PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer Exam Details 2026

The selection process for **PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer** is conducted in the following stages:\n1. **Written Online Examination (CBT)**: Qualifying objective test.\n2. **Skill Test / Physical Test**: (For specific posts like Clerk or Constable).\n3. **Document Verification**: Detailed check of academic qualifications and category certificates.\n4. **Medical Fitness Test**: Standard government medical examination.

The recruitment written exam covers:\n- **General Intelligence & Reasoning**: Verbal and non-verbal reasoning, series, coding-decoding, puzzles.\n- **Quantitative Aptitude**: Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, data interpretation.\n- **General English**: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, error spotting.\n- **General Awareness**: Current affairs, Indian history, geography, polity, and general science.

### Written Exam Scheme\n- **Mode**: Computer Based Test (CBT).\n- **Type**: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs).\n- **Duration**: 120 Minutes.\n- **Negative Marking**: 0.25 marks deducted for each incorrect answer.

Candidates recruited for the **Welfare Officer** post will receive the following pay scale:\n- **Salary Pay Scale**: **₹47,600/month**\n- **Allowances**: Dearness Allowance (DA), House Rent Allowance (HRA), Transport Allowance (TA), and medical benefits.

The candidates who want to appear for the exam should be aged between 25 and 55 years. Thus, it is advised to carefully calculate your age before applying for the PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer 2025 exam. Provided that the condition of the Upper age limit may be relaxed up to 56 years in the case of those ex-Indian Commissioned Officers, who are recipients of gallantry awards of Vir Chakra series that is Param Vir Chakra, Maha Vir Chakra or Vir Chakra.

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To be eligible for recruitment through **PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer**, candidates must meet the following official criteria:\n- **Educational Qualification**: Must possess a **10th Pass** in a relevant field.\n- **Age Limit**: Candidates must be between **18 and 30 years** of age. Standard age relaxations apply for OBC, SC, ST, and PwD categories as per government rules.

Certain examinations and job profiles are suitable for people from a specific field or domain of knowledge. Thus, it is crucial for candidates to have knowledge of the educational qualifications required for the exam before they start their PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer 2025 exam preparations. The candidates MUST possess the requisite qualification.

• Candidates must have passed Punjabi of Matric or its equivalent Standard.
• Provided further that where a ward of Defence Service Personnel, who is a bonafide resident of Punjab State, is appointed by direct appointment, he shall have to pass an examination of Punjabi Language equivalent to Matriculation Standard or he shall have to qualify a test conducted by the Language Wing of the Department of Education of Punjab Government within a period of two years from the date of his appointment.
• Provided further that where a War Hero, who has been discharged from defence services or paramilitary forces on account of disability suffered by him and his widow or dependent member of his family, is appointed under the instructions issued in this behalf by the Government, the person so appointed will not be required to possess afore said knowledge of Punjabi language:

Note: Indian Army, Air Force or Navy Special Certificate of Education will be treated as equivalent to a matriculation certificate.

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For an applicant to be eligible for the PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer Recruitment exam 2025, he/she must be:

• A Citizen of India; or
• A Citizen of Nepal; or
• A Subject of Bhutan; or
• A Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the Ist January 1962, with the
• intention of permanently settling in India; or.
• A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar) Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India;

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) shall be a person in whose favor a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of Punjab in the Department of Home Affairs and Justice.

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According to the Commission, there is no specified limit on the number of attempts allowed to a candidate for this exam. A candidate is eligible to apply for the PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer post until he/she has reached the maximum age limit, irrespective of his/her number of attempts.

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According to the official notification released by the Commission, there is no specific requirement of work experience to be eligible for the PPSC Defence Services Welfare Officer post.

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