Bihar Police SI Recruitment 2026: 150 Special Branch Sub-Inspector Posts (BPSSC Advt No. 09/2026)

Bihar Police SI Recruitment has opened for graduate candidates across the state. The Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC) has invited online applications through Advertisement No. 09/2026 to fill 150 Sub-Inspector posts in the Special Branch (General Closed Cadre) under the Home Department, Bihar. The form will go live on 9 July 2026 and will remain open until 9 August 2026 on the official portal bpssc.bihar.gov.in. If you have wanted a Bihar Police officer-rank job with a relatively relaxed upper age limit, this cycle is worth a serious look.

The Special Branch closed cadre is a niche wing, so this 150-post intake is smaller and more specialized than BPSSC's mainstream Sub-Inspector drives. For context, the regular Bihar Police SI cycle under Advt. No. 05/2025 has 1,799 posts and is open every year, which is exactly why it deserves attention. No. 05/2025 carried 1,799 posts and is open every year, which is exactly why it deserves attention. Our reading: because seats are limited to 150 and the special branch tag draws fewer casual applicants than a general SI post, the field is smaller but sharper. Serious, well-prepared candidates tend to have a better strike rate here than in the mass-scale 1,799 post cycle, where lakhs compete. Treat this as a lower-volume, higher-focus opportunity rather than a numbers game.

Paper 1 (objective, 200 marks, 3 hours, with 0.25 negative marking per wrong answer) is split across General Studies and Current Affairs (50 marks), Mathematics and Quantitative Aptitude (40 marks), Reasoning and Analytical Ability (40 marks), General Knowledge of Bihar (30 marks), English Language (20 marks), and Hindi Language (20 marks). Paper 2 (descriptive, 50 marks, 1 hour) carries a Hindi essay (15), an English essay (15), an English précis (10), and a Hindi-to-English translation (10). The Preliminary paper covers English, General Knowledge, Hindi, Reasoning and current affairs, with 2 marks per correct answer.

BPSSC has not published a separate cut-off for this Special Branch closed-cadre post, so the closest honest reference comes from the commission's general Sub-Inspector cycle. In the Advt. No. 05/2025 preliminary examination, the unreserved cutoff was around 171 marks for men and about 159 for women out of 200, with reserved categories lower in line with reservation norms. Across recent cycles, the Unreserved Prelims cut-off has broadly moved in the 130 to 175 range depending on paper difficulty and applicant numbers. The universal qualifying floor is 30 percent, meaning 60 out of 200 in the prelims. Our expectation for this cadre: with only 150 posts and a 10-times shortlisting ratio for the main, the effective prelims base is likely to sit in the moderate to high band for unreserved candidates, with meaningful relaxation for EBC, SC, and ST. Aiming comfortably above 60 percent in the prelims is a safer target than scraping the qualifying line.

The post sits at Pay Level 6 of the 7th Pay Commission matrix, with a starting basic pay of Rs. 35,400 per month (scale Rs. 35,400 to Rs. 1,12,400). On top of the basics, you get a dearness allowance, house rent allowance, and other allowances, which push the gross to roughly Rs. 49,700 to Rs. 54,200 per month at the entry level. The number that actually reaches your account is lower. After the mandatory NPS contribution (10 % of basic plus DA), professional tax, and any applicable income tax, the honest in-hand for a fresh Sub-Inspector works out to about Rs. 45,000 to Rs. 50,000 per month. HRA depends on your posting, so Patna and large centers pay a higher sub than district headquarters, and two officers on the same basic can take home slightly different amounts. Officers recruited after 2005 fall under the National Pension System, so there is no fixed defined pension, and your retirement corpus builds in the NPS account.

The fee is a flat Rs. 100 for every candidate, all categories, and both men and women. Payment is online only, through net banking, credit card, debit card, or UPI. Any bank or gateway transaction charge is borne by you. Once paid, the fee is not refunded, and requesting a chargeback after applying can lead to rejection and legal action, so pay carefully and avoid duplicate transactions.