HPSC HSIIDC Manager Syllabus 2026 — Every Topic Explained

HPSC Senior Manager & Updated: 01 Sep 2026

Syllabus

A 150-mark subjective Subject Knowledge Test of 3 hours in English, worth 87.5% of the final merit, with the interview worth the remaining 12.5%.

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Compiled from the official syllabus · check it against the official link

The paper is subjective, not multiple choice ↑

This is the fact to absorb before anything else on this page. The Haryana Public Service Commission's announcement states plainly that the paper will be subjective type — you write answers, you do not shade bubbles.

That changes preparation completely. Recognising the right option among four is a different skill from producing a derivation, a sketch and a written justification under time. Candidates who prepare from objective question banks alone are practising the wrong exam.

What the Commission announced	Detail
Posts	Senior Manager (IA) — Advertisement No. 8/2026, and Manager (IA) — Advertisement No. 9/2026, in the Haryana State Industrial & Infrastructure Development Corporation
Stage	Subject Knowledge Test, followed by interview / viva-voce
Date announced for the test	27.09.2026
Duration	3 hours
Total marks	150
Type of paper	Subjective
Language of the question paper	English

How the selection actually works — the three rules that decide it ↑

The announcement sets out the selection arithmetic in full, and it is unusually specific. Read these three rules together, because each one can end a candidacy on its own.

Rule	What it means for you
A minimum of 35% marks in the test is required before any candidate is called for interview	There is a hard floor. On 150 marks that is roughly 53 marks. Clear it or the interview does not happen, however strong the rest of your profile.
The number called for interview will be two times the number of advertised posts, including bracketed candidates	Even above 35%, only about twice the posts go through. The floor is the qualifier; the shortlist is the real competition.
The test carries 87.5% weightage and the interview 12.5%; the final merit list adds the two	Seven-eighths of the final merit is decided in the written paper. The interview can adjust your position; it cannot rescue a weak paper.
Attendance at every stage of exam is mandatory	Missing a stage ends the candidature — this is stated explicitly in the announcement.

At a glance

Conducting Body	Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC), Panchkula
Post Name	Senior Manager (IA) - Advt. No. 8/2026; Manager (IA) - Advt. No. 9/2026
Organization	Haryana State Industrial & Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC)
Official Website	https://hpsc.gov.in/
State	Haryana

Structural Engineering — every topic listed ↑

The syllabus covers six branches of civil engineering. Structural Engineering is the first and the longest, running to six entries.

What the syllabus lists	What it covers
Engineering Mechanics	System of forces, free-body diagrams, equilibrium equations; internal forces in structures; friction and its applications; centre of mass; free vibrations of an 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 columns; combined and direct bending stresses.
Structural Analysis	Statically determinate and indeterminate structures by force and energy methods; method of superposition; analysis of trusses, arches, beams, cables and frames; displacement methods — slope deflection and moment distribution; influence lines; stiffness and flexibility methods.
Construction Materials and Management	Materials: structural steel composition, material properties and behaviour; concrete constituents, mix design, short-term and long-term properties. Management: 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 and 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, and beam-column connections; plate girders and trusses; concept of plastic analysis of beams and frames.

Geotechnical Engineering — every topic listed ↑

Two entries, both dense. Foundation Engineering in particular is written out in unusual detail in the official document, which is a signal about how thoroughly it is examined.

What the syllabus lists	What it covers
Soil Mechanics	Three-phase system and phase relationships; index properties; Unified and Indian standard soil classification; permeability and 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 and time rate of consolidation; shear strength, Mohr's circle, effective and total shear strength parameters; stress-strain characteristics of clays and sands; stress paths.
Foundation Engineering	Sub-surface investigation — drilling bore holes, sampling, plate load test, standard penetration and cone penetration tests; earth pressure theories of Rankine and Coulomb; stability of finite and infinite slopes, Bishop's method; stress distribution in soils, Boussinesq's theory, pressure bulbs; shallow foundations — Terzaghi's and Meyerhoff's bearing capacity theories and the effect of the 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, piles under lateral loading, pile group efficiency, negative skin friction.

What the syllabus lists

What it covers

Soil Mechanics

Three-phase system and phase relationships; index properties; Unified and Indian standard soil classification; permeability and 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 and time rate of consolidation; shear strength, Mohr's circle, effective and total shear strength parameters; stress-strain characteristics of clays and sands; stress paths.

Foundation Engineering

Sub-surface investigation — drilling bore holes, sampling, plate load test, standard penetration and cone penetration tests; earth pressure theories of Rankine and Coulomb; stability of finite and infinite slopes, Bishop's method; stress distribution in soils, Boussinesq's theory, pressure bulbs; shallow foundations — Terzaghi's and Meyerhoff's bearing capacity theories and the effect of the 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, piles under lateral loading, pile group efficiency, negative skin friction.

Water Resources Engineering — every topic listed ↑

Four entries running from fluid fundamentals through to irrigation structures.

What the syllabus lists	What it covers
Fluid Mechanics	Properties of fluids; fluid statics; continuity, momentum and energy equations and their applications; potential flow; laminar and turbulent flow; flow in pipes and pipe networks; concept of the 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 and hydrograph analysis; reservoir capacity; flood estimation and routing; surface run-off models; groundwater 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 foundations; cross drainage structures.

Environmental Engineering — every topic listed ↑

Three entries covering water and wastewater, air, and solid waste.

What the syllabus lists	What it covers
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 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 and recycling, energy recovery, treatment and disposal.

Transportation Engineering — every topic listed ↑

Three entries covering the design of the infrastructure, the pavement on it, and the traffic using it.

What the syllabus lists	What it covers
Transportation Infrastructure	Geometric design of highways — cross-sectional elements, sight distances, horizontal and vertical alignments; geometric design of railway track — speed and cant; concept of airport runway length with calculations and corrections; taxiway and exit taxiway design.
Highway Pavements	Highway materials and their 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 and their fundamental relationships; traffic signs; signal design by Webster's method; types of intersections; highway capacity.

Geomatics Engineering — every topic listed ↑

The shortest of the six branches, and for that reason the one most worth finishing completely — the marks per hour of study are high.

What the syllabus lists	What it covers
Surveying	Principles of surveying; errors and their adjustment; maps, scale and coordinate systems; distance and angle measurement; levelling and trigonometric levelling; traversing and triangulation survey; total station; horizontal and vertical curves.
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing	Scale and flying height; basics of remote sensing and GIS.

What the announcement does not say — and we will not invent ↑

The announcement is precise about the pattern and complete about the topics. It is silent on several things candidates want to know, and the honest answer is to name them rather than fill them in.

The number of questions in the paper. Total marks are 150 and the paper is subjective; how those marks are divided is not stated.
Whether there is any internal choice between questions.
How the 150 marks are distributed across the six branches. Nothing in the document weights one branch above another.
Whether the 35% qualifying mark is relaxed for reserved categories.
The exam centre and reporting time.
Any book list — the Commission prescribes a syllabus, not textbooks.

Detail	Where the answer actually is
Question count, internal choice, branch-wise weighting	Not published. Treat all six branches as examinable in full.
Centre, reporting time, admit card	The HPSC website — the announcement fixed the date as 27.09.2026, and any change will be published there, not here.
Category relaxation on the 35% floor	The original advertisements — No. 8/2026 and No. 9/2026 — rather than this announcement.

How to prepare for a subjective paper — a practical order of work ↑

This last section is not from the official document. It is our own advice, and should be read as such.

Write full answers from the start. The single biggest mistake available here is preparing with objective question banks for a paper that asks you to write.
Practise against the clock. Three hours for 150 subjective marks is roughly one mark per minute-and-a-bit, including the time to draw diagrams.
Treat all six branches as examinable. No branch-wise weighting is published, so leaving one out is a gamble on information nobody has.
Finish Geomatics early. It is the shortest branch in the syllabus and the fastest to complete, which banks marks while the longer branches are still in progress.
Give Foundation Engineering the time its length suggests. The Commission wrote that one entry out in far more detail than any other, and detail in a syllabus is usually a signal.
Learn to sketch cleanly and quickly — flow nets, pressure bulbs, hydrographs, stress transformations. In a subjective paper a correct diagram earns marks that a correct sentence does not.
Quote the code where a code governs the answer, particularly for pavement design under IRC codes and for limit state design.
Aim well above 35%, not at it. The floor only qualifies you; the shortlist is twice the posts, and 87.5% of the final merit rides on this one paper.

Important Links

View Syllabus / Notification Check HPSC Official Website

FAQ — Your Questions, Answered

Which body conducts this exam?

Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC), Panchkula

Which post is this for?

Senior Manager (IA) - Advt. No. 8/2026; Manager (IA) - Advt. No. 9/2026

Which organisation is this recruitment for?

Haryana State Industrial & Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC)

What is the official website for this recruitment?

https://hpsc.gov.in/

Official source: Official PDF ↗. Always confirm on the official website before acting on it.