1. Read the advertisement carefully, Before you apply.

2. The candidates should apply online through the official link on or before 25 June 2025.

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 Candidates withdrawn on disciplinary grounds from any other service training establishments are not eligible to appear.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 candidate in any court of law at the time of filing of online application as well as during various stages of examination/ 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 15 of the Indian Coast Guard and during the recruitment process if found the candidature will be cancelled/ debared 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 candidate 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 eligibility 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 Dec 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 future examination of ICG. The decision of the Indian Coast Guard as to the eligibility or otherwise of a candidate for admission to the Computer Based Online examination (Stage-I), Assessment test /PFT /recruitment medical (Stage-II), Document verification/pre-enrolment medicals at INS Chilka (StageIII), verification of original documents (Stage-IV) shall be final and binding on the candidate. Candidates whose candidature 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 the candidates applied in SC/ST category, who are exempted from payment of fee). In case of more number of candidates applying for one examination 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 examination 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 examination. 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 communication 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 recruitment 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 responsible 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 cancellation 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 applicable 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 appear in the written examination as general candidate. This is not permitted on ground of wrong declaration by the candidates in application form and leads to cancellation of the candidature at any stage of recruitment process and even after induction in service.

24. Candidates are strongly advised to apply well in time without waiting for the last date for submission 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.

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 being generated. In that event, every effort will be made to rectify such problem, which may include movement of candidates, delay in examination etc. Conduct of a re-examination is at the absolute discretion of Indian 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 website 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://joinindiancoastguard.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 17 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. No additional documents can be uploaded by the candidate after selecting date & centre for Stage-II. Failure of uploading of documents and selection of date & time within the time promulgated by ICG will lead to cancellation of the candidature 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.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 benefit.

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/commonReasonFor Rejection. In case, if the documents fall within the parameters of “common reasons for rejection” then they are advised not to apply in response to this advertisement.

35. Candidates are directed in their own interest to submit online applications much before the closing 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 to bring their original documents as uploaded in the online application.

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 is detected.

38. Candidates will be provided with the option of print preview of the application before the final submission 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.

39. In addition to point (aq) above, candidates will be provided with edit/correction window for duration 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, Category certificate details etc.” will lead to failure in document verification and the candidature will be cancelled.

40. 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 18 shortlisted 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 account and generation of Permanent Retirement Account Number at Stage-III.

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