Bihar Police Sub-Inspector (Daroga) — BPSSC Advt. No. 05/2025

The Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission advertised 1,799 posts of Police Sub-Inspector in the Home (Police) Department on 23 September 2025 (Advt. No. 05/2025). The post is at Pay Level 6, and the appointing authority is the Deputy Inspector General of Police.

Status (5 November 2026). The recruitment is on hold:

• Mains cancelled. The Main Written Examination held in two shifts on 27 May 2026 was cancelled by a notice dated 23 September 2026. A new date "will be notified separately".
• PET on hold. Before that, on 28 August 2026, BPSSC put the Physical Efficiency Test and document verification on hold "until further orders". This followed a Home Department (Police Branch) letter dated 27 August 2026.
• Not a full cancellation. On 21 September 2026 the commission called social-media claims that the whole recruitment had been cancelled "misleading and baseless".
• Two candidates removed. On 5 November 2026, after an investigation into alleged malpractice in the preliminary exam, the Economic Offences Unit, Bihar recommended action against two candidates, and BPSSC cancelled their candidature. It said any other candidate found involved would face action too.

Timeline from Official Notices

Date	Event
23 Sep 2025	Advt. No. 05/2025 published
26 Sep – 26 Oct 2025	Online application
16 Mar 2026	Preliminary exam result
12 May 2026	Mains admit cards and centre list
27 May 2026	Main Written Examination (two shifts)
19 Jun 2026	Mains result
12 Aug 2026	Notice on PET, e-admit card and document verification
28 Aug 2026	PET and document verification put on hold
21 Sep 2026	Notice rebutting fake news of full cancellation
23 Sep 2026	Mains of 27 May 2026 cancelled; new date to be announced
5 Nov 2026	Candidature of two candidates cancelled after the EOU inquiry

Vacancies (1,799)

Category	Posts	Women (35% horizontal)
Unreserved	850	298
Extremely Backward Class (EBC)	273	96
Backward Class (BC)	222	78
Scheduled Caste	210	74
EWS	180	63
Women of Backward Classes	42	—
Scheduled Tribe	15	5
Transgender	7	—
Total	1,799	614

• Women's reservation: the 35% horizontal reservation is only for women who are original residents of Bihar. It is separate from the 3% reservation for Backward Class women.
• Unfilled women's posts: if not enough eligible women are available, the remaining posts go to men of the same category.
• Freedom fighters' grandchildren: 36 posts are reserved for grandchildren of freedom fighters.

Eligibility

• Nationality: an Indian citizen. Men, women and third-gender candidates can apply.
• Education: graduation from a recognised university, or an equivalent recognised by the State Government, passed by 01.08.2025.
• Age: the minimum is counted as on 01.08.2025; the maximum is counted as on 01.08.2024. Age is taken from the date of birth on the Matric certificate.

Category	Minimum	Maximum
Unreserved men	20	37
Unreserved women	20	40
BC and EBC (men and women)	20	40
SC and ST (men and women), third gender	20	42

• Bihar government employees: 5 years of extra age relaxation after at least three years of regular service.
• Ex-servicemen: 3 years plus their period of defence service, provided their actual age on the cut-off date is not above 57.

Physical Standards

These earn no marks, but a candidate who doesn't meet them is declared unsuccessful.

	Unreserved and BC men	EBC, SC and ST men	Women (all categories)
Height	165 cm	160 cm	155 cm
Chest (unexpanded / expanded)	81 / 86 cm (UR, BC, EBC)	79 / 84 cm (SC, ST)	Not measured
Weight	—	—	Minimum 48 kg

Note that the EBC chest standard is the same as UR and BC (81/86 cm), while its height standard is the same as SC and ST (160 cm). Expansion must be at least 5 cm. Third-gender candidates follow the physical and PET standards for women of the Backward Classes.

Selection Process

Stage 1 — Preliminary Examination

	Detail
Paper	One paper, general knowledge and current affairs
Questions / marks	100 questions, 200 marks
Duration	2 hours
Qualifying	Minimum 30% to be considered for the mains
Shortlist	20 times the vacancies, category-wise, on merit

When the exam runs in more than one shift, marks are normalised by the equi-percentile method.

Stage 2 — Main Examination (two papers)

Paper	Content	Questions / marks	Duration
Paper 1	General Hindi (qualifying, minimum 30%; not counted in merit)	100 / 200	2 hours
Paper 2	General Studies, General Science, Civics, Indian History, Indian Geography, Mathematics and Mental Ability	100 / 200	2 hours

• Negative marking: 0.2 marks are deducted for every wrong answer, in both the prelims and the mains.
• PET shortlist: 6 times the vacancies, category-wise, on mains merit.

Stage 3 — Physical Efficiency Test (qualifying)

Event	Men (all categories)	Women (all categories)
Run	1 mile (1.6 km) in 6 min 30 s	1 km in 6 min
High jump	4 feet	3 feet
Long jump	12 feet	9 feet
Shot put	16 lb shot, 16 feet	12 lb shot, 10 feet

• Run first: a candidate who fails the run cannot take the other events.
• Every event must be cleared separately. The jumps and the shot put allow a maximum of three attempts each.

Final Merit

• Merit list: the final merit list is made category-wise on marks in the main written examination, among those who qualify the PET.
• Ties: decided first by age (the older candidate ranks higher), then by educational qualification, then by the English alphabetical order of names on the Class 10 certificate.
• Minimum marks in the mains for the final list:

Category	Minimum
General	40%
Backward Class	36.5%
Extremely Backward Class	34%
SC, ST and women	32%

Selection is subject to a medical examination and character and antecedent verification.

Fee

Rs 100 for all candidates: men, women and third gender. It was paid online through net banking, cards or UPI. The commission charges nothing else, but bank charges are borne by the candidate.

Related Pages

• Bihar Police Constable 2026, the constable recruitment in Bihar
• BPSC Civil Services 2026 and BPSC TRE 2026
• All Bihar exams and state police recruitments

Sources: BPSSC Advt. No. 05/2025 (23 September 2025) and BPSSC notices dated 28 August, 21 September, 23 September and 5 November 2026, plus the notice list on bpssc.bihar.gov.in.