1. Read the advertisement carefully, Before you apply.

2. The candidates should apply online through the official link on or before 10 July 2024.

3. Keep your Documents whole, and at the time of submission check each document carefully.

4. Wherever an Application Fee is required for Submission of an Application, It Must be submitted on time, or else the Application will be rejected.

5. After successful submission of an application, it is required to have a copy of your application form, for further process.

6. For any other information, visit the official site.

General Instructions:

1. Candidates withdrawn on disciplinary grounds from any other service training establishments are not eligible to appear.

2. Candidates should not have been arrested, convicted or have pending criminal case in any court of law. Candidates facing criminal proceedings/facing police investigation post registration of FIR against them are debarred from applying in response to this advertisement.

3. No criminal case or police investigation after lodging of FIR should be pending against the can didate in any court of law at the time of filing of online application as well as during various stages of ex amination/selection procedure up to Stage IV/joining the training academy. Any candidate included by a criminal court of competent jurisdiction for any offence is ineligible to apply for any post of the Indian Coast Guard and during the recruitment process if found the candidature will be cancelled/debarred for appearing in further recruitment process and from training academy.

4. All original certificates and marksheets produced at the time of Stage II will be returned to can didate post verification. All original certificates and marksheets produced at the time of Stage III will be retained by ICG if cleared Stage III or returned to candidate post verification if declared fail.

5. The candidate's selection pertaining to a particular batch is valid for that batch only. Qualified candidates whose names do not appear in the final merit list cannot claim admission for next batch. These candidates will have to undergo the selection procedure afresh provided that they meet the eligib ility criteria for fresh batch.

6. Applications received by post will not be accepted.

7. E admit card for Stage III will be forwarded only to candidates qualifying Stage II and standing in merit as per vacancies. Such candidates will be required to reach training establishment i.e. INS Chilka at their own expense.

8. No enquiry will be entertained regarding recruitment/enrolment for this batch after 31 Mar 2026.

9. Indiscipline activities including copying/malpractice etc. during the testing procedures will also result in disqualification. The decision of ICG would be final and binding on all candidates with regard to copying/malpractice.

10. Indian Coast Guard takes impersonation very seriously during recruitment process. FIR/criminal proceedings will be initiated against both the applicant and the proxy candidate.

11. No candidate should misbehave in any manner or create disorderly scene in examination premises. Candidate misbehaving in any manner will be debarred from appearing in the current and fu ture examination of ICG. The decision of the Indian Coast Guard as to the eligibility or otherwise of a can didate for admission to the Computer Based examination (Stage I), PFT/assessment & Adaptability test/ initial medical (Stage II), Document verification/Final medicals at INS Chilka (Stage III), verification of original documents (Stage IV) shall be final and binding on the candidate. Candidates whose candid ature was cancelled on account of malpractice/misbehaviour in previous batches are ineligible to apply.

12. The application and original documents will be further scrutinised for eligibility prior to enrolment and may be rejected if found ineligible in any respect at any stage of recruitment and even after induction in service.

13. Candidates from "Open Schools" institutes not recognized by AICTE/COBSE are not eligible.

14. Examination city will be allocated to candidate as per preferences given in application form and who have successfully submitted application by making successful payment (except SC/ST candidates, 14 who are exempted from payment of fee). In case of more number of candidates applying for one exam ination city, Coast Guard reserves the right to allocate to any other examination city which may or may not be in candidate’s preference list.

15. Indian Coast Guard reserves the right to cancel examination at one centre and shift the examin ation to another date and centre.

16. Indian Coast Guard reserves the right to cancel the entire recruitment of this batch at any stage of recruitment process without assigning any reason.

17. Use of Mobile phones and other electronic gadgets of any kind are not permitted during examin ation. Indian Coast Guard considers such possession as adopting unfair means. If any candidate is caught with Mobile, Bluetooth device, any kind of recording/scanning/hearing/capturing equipment etc. during Stage I, II & III then his candidature will be cancelled and immediately action as per law including filling FIR will be initiated.

18. Indian Coast Guard cannot guarantee the safe keeping of any electronic devices. Candidate will not be allowed to go to toilet or leave examination venue/ hall for any reasons after commencement of the written examination and after registration process of biometric.

19. All candidates will be frisked prior entering into examination venue.

20. All candidates are requested to be watchful and immediately bring to notice of invigilator of any suspicious action by any of the candidates.

21. Candidates must have valid e mail ID and mobile no. for successful online registration. The com munication by ICG with candidate will be only through e mail or ICG recruitment website. Candidates are directed to check the ICG website and e mail regularly for any change in recruitment schedule. Failure to regularly check the e mail and ICG recruitment website may lead to non reporting for various recruit ment stages by the candidate and the candidature will be cancelled. No response on the e mail & update as published on ICG recruitment website will lead to cancellation of candidature. ICG will not be respons ible if the candidate fails to regularly check the important recruitment communication through e mail or website on a daily basis.

22. Candidates are to fill the online application form with due care as no changes are allowed in the application after closing date of application. Any false information in online application will lead to cancel lation of candidature. Affidavits duly signed by the candidate accepting their mistake of false information in online application will not be considered at any stages of examination of recruitment process and their candidature will be cancelled.

23. Candidates are directed to fill the category details (SC/ST/OBC (Non Creamy)/EWS) as applic able with due care as no changes are allowed after submission of application. In past, few candidates declaring the category wrongly in application form requested Indian Coast Guard to permit them to ap pear in the written examination as general candidate. This is not permitted on ground of wrong declara tion by the candidates in application form and leads to cancellation of the candidature at any stage of re cruitment process and even after induction in service.

24. Candidates are strongly advised to apply well in time without waiting for the last date for submis sion of online application form. (aa) Failure to report on date and time as mentioned on E admit card for Stage I, II & III will lead to cancellation of candidature.

25. Indian Coast Guard does not assume any responsibility for candidates not being able to submit their applications within the last date or on account of any other reason beyond the control of Indian Coast Guard.

26. The possibility for occurrence of some problems in the administration/technicalities/logistics of the examinations cannot be ruled out completely, which may impact examination and/ or result from be ing generated. In that event, every effort will be made to rectify such problem, which may include move ment of candidates, delay in examination. Conduct of a re examination is at the absolute discretion of In dian Coast Guard/ examination conducting body. Candidates will not have any claim for re examination. Candidates not willing to move or not willing to participate in the delayed process of examination shall be summarily rejected from the process.

27. Please note that corrigendum, if any, issued on the above advertisement, will be published only on the website https://joinindiancoastguard.cdac.in/cgept/ and candidates are to regularly visit the web site for any corrigendum. Indian Coast Guard shall not be accountable if the candidate fails to see the corrigendum issued on the website and does not act accordingly or does not comply with the necessary corrigendum.

28. Candidates are to check the FAQs on recruitment website https://joinindiancoast guard.cdac.in/cgept/faqs. and comply during submission of online application and at various stages of examination.

29. The candidate must remember his mobile number and e mail id entered by him during filling of the online application as the correspondence with the candidate will be through E mail ID or ICG website https://joinindiancoastguard.cdac.in/cgept/ only. Post submitting the application, the candidate will see the e mail id and mobile number only in encrypted form.

30. Uploading of documents/additional documents is restricted upto downloading of E admit card for Stage II. No documents can be uploaded by the candidate after downloading Stage II E admit card. Fail ure of uploading of documents within the time promulgated by ICG will lead to cancellation of the candid ature of candidate.

31. Candidates whose category certificate {SC/ST/OBC(Non creamy layer)/EWS} is expiring before Stage II and Stage III should bring the renewed/Fresh certificate alongwith old certificate at the time of appearing for Stage II and Stage III and failure to bring the old and renewed/fresh certificate will lead to cancellation of the candidature.

32. Candidates will be debarred from the current as well as future examination conducted by ICG in case they fraudulently claim SC/ST/OBC(Non creamy)/EWS status or avail any other non bonafide be nefit.

33. The document verification is carried out at multiple stages of recruitment process even after Stage II. The candidates are directed to check their e mails and login dashboard regularly on daily basis. If the candidate fails to check the updates posted by ICG on login dashboard/E mail, no communication will be held separately and the candidate will be responsible for the same.

34. Candidates are to mandatorily see the common reasons for rejection on ICG website prior filling of the online application https://joinindiancoastguard.cdac.in/cgept/downloads/commonReasonForRe jection. .In case, if the documents fall within the parameters of “common reasons for rejection” then they are directed not to apply in response to this advertisement.

35. Candidates are directed in their own interest to submit online applications much before the clos ing date and not to wait till the last to avoid the possibility of disconnection/inability or failure to login to the ICG website on account of heavy load on the website during nearing/ closing days.

36. The candidates are directed not to lose the original documents due to either theft or negligence as uploaded in the online application. Failure to present the original documents as uploaded in the ap plication even on account of theft or negligence as claimed by the candidate will lead to cancellation of the candidature. No request in this regard will be entertained even if the candidate produces FIR and/or affidavit with photocopies in respect of the said theft of his documents.

37. The date of birth and gender will not be allowed to be changed at any subsequent stage under any circumstances whatsoever and your candidature will be cancelled at any stage wherever any wrong information if detected.

38. Candidates will be provided with the option of print preview of the application before the final sub mission of online application. This feature should be utilized by the candidates to certify whether their application in all aspects (essential details like Name, Date of Birth, Parent’s name, subject wise marks/CGPA (as applicable), validity date of documents, category certificate details etc.) are correct and does not fall for rejection in document verification as per the rules prescribed in the advertisement. This feature can be used any number of times before the final submission of online application.

40. In addition to point (aq) above, candidates will be provided with edit/correction window for dura tion of 02 03 days to edit/correction few fields only in online application post completion of registration. The duration of edit window will be notified to the candidates through scroll on ICG recruitment website and E mail. The candidates are to utilize the edit window when provided to correct mistakes done while filling online application during registration process. Any mismatch/inconsistency/error with information provided in online application form, document uploaded (at online application Stage I and II) and original documents provided for physical verification at Stage II with the documents in respect to “Name, Date of Birth, Parent’s Name, subject wise marks/percentage/CGPA (as applicable), validity of documents, Cat egory certificate details etc.” will lead to failure in document verification and the candidature will be can celled.

41. Candidates are to enter marks of all subjects as per their respective marksheet of Class10th and Class 12th. Entering of incomplete/incorrect marks or entering of marks only 02 or 03 subjects of the marksheet will lead to cancellation of candidature.

42. The candidates possessing Aadhaar Card are to mandatorily upload the Aadhaar Card as first option for identity proof while filing the online application. If, candidate without Aadhaar Card is shortlis ted for further stages of recruitment process, then candidate needs to ensure the possession of Aadhaar Card and mobile number linked with Aadhaar Card as the same is mandatory for opening of bank ac count and generation of Permanent Retirement Account Number at Stage III.

43. ICG being an Armed Force under Ministry of Defence, persons with any kind of disability are not eligible to apply.