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CDSCOCentral Drugs Standard Control Organisation
01Exams & posts
What CDSCO recruits for
| Exam | Posts | Education | Age | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs Inspector Recruitment (Group B, Gazetted)Recruited by direct recruitment through UPSC; degree in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences or Medicine (Clinical Pharmacology/Microbiology) required. Pay Level-8, 7th CPC. | Drugs Inspector | Graduate | <=30 | irregular |
A dash means that detail is not stated on the official page — it is left blank rather than guessed. Always confirm against the notification itself.
02How it recruits
In plain words
CDSCO is India's national drug regulatory authority under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, responsible for approving new drugs, clinical trials, drug standards and quality of imported drugs. Its Drugs Inspector posts (Group B, Gazetted) are recruited by direct recruitment through UPSC against CDSCO's own notified Recruitment Rules; the 2025 rules sanctioned 419 such posts. Notices are published on the CDSCO website and the UPSC portal.
CDSCO recruits mainly through a written examination followed by an interview. Posts recorded here are commonly classified as Group B.
Entry qualifications recorded: GraduatePost-graduate
03Contact
As published on its own official site
- AddressFDA Bhawan, Kotla Road, New Delhi
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04Vacancies
Open notifications from CDSCO
No open notification from this body is indexed yet. New notifications are added on a 2–3 day research rotation — until one appears here, check the official recruitment page above, which is always the first place a genuine notification is published.
05Related bodies
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ICMR-National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections, Kolkata (formerly NICED) (ICMR-NIRBI (NICED))
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