UPSC Drug Inspector recruitment cycle
What happens at each stage of the CDSCO Drug Inspector recruitment, in order. The current cycle is Advertisement 07/2026.
Dates
No dates for this cycle are confirmed here yet.
We publish a date only once it has been read off the official UPSC advertisement. We would rather show you nothing than a date you might plan around and find is wrong. Check upsc.gov.in for the authoritative schedule — and in the meantime, the stages below are confirmed and worth planning around.
Notification published
CompletedUPSC publishes the advertisement with the vacancy count, eligibility and pay scale. The current cycle is Advertisement 07/2026 — 186 Drug Inspector posts, CDSCO, Pay Level 8 (Rs 47,600-1,51,100).
25 June 2026(88 days ago)
Online application window
CompletedApplications are submitted through the UPSC Online Recruitment Application portal (upsconline.nic.in). The window closes at 18:00 IST on the last date.
25 June 2026 – 17 July 2026(66 days ago)
Recruitment Test (written)
Objective MCQ paper: 2 hours, 100 marks, one mark per question, minus one-third for each wrong answer, no penalty for questions left blank. English medium only.
Date not yet announced
Written result
Candidates who clear the written stage are shortlisted for the interview.
Date not yet announced
Interview / Personality Test
Conducted by UPSC after the written stage. Confirmed as part of this recruitment in Advertisement 07/2026.
Date not yet announced
Final result and appointment
Appointment is to CDSCO as a Group B Gazetted officer, with a two-year probation period.
Date not yet announced
Eligibility, in brief
A degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or Medicine with specialisation in Clinical Pharmacology or Microbiology. Note that the archived 2014 notification required 18 months of manufacturing or testing experience — Advertisement 07/2026 carries no such experience bar. Always confirm against the current advertisement rather than an older one you may find quoted elsewhere.
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