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ISRO SDSC SHAR Apprentice Recruitment 2026: 400 Posts, Apply by 26 November

ISRO SDSC SHAR Apprentice Recruitment 2026 is now open, and the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR at Sriharikota is offering 400 apprentice places to graduates, diploma holders, ITI certificate holders and vocational certificate holders from across India. The notification, numbered SDSC SHAR/SCF/P&GA-II/Apprentice/2026 and dated 6 November 2026, invites online applications between 6 November and 26 November 2026. There is no written examination and no interview in this recruitment. Selection will be made through a category wise merit list based on academic marks, followed by document verification. For candidates who have been waiting for a chance to train inside the Indian Space Research Organisation, this is a direct opening, but the window is short, and the application itself has two steps that must be completed in the right order.

The Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR is the main launch centre of ISRO, so an apprenticeship there means training inside a working space establishment rather than a classroom alone. The training lasts for 12 months under the Apprentices Act, 1961, and it carries a monthly stipend that depends on the category of apprenticeship. Candidates should read the opening for what it is. This is training, not a permanent government job, and the notification makes it clear that training gives no claim to a regular, temporary or permanent post at SDSC SHAR, ISRO or the Department of Space afterwards.

At a glance

Organisation	Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, Indian Space Research Organisation
Notification	SDSC SHAR/SCF/P&GA-II/Apprentice/2026, dated 6 November 2026
Total posts	400
Apply dates	6 November to 26 November 2026
How to apply	NATS or NAPS first, then UMANG
Fee	Not stated in the notification
Age limit	No numerical age limit given
Selection	Merit list, then document verification, no exam, no interview
Stipend	Rs 9,600 to Rs 12,300 a month, by category
Training	12 months, Apprentices Act, 1961

What it offers

ISRO SDSC SHAR Apprentice Recruitment 2026: posts and stipend

The 400 places are spread across six categories, and the largest single group is the Trade Apprentice category, with 180 places. The table below gives the full split, together with the monthly stipend for each category. One figure is deliberately left blank, because the notification does not state it, and this article does not guess it.

Category	Posts	Monthly stipend
Engineering Graduate Apprentice	50	Rs 12,300
Non-Engineering Graduate Apprentice	60	Rs 12,300
Technician Apprentice (Diploma)	35	Rs 10,900
Diploma (DCCP)	60	Not stated
Trade Apprentice	180	Rs 9,600
Vocational Apprentice	15	Rs 9,600

The stipend is paid every month during the 12 months of training, and the amount is fixed by category. Engineering and non-engineering graduates receive Rs 12,300 a month, technician apprentices with a diploma receive Rs 10,900 a month, and trade and vocational apprentices receive Rs 9,600 a month. The notification does not state a stipend for the Diploma (DCCP) category, so no figure is given for it here. Candidates should also note that no travel allowance is paid for document verification, and a medical fitness certificate is required at the time of joining.

The value of the opening is the training itself. Twelve months inside a space centre gives a trainee practical work, a stipend, and the name of a national institution on a training record. It does not give a job afterwards. The notification is plain on this point, and any person or website that promises a permanent post at ISRO after this apprenticeship is not describing this recruitment.

Candidates who are still in their final year, or who are waiting for a result, should also be careful. The notification ties eligibility to qualifications already held, and to a pass year of 2022 or later for graduate and diploma candidates, so a result awaited candidate cannot rely on marks that have not yet been awarded.

Who can apply

Only Indian nationals can apply. The eligibility rules are different for each category, and they turn on the qualification held, the marks scored, and the year of passing, so candidates should check their own category before they apply.

For the graduate categories, the bar is a first class pass. An Engineering Graduate Apprentice must hold a B.E. or B.Tech degree in a relevant discipline, with first class marks of at least 60 per cent or a CGPA of 6.32. A Non-Engineering Graduate Apprentice must hold a B.Sc in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Electronics or Computer Science, or a B.Com or B.A. degree, with the same first class bar. In both cases, the candidate must have passed in 2022 or later. A Technician Apprentice must hold a diploma in a relevant discipline, again with first class marks of at least 60 per cent or a CGPA of 6.32, and must also have passed in 2022 or later.

Trade Apprentice places are for candidates who have passed SSLC or SSC and hold an ITI or NTC certificate from NCVT in the relevant trade. Vocational Apprentice places are for candidates who hold a two year vocational certificate recognised by AICTE. Diploma (DCCP) places are for diploma holders, and the notification gives their category separately in its table, but it does not state a stipend for them.

Some candidates cannot apply at all. Anyone who has completed an apprenticeship under the Apprentices Act, or is already undergoing one, is not eligible. Anyone with one year or more of work experience in any organisation is not eligible, and neither is anyone who was terminated or withdrawn from an apprenticeship, or anyone who is still pursuing higher studies. These exclusions are stated in the notification, so a candidate who falls under any of them should not apply.

How to apply

There are two steps, and the order matters. First, a candidate must register on the national apprenticeship portal for their category. Graduate and diploma candidates register on NATS, at nats.education.gov.in, and trade and vocational candidates register on NAPS, at apprenticeship.gov.in. Only after that registration should the candidate apply on UMANG, at web.umang.gov.in, by searching for SDSC SHAR Apprenticeship. An application made only on NATS or NAPS, without the UMANG step, is not complete.

Applications must be submitted between 6 November and 26 November 2026. The official website for the centre is shar.gov.in, and questions about the apprenticeship can be sent to apprenticeship@shar.gov.in. Candidates should keep their certificates, mark sheets and identity proof ready before they start, because the merit list is drawn from academic marks, and every mark claimed will be checked at document verification. No travel allowance is paid for document verification.

What the notification does not say

Several things that candidates usually look for are simply not in the notification, and this article does not fill the gaps. No application fee is prescribed anywhere in the notification, so no fee figure is given here. No numerical age limit is given either, so no minimum or maximum age is stated here, and the age figures that appear on some job portals are not from the notification. The stipend for the Diploma (DCCP) category is not stated. The dates of the merit list and of document verification have not been announced. Candidates should rely only on the official notification and the official portals named above, and should treat any other figure as unverified until the centre itself publishes it.

A warning before you apply

Never pay anyone to apply. No fee is prescribed for this apprenticeship, and no agent, middleman or social media account can arrange a place on the merit list. Anyone who asks for money in exchange for an application, a merit list place, or a document verification slot is running a fraud. Apply only through NATS or NAPS and UMANG, and report any demand for payment to the authorities.