UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE 2026: Notification, Vacancy, Syllabus, Cut Off, Result

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE (CISF Assistant Commandants (Executive) Limited Departmental Competitive Examination) is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission to recruit for Assistant Commandant (Executive) in the Central Industrial Security Force. The CISF AC (EXE) LDCE 2026 notification declares 20 — General 16, SC 3 and ST 1.

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE selection process

1. Written Examination
2. Physical and Medical standards
3. Interview / Personality Test

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE selection runs through the stages below, each of which must be cleared in sequence.

1. Written Examination
2. Physical and Medical standards
3. Interview / Personality Test

Exam pattern by stage

Document verification

UPSC verifies eligibility against original documents only after a candidate has qualified for the Interview or Personality Test. Until that point, admission to every stage is purely provisional — the issue of an e-Admit Card does not mean your candidature has been cleared. A candidate can therefore sit and clear a paper and still be found ineligible later.

Final merit

Merit is prepared from the marks that count for this examination, and posts are allotted by merit-cum-preference against the confirmed vacancies. Ties are broken by rules published by the Commission — typically the marks in the compulsory papers, and where those are equal, seniority in age.

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE exam pattern

Total marks

As notified in the Rules for the cycle.

Negative marking

Yes — one third of the marks assigned to a question is deducted for each wrong answer in the objective paper.

UPSC does not normalise marks

This is the single most common misconception carried over from SSC. UPSC conducts each paper in one sitting with one question paper, so there are no shifts to equate and no normalisation formula. A published UPSC cut off is a raw mark you could actually have scored on the paper — which is why the figures are clean numbers rather than five-decimal scores.

What is next for UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE

The 2026 examination was held on 8 March 2026, interviews were held from 17 to 19 August 2026 and the final result was declared on 3 September 2026. The 2027 notification is due on 25 November 2026 for an examination on 14 March 2027.

CISF AC LDCE Eligibility

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE eligibility requires the following. Restricted to serving departmental candidates of the CISF who meet the service conditions set out in the Rules notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs. This is a limited departmental examination — it is not open to the general public. The age limit is Must not have attained 35 years as on 1 August 2026 — born not earlier than 2 August 1991. The upper limit is relaxable for SC and ST candidates..

Educational qualification

Restricted to serving departmental candidates of the CISF who meet the service conditions set out in the Rules notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs. This is a limited departmental examination — it is not open to the general public.

Age limit

Must not have attained 35 years as on 1 August 2026 — born not earlier than 2 August 1991. The upper limit is relaxable for SC and ST candidates..

Age relaxation

The notice provides no other age relaxation.

Number of attempts

As prescribed in the Rules notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Nationality

A candidate must be a citizen of India, or fall within the other categories of nationality set out in the Examination Notice — which for most services include subjects of Nepal and Bhutan, Tibetan refugees who came to India before 1 January 1962, and persons of Indian origin who have migrated from certain countries with the intention of permanently settling in India.

CISF AC LDCE Application Form

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE applications are submitted online at upsconline.nic.in. Since 2025 UPSC uses a four-module portal, and three of those modules can be completed before the notification is even published.

Important dates — CISF AC (EXE) LDCE 2026

Application fee

₹200. SC and ST candidates are exempted.

The URN and the Common Application Form

UPSC issues every candidate a Universal Registration Number (URN), which is registered once in a lifetime and is common to every UPSC examination. The Application Number, by contrast, is generated per examination and changes each time. Keep both — UPSC asks for them in any future correspondence.

How to apply

1. Create an account on upsconline.nic.in.
2. Complete Universal Registration to generate your URN. This can be done at any time — you do not need to wait for a notification.
3. Fill the Common Application Form (CAF) with your personal details, qualification and category, and upload the supporting documents. A live photograph must be captured at this stage in addition to the uploaded photo.
4. Open the examination-specific module during the application window, choose your centre and options, pay the fee and submit.

UPSC advises using an Aadhaar card as the identity document, because it verifies automatically and avoids manual checks later.

Correcting your application

UPSC provides a one-time facility to update the URN profile. Changes made to the profile do not flow back into applications already submitted — they apply only to applications made after the profile is re-locked. This catches people out every cycle.

CISF AC LDCE Vacancy

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE vacancies for CISF AC (EXE) LDCE 2026: 20 — General 16, SC 3 and ST 1.

Posts covered

Assistant Commandant (Executive) in the Central Industrial Security Force.

Pay

Pay Level 10 of the 7th CPC Pay Matrix (₹56,100 basic).

How UPSC announces vacancies

UPSC publishes an approximate vacancy figure in the Examination Notice and states in the same paragraph that the number is liable to alteration. The final figure is settled once the cadre controlling authorities confirm their requirements, which is usually after the Main Examination. The number in the notice is therefore an indication, not a commitment.

Reservation

Vacancies are reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, the Economically Weaker Sections and Persons with Benchmark Disability as fixed by the Government. The notice sets out the category-wise break-up, including the sub-categories of disability against which each PwBD vacancy is identified.

CISF AC LDCE Salary & Job Profile

UPSC CISF AC (EXE) LDCE posts carry Pay Level 10 of the 7th CPC Pay Matrix (₹56,100 basic), plus Dearness Allowance, House Rent Allowance and Transport Allowance.

Posts and pay

Assistant Commandant (Executive) in the Central Industrial Security Force.

Allowances

Because HRA and Transport Allowance are city-linked, two officers on identical basic pay take home noticeably different amounts — a metro posting pays more in allowances than a district posting, though the district posting usually comes with official accommodation and a vehicle.

Career progression

Promotion follows time scales fixed for the service, moving through Junior Time Scale, Senior Time Scale, Junior Administrative Grade, Selection Grade and above. The pay matrix levels rather than the entry salary are what make these posts competitive over a career.