SSC GD Constable Vacancy: 25,487 Posts by Force, State and Gender

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Force-wise vacancy table, men

Appendix A of the vacancy notice gives each force's posts for men by category: Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Unreserved (UR). The notice also says that 10 per cent of posts are earmarked for ex-servicemen (ESM) and are not shown separately, so they sit inside the category numbers. Every row below adds up to its printed total, and the page was built with that check.

Force-wise vacancy table, women

Women are recruited in five of the seven forces. SSB and SSF have no posts for women in this notice. CISF takes 1,460 of the 2,020 posts for women (72.3 per cent, our division), which is a larger share than its 56.0 per cent of the posts for men.

The shape matters more than the headline. A candidate who lists BSF first and CISF seventh is naming forces that offer 616 and 14,595 posts. The 2026 notice (para 14.9) makes it essential to fill all seven force preferences (the notice lists the seven forces as BSF, CISF, CRPF, SSB, ITBP, Assam Rifles and SSF, and each candidate ranks them in his or her own order of priority) and says allocation to forces is by merit in the exam "cum" the preference exercised, subject to the vacancies in the state. Because the number of posts differs so much by force, the order of your preferences decides far less than your rank within your state and category.

2026 against 2025, force by force

The 2025 revised tentative list (as on 21.04.2025) has eight forces because it includes Sepoy in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). The 2026 notice of 1 December 2025 lists seven forces and no NCB posts, although the SSC notices of 19 and 27 April 2026 carry "Sepoy in Narcotics Control Bureau" in the exam title. The vacancy notice does not say how many NCB posts, if any, exist in 2026, so we show none. The comparison is below; the change column is our arithmetic.

Three forces moved the wrong way for anyone who prepared for last year's pattern. BSF fell by 15,755 posts (to 3.8 per cent of 2025), CRPF by 8,869 and CISF by 1,976. SSB roughly doubled from 902 to 1,764 and Assam Rifles is close to flat at 1,706 against 1,865. Women's posts fell from 5,370 to 2,020, about 37.6 per cent of last year's, and BSF's 2,491 posts for women of 2025 became 92. We report the numbers, not the reasons: the vacancy notice gives none, and the forces, not the SSC, set the posts.

State-wise vacancy table

Recruitment to the CAPFs and Assam Rifles is state by state. The Notice (para 1.6) says vacancies in all forces except SSF are filled as per the vacancies available in the states and UTs, with further vacancies earmarked for border-guarding districts and militancy or naxal affected districts, reserved for candidates of those districts. The next table adds the force columns of each state's three area tables (general, naxal/militancy, border) for men and for women. It lists states by total posts. The state rows add up to 25,463; the 23 SSF posts sit in a separate "Any Part of India" row because SSF is filled all-India, and that gives 25,486, one fewer than the printed 25,487, because the male tables sum to 23,466 (23,443 across the states plus the 23 SSF posts) against 23,467 printed in the force table (a one-post difference in the CRPF ST column that we cannot resolve from the notice).

The ten largest states, led by Assam (3,437 posts) and Uttar Pradesh (2,956), hold 69.6% of all posts. Several small states and UTs have almost none: Lakshadweep appears in the tables with zeros, and Andaman & Nicobar has 3 posts, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu 5, Chandigarh 12, Puducherry 13 and Goa 15. Your state is the one on your domicile certificate; the notice (para 3.3) says a candidate who produces a certificate from a different state than the one in the application form is cancelled "forthwith" and may not change it at document verification.

General, naxal-affected and border districts

Each state's posts are split into three pools, and a candidate is first considered against the pool for the district they belong to. Naxal or militancy-affected districts are listed in Annexure XII of the Notice and border guarding districts in Annexure XI. A candidate from a naxal-affected district is considered first for naxal-area vacancies and then for general ones; a candidate from a border district first for border vacancies and then general; a candidate from both first for naxal, then border, then general (para 14.18). Adding the state tables gives the pools below.

How SC, ST, OBC, EWS and ESM posts work

The notice (paras 14.16 and 14.17) is clear on a point many pages blur. A candidate from a reserved category who scores high enough is selected at the unreserved standard, "without relaxed standards", and is not counted against the reserved posts. The 2025 final result shows how often: 188 EWS, 214 SC, 157 ST and 967 OBC women and 2,090 EWS, 1,913 SC, 998 ST and 8,902 OBC men were selected at UR standard. A reserved-category candidate who needs a relaxation, such as the age limit, height or chest relaxation, is counted only against reserved posts. Ex-servicemen are different again: 10 per cent of posts are earmarked for them in each category, and unfilled ESM posts go to non-ESM candidates of the respective category (para 3.2). In 2025, 522 posts for women and 4,840 for men were earmarked for ESM; the final write-up shows 287 ESM men among those recommended and none for women, and does not say why.

Two features stand out in the printed split. ST has 2,091 posts for men and 222 for women, 9.1 per cent of the total, and it is concentrated: CISF has 1,391 of the men's ST posts and Assam Rifles 302. And in CRPF the men's ST line is just 32 posts, against 870 for SC, so ST candidates see very different numbers by force.

Where the 2026 cycle stands on 7 October 2026

The sequence below is taken from SSC notices. The online application ran from 1 to 31 December 2025, with fee payment to 1 January 2026; the correction window, first fixed for 8 to 10 January 2026, was rescheduled to 10 to 13 January 2026 by the notice of 9 January. The computer based exam was scheduled from 23 February 2026, deferred on 17 February "till further notice", then scheduled from 27 April 2026 in four weekly windows; a notice of 22 May moved the 28 May exam to 27 May. The tentative answer key notice of 15 June says the exam ran "from 27.04.2026 to 31.05.2026". SSC's own schedule notice names 30 May as the end of the last window, so we print both dates. The challenge window was 15 to 20 June 2026. We found no result of the 2026 exam on the SSC Results or Notice Board listings on 7 October 2026, and the SSC schedule notice of 1 October 2026 lists JE, SI in Delhi Police and CAPFs, and CHSL, not Constable (GD).