Delhi High Court SPA & PA Recruitment 2026: Complete Guide to 150 Vacancies APPLY FROM 15 Sep 2026

the notification is out but applications haven’t started yet — they open on 15 September 2026 and close on 5 October 2026. What’s confirmed: vacancy count, eligibility, fee, and the full exam scheme. What’s still unannounced: the admit card date and the actual exam date, both of which the notification says will come “via public notice” later.

The High Court of Delhi released the Senior Personal Assistant and Personal Assistant Examination 2026 Vacancy Notice on 2 September 2026, inviting applications for 150 Group ‘B’ posts — 117 Senior Personal Assistant (SPA) and 33 Personal Assistant (PA). These are stenography-heavy roles serving the Court’s judicial officers, and the selection process reflects that directly: shorthand speed and transcription accuracy carry real weight in how the final merit list gets built, more than most candidates expect walking in.

Overview

Vacancy Breakdown

Senior Personal Assistant — 117 Posts

Within this, 7 posts are horizontally reserved for PwBD candidates — 3 for Locomotor Disability/Cerebral Palsy/Dwarfism/Acid Attack Victims, 2 for Autism/Specific Learning Disability/Mental Illness, and 2 for Multiple Disabilities.

Personal Assistant — 33 Posts

Notice something unusual here: the General/UR column for PA shows NIL. If you’re applying under the General category specifically for PA, there’s currently no open UR seat in this round — worth confirming your actual eligible category before you commit to this post over SPA. Of the 33 PA posts, 3 are reserved for PwBD — 2 for Locomotor Disability/Cerebral Palsy/Dwarfism/Acid Attack Victims, and 1 for Autism/SLD/Mental Illness/Multiple Disabilities.

Eligibility Criteria

Qualifications must be held as on the last date of application, 5 October 2026.

The 10 w.p.m. gap between SPA and PA shorthand requirements looks small on paper, but at speeds this high, it typically represents a meaningfully different level of practice and consistency, not a minor stretch goal. If your shorthand currently sits comfortably around 100 w.p.m. with accuracy, SPA’s 110 w.p.m. bar isn’t automatically within reach just because the numbers look close — treat it as a separate target requiring its own dedicated practice runway.

Age Limit

You must be between 18 and 32 years as on 1 January 2026 — meaning your date of birth should fall between 2 January 1994 and 1 January 2008.

Application Fee

Here’s something the notification states plainly and candidates sometimes miss until they’re mid-application: if you want to apply for both SPA and PA, you submit two completely separate applications, each with its own fee. There’s no combined or discounted application covering both posts — meet the eligibility for both and want to maximize your chances, and you’re paying the full fee twice, not once.

Important Dates

Note the gap between the application closing (5 October) and the correction window opening (12 October) — roughly a week where your submitted form sits locked with no way to edit it. Get your details right the first time; the correction window exists for genuine errors, not as a routine second pass.

How to Apply

1. Visit www.delhihighcourt.nic.in and register with a valid email and mobile number, noting your system-generated registration number.
2. Fill in personal, educational, and category details.
3. Upload a scanned colour passport photo (100–200 KB, JPEG), taken within the last 3 months, with no cap, mask, or spectacles, showing three-quarter face coverage.
4. Capture a live photograph through your webcam or mobile camera for verification against the uploaded photo — this step needs working camera access at the point of application, not just a stored photo file.
5. Upload your left-hand thumb impression (50–200 KB, JPEG); right-hand is acceptable only if the left is unavailable.
6. Upload your signature (50–150 KB, JPEG) — signatures written in capital letters are rejected outright.
7. Pay the fee through UPI, Net Banking, Credit or Debit Card.
8. Review everything and generate the Confirmation Page. The application counts as complete only once this page is generated, not at the point of payment.

The live-photograph capture step is worth flagging on its own. Candidates applying from a phone with no functioning front camera, or a desktop with no webcam, will hit a wall here that a typical government application form doesn’t usually present. Sort your device situation out before the window opens rather than discovering the problem on submission day.

Selection Process

Senior Personal Assistant

Personal Assistant

Main Examination pattern (both posts): Essay in 250 words (40 marks), Letter Writing (15 marks), Grammar and Comprehension passage (25 marks), Translation Hindi-to-English (10 marks) and English-to-Hindi (10 marks).

Minimum passing marks in the Main Exam are 50% for General category and 45% for Reserved category, including PwBD.

The One Detail That Changes How You Should Prepare

Here’s the structural point worth sitting with before you build a study plan: the final merit list adds together only Stage-II (Shorthand), Stage-III (Main Exam), and Stage-IV (Interview). Stage-I, the Typing Test, is purely qualifying — clear the 40 w.p.m. bar with under 3% mistakes, and that’s it. Your typing score doesn’t add a single mark toward your final rank.

This matters because a lot of stenography aspirants instinctively over-invest time polishing typing speed well beyond the qualifying threshold, since it’s often the stage that feels most controllable and improvable through repetition. Here, that extra practice time is better spent on shorthand transcription accuracy and Main Exam writing, since those are the stages that actually decide where you land on the merit list. Clear typing comfortably and move on — don’t let it eat into prep time for the stages that carry weight.

There’s also no minimum qualifying mark in the Interview itself, though every candidate — including PwBD candidates — must individually clear every stage. No exemption applies to any category for Typing or Shorthand.

Tie-Breaking Order

1. Marks in Stage-II (Shorthand)
2. Marks in Stage-III (Main Descriptive Exam)
3. Marks in Stage-IV (Interview)
4. Older candidate preferred

A Genuine Point of Tension for PwBD Applicants

This is worth stating clearly rather than glossing over, because it directly affects how PwBD candidates should plan for this specific recruitment. The notification reserves 7 SPA and 3 PA posts for PwBD candidates on a horizontal basis — a meaningful number of seats. But it also states explicitly that, given the nature of the duties involved, no scribe and no compensatory extra time are provided to PwBD candidates at any stage of the examination, including the high-speed Shorthand Test.

This is different from how most competitive government exams in India handle PwBD accommodations, where scribes and extra time are fairly standard provisions. Here, a PwBD candidate with a disability that affects writing speed or dictation-taking capacity faces the same 110 or 100 w.p.m. shorthand bar and the same 45-minute transcription window as every other candidate, with no built-in adjustment. If you’re a PwBD candidate considering this recruitment, this is a detail worth weighing seriously before investing months of preparation, since the reserved seats exist within a testing format that doesn’t flex for the disability categories it’s reserved for.

Documents Required at Examination/Verification

• Two passport-size colour photographs matching your online upload
• Original photo ID (Aadhaar, Driving Licence, Voter ID, PAN, Employer ID, ESM Discharge Book, etc.)
• Date of birth proof (Matriculation/Secondary certificate)
• Educational qualification certificates
• Caste/category certificate and OBC-NCL certificate, where applicable
• Income and Asset Certificate, for EWS candidates
• Disability certificate under the RPwD Act 2016, for PwBD candidates
• No Objection Certificate, for candidates already in government service

What Happens Between Now and the Exam

With applications opening 15 September, the immediate sequence is: apply, use the 12–14 October window only if you spot a genuine error, then wait for the admit card and exam date notice. Neither has been announced yet as of 6 September 2026, and the Court hasn’t given even a tentative window for either — both are explicitly deferred to a future public notice on the official website.

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FAQs

Q1. I qualify for both SPA and PA. Can I apply for both with a single application and fee?
No. The notification requires a separate application and separate fee for each post. Applying for both means paying the full fee twice — there’s no combined or discounted option.

Q2. Does my Typing Test score affect my final rank?
No. Stage-I (Typing) is purely qualifying — you need to clear the minimum speed and accuracy bar, but the marks themselves aren’t added into the final merit calculation. Only Shorthand, Main Exam, and Interview marks count toward your rank.

Q3. Will I get extra time or a scribe as a PwBD candidate?
No. The notification states explicitly that no scribe and no compensatory time are provided to PwBD candidates at any stage, given the nature of the post’s duties — this applies uniformly, with no exemption by disability category.

Q4. Is there negative marking in this exam?
Not in the conventional sense. There’s no separate negative-marking deduction system, but the Shorthand transcription test does deduct marks for mistakes — 4 marks per full mistake and 2 marks per half mistake, up to the permissible limit for each post.

Q5. When will the admit card and exam date be announced?
Not yet. Both remain unannounced as of 6 September 2026; the notification states they’ll be released via a separate public notice on the official website closer to the exam.

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Disclaimer: All dates, vacancy figures, eligibility, fee, and selection process details above are drawn from the High Court of Delhi’s official SPA & PA Examination 2026 Vacancy Notice dated 2 September 2026. No figures are estimated. The admit card and exam date remain unannounced as of 6 September 2026 — check the official source for updates: www.delhihighcourt.nic.in.