route apply? BHEL's Corrigendum No. 02/2026 recognises specified alternative routes, including Class 10 followed by a three-year apprenticeship completed directly as a fresher, resulting in an NAC. It also recognises the specified two-year ITI plus one-year apprenticeship route. Candidates must follow the amended qualification and application instructions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━