GSSSB CCE 2.0 Recruitment 2026: 1237 Posts, Apply by 30 Nov

GSSSB CCE 2.0 Recruitment 2026 has 1,237 Class-3 posts open in Gujarat government departments, and the online form closes on 30 November 2026 at 11:59 pm. Applications opened on 5 November at 2:00 pm on the OJAS portal, ojas.gujarat.gov.in.

The fee is Rs 500 for unreserved candidates and Rs 400 for reserved categories, and it comes back if you sit the preliminary exam. The advertisement is No. 468/202627, dated 3 November 2026.

The one choice that shapes everything else is Group A or Group B. Group A holds 243 posts across eight post types, from Sub Registrar to Senior Clerk, and ends in a descriptive main exam. Group B is a single post, Junior Clerk, with 994 seats and an objective main exam. Both groups share the same preliminary exam, so the choice is really about which main exam you want to write and which post you want to end up in.

GSSSB CCE 2.0 Recruitment 2026 at a glance

Group A or Group B is the first choice you make

Group A spreads its 243 seats across eight posts. Social Welfare Inspector takes the largest share at 89, then Senior Clerk at 51 and Assistant Tribal Development Officer at 50. Sub Registrar Grade-2 has 15, Office Assistant has 15 and Head Clerk has 10. Office Superintendent has 7 and Sub Registrar Grade-1 has just 6.

The pay follows the post. Sub Registrar Grade-1, Assistant Tribal Development Officer and Office Superintendent get Rs 49,600 a month. Sub Registrar Grade-2, Social Welfare Inspector and Head Clerk get Rs 40,800. Senior Clerk and Office Assistant get Rs 26,000.

Group B is simpler and much bigger. All 994 seats are Junior Clerk, spread across Gujarat government departments.

The largest slices sit in the Commissionerate of Schools with 200 seats and the Commissionerate of Transport with 160. The Forest Department, the Medical Education and Research Division and Cooperative Societies take 100 each, and the Directorate of Tribal Development takes 90. The rest scatter across smaller offices, down to single seats in the Development Commissioner Office and the Directorate of Insurance. Every Junior Clerk gets Rs 26,000 a month for the first five years.

So the trade is plain. Group A offers the better posts and the better pay, but only 243 seats and a descriptive main exam of three papers. Group B offers 994 seats in one post with an objective main exam, which is a friendlier paper for most graduates.

If you can write long answers in Gujarati and English under exam pressure, Group A is worth the attempt. If you want the best odds of landing a seat, Junior Clerk is where the numbers sit.

One thing to get straight before you apply: the Rs 26,000 to Rs 49,600 is fixed pay for the first five years, not a pay scale. After five years of satisfactory service, candidates become eligible for regular appointment in the applicable government pay scale, subject to the rules in force then. Do not read the fixed figure as the starting basic of a regular post.

Who can apply

Age is counted as on 30 November 2026. You must be at least 20 and not more than 35 on that date. The notification gives the usual relaxations on top of that, with five years for women and reserved category candidates and longer relaxations for persons with disabilities and ex-servicemen.

If your birthday falls near the cut off, work out your exact age on 30 November 2026 before you pay. The site's age calculator does that in seconds, and it beats guessing from a birth year.

The education rule is a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university or an equivalent qualification. You also need basic computer knowledge and adequate knowledge of Gujarati or Hindi. The computer certificate can come later, but you must produce one before appointment, so do not leave it to the last week. The qualification cut off is 30 November 2026, the same date as the age cut off.

The fee comes back if you sit the test

The fee is Rs 500 for unreserved candidates. Women of all categories, SEBC, SC, ST, EWS, persons with disabilities and ex-servicemen pay Rs 400. Pay it online through OJAS, and pay it by 2 December 2026 at 11:59 pm.

That date matters more than it looks, because the form closes on 30 November but the fee window runs two days longer, and the application is not valid until the fee is paid.

The refund is the part worth reading twice. The notification says the paid fee shall be refunded to candidates who appear in the preliminary examination. If you pay and do not sit the test, the money stays with the board.

So the fee is really a deposit on showing up, not a charge for applying. Apply only if you plan to write the exam.

What the exam looks like

Selection runs through a preliminary exam, a main exam and document verification. The preliminary exam is common to both groups. It is an objective paper of 150 questions for 150 marks, to be finished in 120 minutes.

Reasoning carries 60 marks, the biggest slice. English and Gujarati carry 15 each, while general awareness and current affairs carry 30 and quantitative aptitude carries 30. Every wrong answer loses 0.25 marks, and you need 40 percent to qualify. The prelim marks only screen candidates for the main exam and do not carry forward to the final merit, and the board calls seven times the category-wise vacancies to the mains, by merit.

The main exam is where the groups split. Group A writes three descriptive papers worth 350 marks in total: Gujarati language skill for 100, English language skill for 100 and general studies for 150, three hours each. Group B writes one objective paper of 200 marks in 120 minutes, covering the constitution, economy, public administration, ethics, government schemes, current affairs, Gujarat history and geography, cultural heritage, Gujarati and English, and science and information technology. The 40 percent qualifying standard applies to the main exam too.

No exam dates have been announced yet. The board will publish them on gsssb.gujarat.gov.in, so check the site after you apply instead of trusting a date forwarded on WhatsApp.

How to apply on OJAS

Start with One Time Registration on ojas.gujarat.gov.in if you do not already have it. Log in and open Online Application. Select GSSSB, then choose Advertisement No. 468/202627.

Read the full advertisement through the More Details option before you fill anything, because the 38 page notification carries the reservation and syllabus rules in full, plus the document formats.

Fill the form, upload your photograph and signature in the size the form asks for, accept the declaration and save the application. Note the application number. Then open the Confirm Application facility, review everything carefully and confirm before the deadline. Save the confirmation number that comes after confirmation.

Pay the fee online by 2 December 2026 and keep the payment receipt and a printout of the application. If your photo or signature file is the wrong size for the form, the site's exam photo resizer fixes it in a minute.

Railways opened a separate 191 post recruitment the same week, and the details sit in the RRB Isolated Categories Recruitment 2026 post on this site. That one runs on rrbapply.gov.in and closes on 4 December 2026.

Sources & verification: Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board, Advertisement No. 468/202627 dated 3 November 2026, read 6 November 2026 from the official 38 page notification on gsssb.gujarat.gov.in. Apply only through ojas.gujarat.gov.in. The key figures in this article were read directly from that notification: the vacancy table on page 1, the age limit on page 13, the fixed pay table on page 14, the qualification on page 15, the fee on page 24, the exam pattern on pages 25 to 26 and the mains syllabus in Appendix G on page 31.