ABOUT GD Course

Indian Army GD (General Duty) Recruitment is conducted by the organization Indian Army for the aspirants of General Duty in the Indian Army. For the Indian Army GD Recruitment, general candidates must be between 17.5 to 23 years. The eligible candidates can apply via online mode.

Candidates who aspire to be in the Indian Army GD must fulfill the eligibility criteria of educational qualifications, age limit, nationality, marital status, physical requirements and medical tests. The recruitment exam will be conducted in offline mode through multiple rounds of selection. The Indian Army will release the notifications regarding the recruitment on the official handle in the due course of time.

Army to be eligible for the category of GD. To apply for the Indian Army GD Recruitment exam, the candidates must possess the following educational qualifications:

The candidates must have at least a minimum educational qualification of 10th or matriculation passed with an aggregate of 45% and 33% in all the respective subjects from a recognized board.
The best of the 5 subjects is taken into consideration and an individual must have at least a minimum score of 33 marks out of 100 marks in each subject and a total of 45% in all.

Dates for submission of online applications	27-10-2022 to 30-11-2022
Last date and time for receipt of online applications	30-11-2022 (23:00)
Last date and time for generation of offline Challan	30-11-2022(23:00)
Last date and time for making online fee payment	01-12-2022(23:00)
Last date for payment through Challan (during Working hours of Bank)	01-12-2022
Schedule of Computer Based Examination	January, 2023

Vacancies: The details of vacancies are as follows:

Part-I
Force	Male								Female
	SC		ST	OBC	EWS	UR	Total		SC	ST		OBC	EWS		UR	Total	Grand Total
BSF	1405		917	1980	887	3733	8922		245	163		348	158		661	1575	10497
CISF	8		5	18	9	50	90		0	0		0	0		10	10	100
CRPF	1357		460	1975	878	3710	8380		84	49		118	52		228	531	8911
SSB	204		76	243	54	464	1041		61	6		69	0		107	243	1284
ITBP	188		159	277	110	637	1371		30	22		48	7		135	242	1613
AR	191		313	308	169	716	1697		0	0		0	0		0	0	1697
SSF	24		0	14	8	32	78		8	0		5	2		0	25	103
Total	3377		1930	4815	2115	9342	21579		429	246		580	221		1150	2626	24205
Part-II
Force														GRAND TOTAL
		SC		OBC		EWS		UR			TOTAL
NCB		25		38		23		67			164			164
		Grand Total of Part-I and Part-II												24369

Age Limit: 18-23 years as on 01-01-2023. Candidates should not have been born earlier than 02-01-2000 and later than 01-01-2005 in normal course. However, after relaxation of three (03) years in upper age, the candidate should not have been born earlier than 02-01-1997.

Note: Due to unprecedented ‘Covid Pandemic’, it has been decided by the Government to grant three (03) years age relaxation beyond respective prescribed upper age limit for all categories of the candidates as one-time measure for this recruitment.

Educational Qualifications (As on 01-01-2023):

The candidates must have passed Matriculation or 10th Class Examination from a recognized Board/ University.
Candidates who have not acquired the essential educational qualification as on the stipulated date will not be eligible and need not apply.

Incentive to NCC Certificate Holders: The incentive to ‘NCC Certificate’ holders will be granted at the following scales:

Certificate Category	Incentive/ Bonus marks
NCC ‘C’ Certificate	5% of the maximum marks of the examination
NCC ‘B’ Certificate	3% of the maximum marks of the examination
NCC ‘A’ Certificate	2% of the maximum marks of the examination

Physical Standard Test (PST): Physical Standards for the posts are as follows

Height: Male: 170 cms Female: 157 cms

Few categories of candidates are allowed relaxation in heights mentioned above. Relaxed standard of height for such candidates are as follows:

S.No	Relaxation	Male (Cms)	Female (Cms)
(a)	All candidates belonging to Scheduled Tribes	162.5	150.0
(b)	All Scheduled Tribe candidate of North Eastern States (NE States)	157.0	147.5
(c)	All Scheduled Tribe candidates of Left Wing Extremism affected districts	160.0	147.5
(d)	Candidates falling in the categories of Garhwalis, Kumanonis, Dogras, Marathas and candidates belonging to the States/UTs of Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh	165.0	155.0
(e)	Candidates hailing from the North-Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura	162.5	152.5
(f)	Candiates hailing from Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) comprising of the three Sub-Divisions of Darjeeling District namely Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong and includes the following ”Mouzas” Sub-Division of these Disticts: (1) Lohagarh Tea Garden (2) Lohagarh Forest (3) Rangmohan (4) Barachenga (5) Panighata (6) Sukna Part-I (10) Pantapati Forest-I (11) Mahanadi Forest (12) Champasari Forest (13) SalbariChhatpart-II (14) Sitong Forest (15) Sivoke Hill Forest (16) Sivoke Forest (17) ChhotaChenga (18) Nipania	157.0	152.5