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At a glance
The facts most likely to change your decision.
- Vacancies
- 327 across eight post codes Advertisement No.01/CGL/PEA/2025 notifies 327 vacancies: Statistical Inspector 26, Library and Information Assistant 25, Agriculture Officer 23, Technical Officer 19, Agriculture Officer (Engineering) 5, Agriculture Officer (Hydrogeology) 5, Upper Division Clerk 197 and Field Supervisor 27. The advertisement states the vacancies are tentative and firm vacancies will be determined in due course; updated figures, if any, are published on the recruitment portal before the examination.
- Education
- Graduate · Postgraduate Post-wise, and only for Indian citizens who are natives or residents of the Union Territory of Puducherry. Examples from the advertisement: a post-graduate degree in Economics, Statistics or Mathematics for Statistical Inspector; a degree plus a degree in Library and Information Science for Library and Information Assistant. Applicants must apply separately for each post whose eligibility they meet.
- Age
- Post-wise maximum age limits are set out in the advertisement — for example 32 years for Statistical Inspector and 30 years for Library and Information Assistant — with category-wise cut-off dates of birth listed in Part-IV, and age relaxation for in-service applicants in feeder or allied cadres. Relaxations and cut-off dates are category-specific.
- Application fee
- Advertisement No.01/CGL/PEA/2025 does not prescribe an application fee; applications are accepted only through the Puducherry online recruitment portal. Use the official payment instructions only.
- Pay
- Level-6 (Group B, Non-Gazetted) for post codes 001/2025 to 006/2025, and Level-4 (Group C) for Upper Division Clerk and Field Supervisor. Gross and in-hand pay vary by posting and allowance.
- Recruitment cycle
- 2025 State · Puducherry
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Vacancies & reservation
What is known, what overlaps and what remains unreported.
Current published count327 across eight post codes
Check source ↗Category table not available here
Check the latest official notice for the post- and category-wise distribution.
How to read reservation: UR, EWS, OBC, SC and ST are vertical categories. PwBD, women, ex-servicemen and similar horizontal reservations can overlap them and must not be added again to the total.
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Complete timeline
One record from notification to final outcome.
- completed
Advertisement No.01/CGL/PEA/2025
16 Nov 2025
- completed
Online application opens
18 Nov 2025, 12:00 noon
- completed
Online application closes
14 Dec 2025, 3:00 PM
- completed
Postponement notice
31 Jul 2026
No.A-12011/114/2026/PEA/73042 - postponed
Written examination (tentatively fixed)
9-12 Aug 2026
Postponed for administrative reasons - tentative
Fresh examination dates
To be announced
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Who can apply?
A readable first check—not a legal eligibility decision.
Basic eligibility paths
- Only applications successfully filed through the Puducherry online recruitment portal are accepted; candidature is provisional at every stage.
- A candidate who applies for more than one post covered by the common examination is later asked to state a preference, and that option is final.
- Applicants who had already applied for post codes 001/2025 to 006/2025 under the earlier notification need not apply again, but may update their category and contact details as announced on the portal.
- Reservation for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities follows DoPT O.M. No.35035/02/2017-Estt(Res) dated 15.01.2018.
Relaxations & certificates
- SC/ST, OBC-NCL, PwBD and ex-servicemen relaxations follow the applicable notification.
- Always check the certificate format and cut-off date in the official notice.
If your degree title, age, domicile or category certificate is unusual, mark yourself “check required” and read the official wording.
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Selection process & syllabus
Stage by stage, without mixing recruitment years.
Selection stages
- 1Online application on the Puducherry recruitment portal
- 2Written competitive examination — Paper-I (common) with Paper-II B for post codes 001-006 and 008, or Paper-II A for the Upper Division Clerk post code 007
- 3Answer key publication and key challenge
- 4Provisional short list of three times the notified vacancies
- 5Certificate verification and final selection
Syllabus snapshot
- The scheme of examination and syllabus are in Annexure-I of Advertisement No.01/CGL/PEA/2025; the Controller of Examinations may revise the syllabus, number of questions, papers, marks, time and weightage before the examination and will notify any change on the portal.
- Negative marking is 0.25 for every wrong answer, and multiple answers count as wrong.
- Weightage: for post codes 001-006 and 008, Paper-I carries 25% and Paper-II B 75%; for post code 007 (Upper Division Clerk), Paper-I and Paper-II A carry equal weightage.
- Minimum qualifying marks in each paper: 30% for UR, 25% for OBC/MBC/EBC/BCM/BT/EWS and 20% for SC/ST/PwBD/XSM.
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Application document checklist
Prepare before the portal gets busy.
Recent passport-size photograph and scanned signature
Government photo ID with the same name used in the application
Education certificates and marksheets
Category, EWS, PwBD or ex-serviceman certificate, if claimed
Domicile or language proof where the notification requires it
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Official links & source record
Go straight to the recruiting body.
noticeNotice postponing the CGL Examination-2025 (31 Jul 2026)noticeAdvertisement No.01/CGL/PEA/2025 (notification)websitePuducherry recruitment news and notificationswebsitePuducherry recruitment portal
- Primary source
- Puducherry Examining Authority — Notice dated 31 Jul 2026 postponing the Combined Graduate Level Examination-2025
- Published / changed
- Advertisement dated 16 Nov 2025; postponement notice dated 31 Jul 2026
- Last checked
- 4 Aug 2026, 21:15 IST
Official notices, corrigenda and recruiting-body pages have final authority. This page is a reading aid.