CAPF Vacancy 2025: Category Wise and Post Wise Vacancies

CAPF Vacancy 2025: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) releases the UPSC CAPF vacancies along with the official exam notification. The CAPF notification 2025 will be released on March 5, 2025. The CAPF exam 2025 is scheduled to be conducted on August 3, 2025. The vacancy list for CAPF 2025 session will be released along with the notification. 

The CAPF vacancy list is released by UPSC for filling vacant seats in Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). The vacancies are subject to the discretion of concerned authorities and may change every year. The number of vacancies listed in the notification is subject to change. 

CAPF Vacancy 2025

The Union Public Service Commission will share the details about the CAPF vacancy 2025 on its official website. The vacancies are announced via official notification released by UPSC. At any time during the CAPF selection process, the commission may change the vacancies that are announced. CAPF vacancies for BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, and SSB will be listed separately in the notification.

Meanwhile, candidates can check previous years' vacancies for various posts offered under CAPF exam given below:

CAPF Vacancy 2024

CAPF Vacancy 2023

CAPF Vacancy 2022

CAPF Previous Years’ Vacancy

Here is a list of previous years' CAPF vacancies for armed police forces, according to UPSC CAPF notifications for their respective years: 

CAPF Vacancy Trends

The table for the last few years of CAPF vacancies is provided above. One can infer there is no set pattern for the number of openings announced by UPSC for the CAPF exam from the tables above. The number of vacancies increased by 94 in 2022, but in 2021 there were 50 fewer vacancies than in 2020. While the number of positions increased significantly in both 2019 and 2018.

CAPF Reservation Rules 2025

• For any vacancy that may be fixed by the government, reservations will be made for applicants from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, other Backward Classes, and Economically Weaker Sections categories.
• Candidates will only be qualified to take advantage of the Economically Weaker Section Reservation if they meet the requirements established by the Central Government and are in possession of the necessary eligibility documentation.
• Candidates for the OBC category who are applying for the CAPF (ACs) Exam in 2024 must present an OBC (Non-Creamy Layer) certificate that is based on their income for the Financial Years (FY) 2023–2024, 2022–2023, and 2011–2022.
• Additionally, once a candidate selects a reserved category, no requests to switch to another reserved category will be considered.