HPSC Senior Manager & Manager (IA) Syllabus 2026

HPSC Senior Manager Syllabus 2026: Complete Subject-wise Syllabus & Exam Pattern

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Subject-wise Syllabus

1. Structural Engineering

• Engineering Mechanics: System of forces, free-body diagrams, equilibrium equations; internal forces in structures; friction and its applications; centre of mass; free vibrations of undamped SDOF system.
• Solid Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams; simple stress and strain relationships; simple bending theory, flexural and shear stresses, shear centre; uniform torsion; transformation of stress; buckling of column; combined and direct bending stresses.
• Structural Analysis: Statically determinate and indeterminate structures by force/energy methods; method of superposition; analysis of trusses, arches, beams, cables and frames; displacement methods – slope deflection and moment distribution methods; influence lines; stiffness and flexibility methods of structural analysis.
• Construction Materials and Management: Structural steel composition, material properties and behaviour; concrete constituents and mix design; short-term and long-term properties; types of construction projects; project planning and network analysis – PERT and CPM; cost estimation.
• Concrete Structures: Working stress and limit state design concepts; design of beams, slabs, columns; bond and development length; prestressed concrete beams.
• Steel Structures: Working stress and limit state design concepts; design of tension and compression members, beams and beam-columns, column bases; connections – simple and eccentric; beam-column connections; plate girders and trusses; concept of plastic analysis of beams and frames.

2. Geotechnical Engineering

• Soil Mechanics: Three-phase system and phase relationships, index properties; Unified and Indian standard soil classification systems; permeability – one-dimensional flow; seepage through soils – two-dimensional flow, flow nets, uplift pressure, piping; capillarity, seepage force; principle of effective stress and quicksand condition.
• Compaction of Soils: One-dimensional consolidation, time rate of consolidation; shear strength, Mohr's circle, effective and total shear strength parameters; stress-strain characteristics of clays and sand; stress paths.
• Foundation Engineering: Sub-surface investigations – drilling bore holes, sampling, plate load test, standard penetration and cone penetration tests; earth pressure theories – Rankine and Coulomb; stability of slopes – finite and infinite slopes, Bishop's method; stress distribution in soils – Boussinesq's theory, pressure bulbs; shallow foundation – Terzaghi's and Meyerhoff's bearing capacity theories, effect of water table; combined footing and raft foundation; contact pressure, settlement analysis in sands and clays; deep foundations – dynamic and static formulae, axial load capacity of piles in sands and clays, pile load test, pile under lateral loading, pile group efficiency, negative skin friction.

3. Water Resources Engineering

• Fluid Mechanics: Properties of fluids, fluid statics; continuity, momentum and energy equations and their applications; potential flow, laminar and turbulent flow – flow in pipes, pipe networks; concept of boundary layer and its growth; concept of lift and drag.
• Hydraulics: Forces on immersed bodies; flow measurement in channels and pipes; dimensional analysis and hydraulic similitude; channel hydraulics – energy-depth relationships, specific energy, critical flow, hydraulic jump, uniform flow, gradually varied flow and water surface profiles.
• Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, evapo-transpiration, watershed, infiltration, unit hydrographs, hydrograph analysis; reservoir capacity, flood estimation and routing, surface run-off models; ground water hydrology – steady state well hydraulics and aquifers, application of Darcy's law.
• Irrigation: Types of irrigation systems and methods; crop water requirements – duty, delta, evapo-transpiration; gravity dams and spillways; lined and unlined canals; design of weirs on permeable foundation; cross drainage structures.

4. Environmental Engineering

• Water and Waste Water Quality and Treatment: Basics of water quality standards – physical, chemical and biological parameters; water quality index; unit processes and operations; water requirement; water distribution system; drinking water treatment.
• Sewerage System: Sewerage system design, quantity of domestic wastewater, primary and secondary treatment; effluent discharge standards; sludge disposal; reuse of treated sewage for different applications.
• Air Pollution: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts; air pollution control; air quality standards; air quality index and limits.
• Municipal Solid Wastes: Characteristics, generation, collection and transportation of solid wastes; engineered systems for solid waste management (reuse/recycle, energy recovery, treatment and disposal).

5. Transportation Engineering

• Transportation Infrastructure: Geometric design of highways – cross-sectional elements, sight distances, horizontal and vertical alignments.
• Railway Engineering: Geometric design of railway track – speed and cant.
• Airport Engineering: Concept of airport runway length, calculations and corrections; taxiway and exit taxiway design.
• Highway Pavements: Highway materials – desirable properties and tests; desirable properties of bituminous paving mixes; design factors for flexible and rigid pavements; design of flexible and rigid pavement using IRC codes.
• Traffic Engineering: Traffic studies on flow and speed, peak hour factor, accident study, statistical analysis of traffic data; microscopic and macroscopic parameters of traffic flow, fundamental relationships; traffic signs; signal design by Webster's method; types of intersections; highway capacity.

6. Geomatics Engineering

• Surveying: Principles of surveying, errors and their adjustment; maps – scale, coordinate system; distance and angle measurement – leveling and trigonometric leveling; traversing and triangulation survey; total station – horizontal and vertical curves.
• Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Scale, flying height; basics of remote sensing and GIS.

How to Download Syllabus

1. Visit the official HPSC website at https://hpsc.gov.in.
2. Navigate to the Notifications or Syllabus section on the homepage.
3. Locate the advertisement for Senior Manager (IA) – Advt. No. 8/2026 and Manager (IA) – Advt. No. 9/2026 dated 04.08.2026.
4. Click on the link to download the Scheme/Pattern of Exam and detailed syllabus PDF.
5. Save and print the PDF for offline reference and revision.

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