With 40 marks in HPCET 2025, getting admission to a government engineering college in Himachal Pradesh will be very difficult, especially in high-demand branches like CSE, IT, or ECE. Government colleges like NIT Hamirpur or JNGEC Sundernagar have higher cutoffs even for state quota students.

You may have a chance in lower-demand branches (Civil, Mechanical) in spot rounds if seats remain vacant.