Scientific Officer (Chemistry / Pharma) Recruitment in Directorate of Forensic Services

Online Recruitment Applications (ORA*) are invited from desirous and eligible candidates for recruitment to 01 post of Scientific Officer (NDPS), Group-B (Job Trainee) in the Directorate of Forensic Services, Department of Home, H.P.

Candidates may kindly note that the recruitment and engagement under this advertisement shall be governed as per the scheme for engagement of job trainees on fixed amount in the departments of the State Government issued vide Department of Personnel's notification No. Per(AP)-C-B(15)-3/2024 dated 19th July, 2025 and all subsequent orders/guidelines issued in this regard.

Post : Scientific Officer (NDPS)

No of post : 01

Name of dept : HOME-C

Pay scale : Emoluments for Job Trainee (Rs. 28000/-per month)

Essential Qualification(s)
i) At least 2nd class M.Sc. in Forensic Science (with specialization/ dissertation work/ course work/ project work in the field of Chemical Sciences). OR At least 2nd class M.Sc. in Chemistry/ Bio-Chemistry, Pharmacy/ M.S.(Pharm.)/ M. Pharm. from a recognized University.
ii) Minimum three (03) years of post-qualification experience (acquired after obtaining the degrees mentioned above) in Research, Training and Analytical Work within any of the subjects as specified in (i) above. The experience certificate must be formally issued and signed by either the Research Supervisor or the Head of the Organization/ Department.
iii) Any research work conducted specifically for the completion of a Ph.D. degree shall be counted towards the total required experience of three years.

Desirable Qualification : (i) Ph.D. Degree in one of the above subjects.
(ii) Knowledge of customs, manners and dialects of Himachal Pradesh and suitability for engagement in the peculiar conditions prevailing in the Pradesh.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS
1. The date of determining the eligibility of all candidates in terms of essential qualification(s), experience, if any, shall be reckoned as on the closing date for submission of Online Recruitment Applications through ORA portal.
2. The reserved category candidates falling under vertical reservation i.e. S.C./S.T. /O.B.C./E.W.S. who are appointed on their own merit and not owing to reservation will not be adjusted against reserved points and they will be adjusted against unreserved points. The S.C. / S.T. candidate appointed on their own merit and adjusted against unreserved points will retain their status of S.C. / S.T. and will be eligible to get benefit of reservation in future / further promotions, if any. However, only such S.C. / S.T. / O.B.C. / E.W.S. candidates falling under vertical reservation who are selected on the same standard as applied to general candidates shall not be adjusted against reserved vacancies. In other words, when a relaxed standard is applied at any stage of selection process in selecting S.C. / S.T. / O.B.C. / E.W.S. candidates, for example in the age-limit, experience, qualification, permitted number of chances in written examination (screening test / written examination), extended zone of consideration larger than what is provided for general category candidates etc., the S.C. / S.T. / O.B.C. / E.W.S. candidates are to be counted against reserved vacancies. Such candidates would be deemed as unavailable for consideration against unreserved vacancies in accordance with the instructions of the Government (in the Department of Personnel) issued vide letter No. PER (AP)-C-F(1)-2/2001 dated 12th November, 2014. The candidates belonging to reserved categories falling under horizontal reservation i.e. Ex- servicemen / Wards of Ex-servicemen, Children / Grand Children of Freedom Fighters (W.F.F.), Persons with Benchmark Disabilities and Distinguished Sportspersons who acquire merit / marks on at par with the purely general candidates shall not be selected / appointed against general / unreserved posts and will be adjusted against the post reserved for respective category falling under horizontal reservation. However, it does not debar or preclude a candidate falling under vertical / horizontal reservation from applying and competing for any unreserved post subject to his / her eligibility and clearing the written test / personality test successfully without any relaxation.
3. For recruitment to the post(s) to be filled up on the basis of experience, it will be necessary for the candidates to have the required experience for determining his/her eligibility after acquiring the requisite essential educational qualification(s) or as per the notified selection criteria, as the case may be.
4. The decision of the Commission regarding eligibility etc. of a candidate for admission to Personality Test or selection will be final and no correspondence / personal enquiries will be entertained.
5. Onus of proving that a candidate has acquired requisite degree/ essential qualification by the stipulated date, shall be on the candidate and in the absence of proof to the contrary, the date as mentioned on the face of certificate/ degree or the date of issue of certificate/degree shall be taken as date of acquiring essential educational qualification. No extra opportunity shall be provided to the candidates to produce appropriate certificates at the time of personality test(s).
NOTE-: All candidates, whether already in Government Service, Government owned industrial undertakings or other similar organizations or in private employment should apply to the Commission through Online Web portal. Persons already in Government service, whether in a permanent or temporary capacity or as work charged employees other than casual or daily rated employees or those serving under Public Enterprises are however, required to inform their Head of Office/Department that they have applied for the Examination. They are also required to submit an undertaking on prescribed proforma that they have informed in writing their Head of Office/Department that they have applied for the Examination. The candidates should note that in case a communication is received from their employer by the Commission withholding permission to the candidates applying for/ appearing in the examination, their application/candidature will liable to be cancelled.

Age : Between 18 to 45 years.
Age of a candidate shall be reckoned as on 01-01-2026.
NOTE I : Candidates should note that only the date of birth as recorded in the matriculation/ Secondary Examination Certificate or an equivalent certificate as on the date of submission of applications will be accepted by the Commission and no subsequent request for its change will be considered or granted.
NOTE II : Candidates should also note that once a date of birth has been claimed by them and entered in the records of the Commission for the purpose of admission to an examination, no change will be allowed subsequently (or at any other examination of the Commission) on any grounds whatsoever. NOTE III: The candidate should exercise due care while entering their date of birth in respective column of the application Form. If on verification at any subsequent stage, any variation is found in their date of birth from the one entered in their Matriculation or equivalent examination certificate, disciplinary action will be taken against them by the Commission under the Rules.
CLARIFICATION : Five years relaxation in upper age limit is admissible only to the Bonafide S.C. of H.P. / S.T. of H.P. / O.B.C. of H.P./W.F.F. of H.P./Persons with disabilities of Himachal Pradesh. For H.P. Govt. employees and Ex- Servicemen of H.P.; age relaxation is as per Government’s instructions issued from time to time and as mentioned in detail under title Age Limits. The age relaxation for bonafide S.C. of H.P. / S.T. of H.P. / O.B.C. of H.P. /W.F.F. of H.P./ Persons with disabilities of Himachal Pradesh/ Ex. Servicemen of H.P. is available only if there is a post reserved for these categories.

EXAMINATION FEES:-
A uniform fee shall be charged from all the candidates, irrespective of their category or gender : 600.00
Note-I:- While filling in his/her Application Form, the candidate should carefully decide about his/her choice for the Centre for the examination.

MODE OF PAYMENT:- The desirous & eligible candidates shall pay the examination fee fixed category-wise online by Debit Card/Credit Card/UPI/ any other online digital mode, as the case may be, on or before the prescribed closing date for submission of Online Recruitment Applications OTR portal. While making payment the candidate(s) shall pay specified amount only after accepting the "Terms and Conditions to apply online". Fee once paid shall neither be refunded under any circumstance nor can it be held in reserve for any other examination or selection.
NOTE : Candidates should note that payment of fee can be made only through the modes prescribed above. Payment of fee through any other mode is neither valid nor acceptable. Applications submitted without the prescribed fee/mode shall be summarily rejected.

Other Conditions:-
1. The marks obtained by all candidates (successful / Unsuccessful) in Screening test (CBT / Offline) / Written (Pre.) Examination / Written (main) Examination and marks given to all candidates in Personality test including cut-off, to be displayed on the official website of the Commission, after 15 days of sending the recommendation to the Appointing Authority / Government and will be live on the website of this Commission for three months after uploading the marks on the website.
2. The eligibility of candidate(s) called for the Personality Test will be determined on the basis of original documents produced on the day of Personality Test and the Commission will not be responsible if the candidature of any candidate is rejected at that stage or at the time of verification by the Appointing Authority. As such, admission to the Screening Test/ Examination/ Personality Test shall be purely provisional.
3. If any candidates appears in the Screening Test at the centre other than the allotted centre, his / her candidature will be rejected straightway and no correspondence will be entertained in the matter.
4. The number of vacancies to be filled in on the basis of this Screening Test may increase or decrease.
5. Summoning of the candidate(s) for Personality Test; conveys no assurance whatsoever that they will be selected or recommended. Appointment orders to the selected candidate(s) will be issued by the appropriate Appointing Authority.
6. Re-checking/ re-evaluation, for the written examination(s)/ Screening Tests (Computer Based Test/ Offline Test) will not be allowed in any case.
7. It may be ensured by the candidates before submitting the applications that furnishing false information and documents or suppression of any factual information in the application form would entail disqualification. If the fact that false information / document(s) has been furnished or that there has been suppression of any factual information in the application; comes to the notice at any time during the service of a person, his service would be liable to be terminated.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
1. If any person with benchmark disability having disability of 40% or more requires scribe/reader, he/she has to request for the same in writing to the Commission alongwith copy of disability certificate issued by the competent authority atleast seven days prior to the screening test (Computer Based Test/ Offline Test) for the concerned post. such application will be entertained on merit and as per rules.
2. The SC / ST / OBC / WFF / Physically Handicapped and Ex-servicemen candidates of states other than H.P. should write / encode their category code as 01, because they will be treated as unreserved candidates and upper age relaxation is not applicable to them.
3. The candidates belonging to disabled categories are advised to claim their respective category only if the percentage of disability is 40% or more than this.
4. The applicant shall upload his/her latest photograph in the space provided in the application form. In case, photograph uploaded on the application of Preliminary examination is found different / varying to that of pasted on the Identity Card for appearing in the Main examination, the candidature of such candidates shall stand cancelled.
5. General Wards of Ex-serviceman erroneously apply against the post of Ex. Servicemen choose the code of Ex-Servicemen of H.P. in the relevant Column of the Online Recruitment Application (ORA) resulting in rejection of their candidature. Therefore, they shall write and choose the code of category(s) to which they actually belong and not select the code of Ex-Servicemen.
6. The Ex-servicemen candidates of H.P. must go through the relevant Rules and instructions pertaining to reservation notified /issued by the H.P. Govt. from time to time in order to ensure their eligibility for admission to the aforesaid examination.
7. Reserved category candidates are also required to go through the relevant instructions in order to ensure that they are eligible under the particular category(s).
8. Since the eligibilty of all provisionally admitted candidates will be adjudged/the candidates are required to produce original certificates/ documents as proof in support of their claim regarding age-limit category/ educational qualifications and experience etc. made in the online recruitment application. On the day of Personality Test/document verification if any candidate fails to produce original certificate of his/her category of which he/she has made claim in the online recruitment application in addition to other original certificate with regard to his/her eligibility, he/she shall not be allowed to appear before the Personality test/ document verification board and his/her candidature shall stand automatically rejected. In case the validity of OBC (Non creamy leayer) or EWS OR BPL certificate has expired during the day of document verification or personality test or when asked by the Commission than the candidate will be required to submit a self declaration stating that his/her status has not been changed and he/she is not excluded from the category of OBC or EWS of BPL to the Commission.
9. Candidates are informed that as per Government of H.P. (in the Department of Personnel) notification No. Per (APB)B(15)-36/2022 dated 22-03-2023, the examinations conducted by the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission will come under the purview of Himachal Pradesh Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2025.
10. A candidate at any stage of examination /selection which shall include final selection and sending recommendation(s) thereof or during the course of examination or any selection process conducted or being conducted may in addition to rendering himself / herself liable to criminal prosecution under relevant laws (in the case of candidate already in service under Government, to disciplinary action and criminal prosecution under the appropriate rules and relevant laws) may be debarred from appearing in any written examination / Document verification/ Personality Test for a period not exceeding 15 years, or his candidature may be cancelled at the discretion of the Commission w.e.f. the date as may be decided by the Commission, if he or she is found to be guilty of the following :
(i) obtaining / seeking support for his / her candidature whether in the Examination or Physical Test or Document verification or Personality Test by any means; or
(ii) impersonating; or
(iii) procuring impersonation by any person; or
(iv) submitting false/ fabricated documents or documents which have been tampered with; or
(v) making statements which are incorrect or false or flouts any Instructions Guidelines, terms and condition, given in advertisements or instructions communicated in any manner or suppressing therein material information at any stage of selection; or
(vi) resorting to the following means in connection with his / her candidature for the examination, namely:
(a) obtaining copy of question paper through improper means; (b) finding out the particulars of the persons connected with secret work relating to the Examination; Evaluation, Physical Test and Personality Test /Document verification, (c) Influencing the Examiners; or
(vii) using or attempting to use unfair means in the Examination Hall; or
(viii) writing obscene matter or drawing obscene sketches in the scripts; or (ix) harassing, threatening or causing physical injury to the staff engaged in the conduct of Examination or Physical Test or Document verification or Personality Test ; or (x) violating any of the instructions given to the candidates in their admission card or other directives including oral instructions given by the centre supervisor /superintendent or other staff engaged in the conduct of Examination or Physical Test or Document verification or Personality Test ; or
(xi) misbehaving in the examination hall including tearing of the scripts, provoking fellow examinees to boycott Examination or Physical Test or Document verification or Personality Test creating a disorderly scene and the like; or (xii) being in possession of or using mobile phone, pager, scanner or any electronic equipment or device or any other equipment capable of being used as a communication device during the Examination or Physical Test or Document verification or Personality Test ; or
(xiii) being debarred earlier on the above mentioned grounds by the Union Public Service Commission or any State Public Service Commission or any other government department / recruiting agency including this Commission.
(xiv) attempting to commit or, as the case may be, abetting the Commission of all or any of the acts specified in the foregoing clauses; Provided that no penalty under this Rule shall be imposed except after:-
(a) giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation in writing as he/she may wish to make in that behalf; and
(b) taking into consideration the representation, if any, submitted by the candidate within the period allowed to him/ her.

HOW TO APPLY:- Detailed instructions for filling up Online Recruitment Application (ORA) are available on the website of the Commission i.e. “hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc”.
1. Desirous/eligible candidates have to apply online through official website of the Commission i.e. hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc. Applications received through any other mode would not be accepted and will be rejected straightway.
2. The desirous and eligible candidate may visit the official website of the Commission (hppsc.hp.gov.in/hppsc) and click on the link “Apply Online” on the Home Page. On the opened page the candidate will click on the link “One Time Registration (OTR) for Examinations” and on the opened page will register and create his / her profile by clicking on “New Registration” if not registered already. After registration or if already registered the candidate will have to log into his / her account in OTR page, Once logged in, the list of live advertisements will be displayed to the candidate on the dashboard. Candidate will apply for a particular post through this portal only. The application of the candidate will be submitted only after uploading of requisite documents as per advertisement. Before submission of application, the candidate will have to give an undertaking/ declaration that:- “It is certified that I have checked the preview of all the requisite uploaded documents and I am satisfied that documents are legible, readable and true. That I shall not object to rejection of my candidature based on the sole reasons of uploaded documents being non-readable/ poor quality of scanning.”
3. Once submitted the candidate can not make any corrections/modifications to the application and should therefore, check all fields carefully before submission.
4. Online Recruitment Application (ORA) once submitted shall not be allowed any change except change of category as per procedure laid down in Rule 5(iv) of Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (Procedure and Transaction of Business) Rules, 2023" (As amended upto from time to time). Provided that if the status of any candidate changes during the recruitment process and he/she fails to submit relevant category certificate at the time of provisional rejection, he/she will be considered as unreserved candidate subject to his/her fulfilling all eligibility conditions required for unreserved category and not availing any relaxed standard. In such a situation, the candidate shall have to deposit the difference amount of the application fees as is applicable for the general category.
5. Application without scanned latest photograph or signature shall be rejected straightaway.

Advertisement Number : 32/6-2026
Closing Date for Application : 07/07/2026 11:59PM and
Closing Date for Fee : 07/07/2026 11:59PM