A.P. Vidyut Recruitment Exam for AEE posts records 80.40% attendance

The Andhra Pradesh Vidyut Recruitment Exam–2026 conducted on five consecutive days, starting August 23, to fill 629 Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) posts in the State power utilities, concluded on Thursday.

The examinations were held without irregularities due to close monitoring and a host of measures taken to prevent fraud.

The Computer-Based Tests (CBT) were held under strict security measures at 94 centres in Andhra Pradesh (81) and other States (13). Of the total 1,05,566 applicants, 84,905 wrote the examinations, AP-Transco Joint Managing Director (HR & Administration) G. Surya Sai Praveenchand said.

For the civil engineering branch, 12,301 candidates appeared for the test out of 16,183 applicants and for the mechanical engineering stream, 6,411 candidates attended out of 9,444. Out of 26,237 candidates who applied for telecom/electronics branch, 19,947 attended. The electrical engineering exam had the highest number of applicants at 53,702, of whom 46,244 attended over two days.