Government Jobs Age Limit 45 Years for General, OBC & SC/ST 2026

Updated 2 Oct 2026 · 76 jobs

Forty-five is close to the highest upper age limit seen in regular government recruitment, mostly on state-level PSC posts, some departmental promotions-cum-direct-recruitment posts, and senior specialist roles. For reserved categories, combined relaxation can push the effective limit well beyond 45 even where the stated General limit is lower, since OBC, SC/ST and PwD relaxation can combine on posts that allow it. The list below shows jobs with a General limit at or near 45, along with the extra posts that open up for OBC and SC/ST candidates once standard relaxation is applied.

Posts in this bracket tend to have lighter physical requirements than entry-level recruitment, since they are mostly administrative, technical, medical or teaching roles rather than field or enforcement postings, so a physical test is uncommon here. Document verification tends to matter more at this level instead: candidates are expected to produce category certificates, experience letters and educational records that may be a decade or more old, so it helps to locate and organize these well before applying rather than scrambling once shortlisted. If a post is marked promotion-cum-direct-recruitment, read the notification carefully, since the direct-recruitment quota within it may have a smaller number of seats than the heading vacancy count suggests.

Combined relaxation is where this bracket gets most confusing, since more than one concession can apply to the same candidate on posts that allow stacking. A General base limit of 40, for example, can reach 50 for a PwD candidate (+10) or 55 for a PwD candidate who is also SC/ST (+10 and +5), well past what the headline 45-year figure on this page might suggest. These combinations are not automatic and not universal: each notification states explicitly whether relaxations stack and by how much, so never assume a combined figure without checking the specific post.