DHHD Recruitment 2026: 18 Posts, Apply 9 to 25 Nov

DHHD Recruitment 2026 is open for 18 contractual health posts in Diamond Harbour Health District, South 24 Parganas. The District Health and Family Welfare Samiti issued the notice as Memo DH&FWS/DHHD/1816/2026-27 on 6 November 2026, and applications run from 9 November on the West Bengal Health portal. The fee is Rs 100 for general candidates and Rs 50 for reserved categories.

Read the dates twice before you start. Registration and fee payment close on 23 November 2026, and the final submission of the form closes at midnight on 25 November 2026. Those are two different deadlines, and the notice gives no grace period for either one.

DHHD Recruitment 2026 at a glance

What each post pays and asks for

Multi-Rehabilitation Worker takes the biggest share of this notice, with 7 of the 18 posts at Rs 18,000 a month. You need a Bachelor degree in Physiotherapy and at least two years of experience working in a hospital. A Master degree in Physiotherapy is desirable, and it earns extra marks in the scoring. The posting can be anywhere in Diamond Harbour Health District.

Block Data Manager is the next biggest group, with 5 posts at Rs 22,000 a month, split across two grants. Two posts sit under the 2022-23 grant at Patharpratima and Mograhat-II blocks, and three sit under the 2023-24 grant at Mograhat-I, Mathurapur-I and Diamond Harbour-I blocks. The requirement is a graduation degree plus at least a one year diploma in computer application from a government registered institution, working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and the internet, and experience in data recording and data analysis: three years in the government sector or five years in the private sector.

Staff Nurse has 2 posts at Rs 25,000 a month, one reserved for ST and one unreserved, at urban health and wellness centres under Diamond Harbour. You need a completed GNM course from an institute recognised by the Indian Nursing Council or the West Bengal Nursing Council, or a completed B.Sc Nursing course, and you must hold registration with the West Bengal Nursing Council.

The Senior Tuberculosis Laboratory Supervisor, or STLS, is a single post at Rs 25,000 a month under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme. It asks for a graduation degree plus a Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology, or a BMLT degree, from a government recognised university.

Two conditions in the notice will catch people out. You need a permanent two wheeler driving licence and you must be able to drive a two wheeler, and you must be well conversant with MS Word and Excel. A year of experience in any National Health Programme helps, but the notice does not require it.

Tuberculosis Health Visitor, or TB HV, is a single post at Rs 18,000 a month at Kakdwip Sub-Divisional Hospital. It asks for a graduation degree in science, at least one completed year of experience working as an MPW, LHV, ANM or health worker, and a certificate course in computer operations of at least two months. Training as an MPW earns extra marks.

Community Health Assistant (Urban) has 2 posts at Rs 13,000 a month, one under NUHM and one under the XV-FC 2021-22 grant. Both posts are for women only. You need an ANM or GNM course from an institute recognised by the Indian Nursing Council, registration with the West Bengal Nursing Council, proficiency in Bengali, and permanent residence in Diamond Harbour Health District itself, not just anywhere in West Bengal.

A nurse comparing this with a permanent post should know the gap. A permanent RRB Nursing Superintendent starts at Rs 44,900 basic, as explained in our nursing superintendent salary guide. This Diamond Harbour post is a contract role at a fixed monthly amount, not a pay scale post. That is the trade, and it is worth knowing before you pay the fee.

The West Bengal conditions come first

Every post in this notice carries the same two conditions, and they knock out more applicants than the qualification does. You must be a permanent resident of West Bengal, and you must be proficient in Bengali. The Community Health Assistant posts add a third condition, permanent residence in Diamond Harbour Health District itself.

Your qualification and your council registration must be complete by the last date of application. That timing is strict. A registration certificate that arrives after the closing date does not count, even if the course itself is finished.

Experience also counts only after you finish the required qualification, up to the last date of application. Experience gained while you were still studying does not count. An appointment letter or pay statement does not count as an experience certificate. The certificate must show the post, the employer, your name, and the dates of joining and leaving, or the notice treats it as invalid.

The notice counts age as on 1 January 2026. The upper limit is 40 years for every post, with a minimum of 21 years except for Staff Nurse, which only states the upper limit. Reserved category candidates get relaxation as per West Bengal government norms. The notice does not fix a number of years for that relaxation, so check the portal if it applies to you.

The notice accepts a caste certificate only from a competent authority of West Bengal, and it allows no SC, ST or OBC claim after you submit the form. Get that certificate in order before you register, because a wrong entry in the form, or a mismatch with your original documents, can cancel the application at any stage, even after selection.

How the marks are worked out

There is no written exam for most of these posts. The notice scores you on your academic record, with proportionate marking and no rounding off beyond two decimal places. Your Class 10 and Class 12 marks count, so old board results still matter here.

For Staff Nurse and Community Health Assistant, the notice scores you entirely on the percentage of marks in the qualifying examination, GNM or B.Sc Nursing for the nurse post and ANM or GNM for the assistant post, out of 100 marks. That makes the merit list a straight contest of course percentages.

Block Data Manager is the post with a test. Class 10 carries 5 marks, Class 12 carries 10, graduation carries 15, and the computer test carries 70 marks, with 50 percent as the qualifying mark. A candidate who clears the computer test on 70 marks and has strong board percentages starts a long way ahead, so the test is where this post is won or lost.

STLS carries 50 marks in total: Class 10 carries 5, Class 12 carries 10, graduation with DMLT or BMLT carries 15, experience carries 10, and a computer test carries 10. TB HV also carries 50, with Class 10 at 5, Class 12 at 10, graduation at 15, MPW training at 5, experience at 10 and a computer test at 5. Experience marks follow the same scale in both, with government experience scoring double the private sector figure for the same years: five years or more in government service earns the full 10, while five years in the private sector earns 5.

Multi-Rehabilitation Worker also carries 50 marks: education carries 35, with Madhyamik at 10, Higher Secondary at 10, BPT at 10 and MPT at 5 extra, experience carries 10 on the same scale, and an interview carries 5. It is the only post in this notice with an interview.

Two dates, not one

This is the part candidates get wrong. Registration and fee payment close on 23 November 2026. The final submission of the form closes two days later, at midnight on 25 November 2026. You cannot pay the fee on the 25th and then submit.

Pay by the 23rd. Fill in the form and submit it by the 25th. The notice gives no grace period for either date, and the listing on the West Bengal Health website shows 25 November as the end date, which is the final submission date, not the fee date.

How to apply

This Diamond Harbour Health District recruitment accepts online applications only, through the West Bengal Health portal at hr.wbhealth.gov.in. Find the entry for the Diamond Harbour contractual recruitment under Memo DH&FWS/DHHD/1816/2026-27. Register with your details, an active email ID and a mobile number, pay the fee online, then log in and fill the form with your personal and educational details.

The form asks for your board and degree marks, excluding additional subjects, and you upload a passport size photograph and your signature. The guide on how to scan a photo and signature at 200 dpi covers the scanning part, and the same care applies here because the committee reads what you upload. The site's photo resizer can bring a scan down to the size the form accepts.

Review everything before the final submission. Keep the printed application form safe, because you will need it at document verification, and keep your registration number, because the notice says the employer is not liable to provide it later. Nothing goes by post. No TA or DA is paid for attending verification.

A similar district notice is already live on this site. DH&FWS Jhargram Recruitment 2026 has 33 posts under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram, with applications closing on 19 November. If you are applying to more than one district, read each notice separately, because the dates, the posts and the scoring are all different.

Sources & verification: District Health and Family Welfare Samiti, Diamond Harbour Health District, Recruitment Notice, Memo No. DH&FWS/DHHD/1816/2026-27, dated 6 November 2026, read 9 November 2026 from the official notification PDF on wbhealth.gov.in, with the 9 November start and the 23 November registration and fee deadline confirmed on the official portal and on hr.wbhealth.gov.in. Every figure in this article comes from that official notice, including the 18 posts, the post wise breakup, the pay, the fee, the age limit and the scoring.