Technical Assistant – Department of Agriculture of Central Province Job Vacancies 2026

Department of Agriculture of Central Province invites applications for the post of Technical Assistant. You can apply to it before closing date as per the following details. Closing date and other job details are given below.

• Open Competitive Examination for recruitment of officers in Grade III of Technical Assistant (Agriculture Extension) in the service category of Management Assistant Technical Segment 03 (MT-1-2025) to Provincial Department of Agriculture of Central Province 2026

Educational Qualifications :

• Shall have passed G.C.E (O/L) Examination in six (06) subjects, including Language or Literature, Mathematics and Science, in not more two sittings.

Professional Qualifications :

• Shall have possessed level 05 of National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) relevant to the field of employment, in terms of P.A. Circular No. 01/2012
• any other qualifications recognized by the Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission as being equivalent to the technological qualifications.

Experiences :

• Irrelevant

Other Qualifications :

• Shall be of excellent moral character
• Shall be a citizen of Sri Lanka
• Shall possess a continuous permanent residence of not less than three (03) years within Central Province immediately preceding the closing date of applications (13.02.2026).
  (Applicants who have married a person holding more than three (03) years of permanent residence within Central Province will be considered for the recruitment.
• No member of clergy of any religion shall be permitted to apply for this post.
• The applicant will be deemed to have qualified to appear for the competitive examination only if he/she has fulfilled all the qualifications and age limit relevant to the post as at
  13.02.2026.

Age limit :

• Shall be not less than 18 years and not more than 35 years of age on the closing date of applications (13.02.2026).

Examination Procedure :

• Examination Centre – will be held only in Kandy.
• Candidates shall be bound by the rules and regulations imposed by the Central Provincial Public Service Commission on conducting the examination and issuing examination result.
• Candidates should answer all question papers at the examination in one and the same language.
• Examination will be held in Sinhala, Tamil and English medium. It is not allowed to change the medium of language applied by the candidate subsequently.

Recruitment Procedure :

Recruitment will be made based on the order of merit of marks obtained in the written examination and General interview. The candidates equal to the number of vacancies, based on
their order of merit, will be called for an interview to ascertain their qualifications for recruitments. While filling vacancies on the order of merit, if, at any instance, where there are
more qualified candidates who have secured equal marks than the number of vacancies remaining and there is a service requirement at the relevant time to fill such vacancies, the Central Provincial Public Service Commission may decide to make further selection out of the candidates who have secured equal marks. Relevant selections will be made in terms of part I, paragraph 02 of the Public Service Commission Circular No 01/2024.

Department of Agriculture of Central Province Job Vacancies for 2026

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