The Intelligence Bureau (IB) Security Assistant Recruitment Official Notification 2025 has been released on 22 July 2025 for the direct recruitment of 4987 Security Assistant/Executive vacancies. Interested candidates can check the detailed information for the IB Security Assistant Official Notification 2025, IB Security Assistant Exam Dates 2025, IB Security Assistant Vacancies 2025, IB Security Assistant Eligibility 2025, here in this Veranda RACE article. Candidates can apply for the Intelligence Bureau Security Assistant Recruitment 2025 from 26 July 2025 until 17 August 2025.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has released a short notification for the upcoming IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF through a detailed advertisement for the recruitment of 4987 Security Assistant/Executive in the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
This IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF has been released by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on its website on 26 July 2025.
Indian nationals can start applying for the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 for the direct recruitment of 4987 Security Assistant Executive vacancies in the Intelligence Bureau from 26 July 2025 onwards.
The last date to apply or submit the online application for the Intelligence Bureau Security Assistant Executive Exam 2025 is 17 August 2025.
The online application window to apply for the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 will remain open from 26 July 2025 till 17 August 2025.
Since the IB Security Assistant Selection Process 2025 is a multi-stage exam process, candidates must begin their preparation early to get through and get the ACIO Security Assistant Executive job and work in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
Candidates can download the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF containing important details such as vacancies, educational qualification, age limit, salary and exam pattern here using the direct link below:
The Intelligence Bureau under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has officially issued the short notice for the IB Security Assistant/Executive Official Recruitment Exam Notification 2025 PDF in the Employment News magazine.
The official notification of the IB Security Assistant Executive Recruitment 2025 PDFwas released by the Home Affairs Ministry on 26 July on its official website.
This IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 is conducted for the direct recruitment of 4987 Intelligenec Bureau Security Assistant/Executive vacancies in 2025 all over India.
Since the exam pattern is somewhat similar to the SSC Exam pattern, candidates preparing for the SSC CGL Exam, SSC CHSL Exam,SSC MTS Exam, etc. can also apply for the Intelligence Bureau Security Assistant Executive Exam Recruitment 2025 for 4987 vacancies. Veranda RACE will soon release the detailed exam pattern and exam syllabus for the IB Security Assistant Recruitment 2025 Exam.
Indian nationals who are eligible to apply for the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 for the direct recruitment of posts of the Security Assistant Executive in the Intelligence Bureau can find the comprehensive overview of the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF below in this Veranda RACE blog post:
The Intelligence Bureau will officially start the Intelligence Bureau Security Assistant Exam 2025 Online Application process for the IB Security Assistant Executive Exam Selection Process 2025 starting from 26 July.
Eligible candidates who wish to apply for the 4987 Security Assistant Executive posts in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) can submit their IB Security Assistant Exam Online Application 2025 from 26 July 2025 to 17 August 2025 on the Union Ministry of Home Affairs official website (www.mha.gov.in) or the National Career Service website (www.ncs.gov.in) only.
To complete the IB Security Assistant Exam Apply Online Process 2025, eligible Indian candidates must visit the official Union MHA website or the NCS portal to apply if they have the eligibility as mentioned in the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF.
Candidates can also use the direct online link available below to apply for the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Selection Process:
The IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF released by the Intelligence Bureau is mainly for the direct recruitment of Security Assistant / Executive posts, which is a Group C (General Intelligence Service) and also Non-Gazetted and Non-Ministerial post.
The number of IB Security Assistant / Executive Vacancies in 2025 was officially announced in the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF and Short Notice.
A total of 4987 Security Assistant/Executive Vacancies 2025 was announced by the Intelligence Bureau in the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam Official Notification 2025 PDF and short notice.
Here, interested candidates can find the detailed category-wise listing of the IB Security Assistant vacancies announced in 2025:
The number of IB Security Assistant / Executive vacancies in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for the General category is 2471, for OBC is 1015, for EWS is 501 and for SC & ST is 574 and 426, respectively.
The 4987 vacancies for the posts of Security Assistant / Executive are available in the following Subsidiary Intelligence Bureaux mentioned here along with the local language / dialect of the region that is necessary to be known by the candidates:
Agartala – 67 vacancies – Bangla, Kokborok, Chakma, Kawbru, Halam
Ahmedabad – 367 vacancies – Gujarati, Kutchchi
Aizawl – 53 vacancies – Mizo, Lai, Mara, Pang, Bru, Burmese, Falam-Chin, Bawm
Amritsar – 74 vacancies – Punjabi
Bengaluru – 204 vacancies – Kannada, Tulu, Beary, Konkani, Nawayathi
Bhopal – 87 vacancies – Hindi
Bhubaneshwar – 76 vacancies – Odia, Kutia, Dongria, Bhunjia
Chandigarh – 86 vacancies – Hindi, Punjabi
Chennai – 285 vacancies – Tamil
Dehradun – 37 vacancies – Hindi
Delhi – 1124 vacancies – Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
Gangtok – 33 vacancies – Nepali, Bhutia, Lepcha
Guwahati – 124 vacancies – Assamese, Sylheti, Bengali, Nepali, Bodo, Mishing, Dimasa, Rabha, Tiwa, Kuki, Himar, Paite, Garo, Santhali, Koch-Rajbanshi, Manipuri (Meitei), Khasi
Hyderabad – 117 vacancies – Telugu
Imphal – 39 vacancies – Manipuri (Bengali and Meitei Mayek script), Tangkhul, Mao, Anal, Maring, Thadou, Paite, Zou, Rongmei and Mizo
Itanagar – 180 vacancies– Nyishi, Adi, Galo, Apatani, Idu Mishmi, Monpa, Nocte, Tangsa, Sherdukpen and Memba
Jaipur – 130 vacancies– Hindi, Marwari, Dhatti/Thari and Wagdi
Jammu – 75 vacancies– Dogri, Kashmiri, Urdu, Gojri and Hindi
Kalimpong – 14 vacancies– Tibetan and Nepali
Kohima – 56 vacancies– Angami, Ao, Sema, Lotha, Chakesang, Rengma, Chang, Sangtam, Yimchunger, Phom, Konyak, Pochury, Zeliang, Kuki, Kachari, Khiamnumgan, Tikhir and Nagamese
Kolkata – 280 vacancies– Bengali, Sylheti, Nepali, Bhutanese, Urdu, Santhali and Rohingya
Leh – 37 vacancies– Ladakhi/Bhoti, Purgi, Balti, Shena/Brokskat, Changskat, Zangskari and Tibetan.
Lucknow -229 vacancies– Hindi
Meerut – 41 vacancies– Hindi
Mumbai – 266 vacancies– Marathi, Konkani and Ahirani
Nagpur – 32 vacancies– Marathi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gondi and Madiya
Panaji – 42 vacancies– Konkani and Marathi
Patna – 164 vacancies– Hindi
Raipur – 28 vacancies– Gondi, Halbi and Telugu
Ranchi – 33 vacancies– Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Santhali, Ho/Mundari, Oraon/Kurukh, Kharia & Kurmali
Shillong – 33 vacancies– Garo, Jaintia-Pnar, War-Jaintia and Hajong
Shimla – 40 vacancies– Hindi
Siliguri – 39 vacancies– Bengali, Nepali, Rajbanshi and Santali
Srinagar – 58 vacancies– Kashmiri and Pahari
Trivandrum – 334 vacancies– Malayalam
Varanasi – 48 vacancies– Hindi
Vijayawada – 115 vacancies– Telugu
The IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF will be officially released by the Intelligence Bureau on its official website on 26 July 2025. A short indicative notice was announced by the Intelligence Bureau for the recruitment of 4987 Security Assistant vacancies in the Employment News magazine on 21 July 2025.
Interested and eligible IB Security Assistant candidates can find the IB Security Assistant Exam Important Dates 2025 belonging to the IB Security Assistant Exam Schedule 2025 here:
The exam dates for the IB Security Assistant Online Exam for Tier I exam 2025 will be officially released by the Intelligence Bureau in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs official website.
Candidates can check the Veranda RACE website to know the IB Security Assistant Online Exam Dates 2025 when it is officially announced by the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The last date to apply for the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Selection Process is 17 August 2025 at the www.mha.gov.in website or the NCS portal.
Interested and eligible applicants for the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 for the recruitment to the post of Security Assistant / /Executive should fulfill the following eligibility criteria to apply online.
The eligibility criteria for the IB Security Assistant Executive Exam Selection Process 2025 include IB Security Assistant Nationality 2025, IB Security Assistant Educational Qualification 2025, IB Security Assistant Age Limit 2025, etc., which are discussed below in depth in this IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 Official Notification blog post of Veranda RACE:
Candidates must be citizens of India to be eligible for the Intelligence Bureau Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025.
Candidates interested to apply for the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 must have passed Matriculation (10th Class) or equivalent from a recognised Board of Education as mentioned in the IB Security Assistant Executive Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF for the direct recruitment of 4987 Security Assistant/Executive vacancies in the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The cut-off date for determining the eligibility for IB Security Assistant Educational Qualification 2025 is 17 August 2025.
Candidates should also possess a domicile certificate from the state in which they are applying for the IB Security Assistant Recruitment 2025.
Knowledge of any one of the local language / dialect method as given in the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam Official Notification PDF for each SIB is necessary.
Candidates interested to apply for the 4987 Security Assistant Executive vacancies through the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Selection Process should be within 18 years to 27 years of age.
The date to determine the candidate’s age for the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 with respect to minimum and maximum age will be 17 August 2025.
Minimum Age: 18 years
Maximum Age: 27 years
Eligibility Cut-off Date: 17 August 2025
Age relaxation in the upper age limit will be applicable for candidates belonging to reserved categories as per government norms.
As per the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Official Notification PDF, age relaxation will be applicable for candidates belonging to reserved categories.
Age relaxation depends on the category of the candidates and follow government rules. Check the below table to know more about the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Age Relaxation:
The upper age limit for the IB Security Assistant Executive Selection Process 2025 is relaxable up to 40 years for departmental candidates who are Central Government Civilian employees with at least three years of regular and continuous service. This relaxation does not apply to employees of PSUs, Autonomous Bodies or Statutory Organisations.
For widows, divorced women and women judicially separated from their husbands and not remarried, the age limit is relaxable up to 35 years for General candidates, 38 years for OBC and 40 years for SC/ST candidates.
Additionally, meritorious sportspersons are granted an age relaxation of up to 5 years in the IB Security Assistant Selection Process 2025.
The IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 is a three-staged process and candidates have to clear all the three stages to get shortlisted as a Security Assistant or Executive post in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
The IB Security Assistant Exam 2025 Selection Process involves the following three stages:
IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Online Exam 2025
IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Written Exam 2025
IB Security Assistant Interview 2025
IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Online Exam is an objective exam consisting of 100 questions and 100 marks. Candidates who clear the IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Online Exam 2025 will be called to attend the IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Written Exam 2025.
The IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Exam 2025 will be a written descriptive paper consisting of translation of a passage of 500 words from local language/dialect to English and vice versa. The IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Written Exam 2025 will be conducted for a total of 50 marks for 1 hour.
Candidates who clear the IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Exam 2025 will be called for the IB Security Assistant Interview or Personality Test 2025 based on their combined performance in Tier 1 and Tier 2 Exams.
Based on their performances in Tier I, Tier II and Interview marks, the IB Security Assistant Final Merit List 2025 for the posts of IB ACIO Grade II/Executive will be prepared.
The final selection to the post will be further subject to successful completion of character and antecedent verification followed by Medical Exam.
The IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Exam 2025 is an online objective MCQ test consisting of five sections:
General Awareness
Quantitative Aptitude
Numerical / Analytical / Logical Ability and Reasoning
English Language
General Studies
Each section in the IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Online Exam 2025 consists of 20 questions. The total marks are 100 marks for the IB ACIO Tier 1 Online Exam 2025.
It is conducted for a total of 1 hour or 60 minutes.
This Tier 1 Online Exam of the IB Security Assistant Recruitment 2025 consists of a total of 100 questions.
There is a negative marking of 1/4th mark for each wrong answer in the Tier 1 phase of the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 Selection Process.
Here you can find the detailed exam pattern for the IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Online Exam Pattern 2025:
The cut-off marks for the IB Security Assistant Tier 1 Online Exam 2025 would be 30 marks for General, 28 marks for OBC, 25 marks for SC/ST and 30 marks for EWS candidates. There is no sectional timing in the Tier 1 Online Exam for the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025.
The IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Written Exam 2025 will be a descriptive written exam conducted for a total of 50 marks. It will consist of the translation of a passage of 500 words from local language / dialect to English and vice versa. The total duration of the IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Written Exam 2025 will be 1 hour or 60 minutes.
Here you can find the detailed table view of the IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Written Exam Pattern 2025:
The Tier 2 phase of the IB Security Assistant Recruitment Exam 2025 will be qualifying in nature. The qualifying marks in IB Security Assistant Tier 2 Written Exam 2025 will be 20 marks out of 50 marks.
The candidates shortlisted for the post of Assistant Security/Executive posts in the Intelligence will be offered a pay scale of Level 3 (₹21700 to ₹69100) in the pay matrix plus admissible Central Government allowances.
This IB Security Assistant/Executive posts will be a Group C (Non-Gazetted, Non-Ministerial) post in the General Central Service of the Indian Government.
The pay scale of the IB Security Assistant/Executive officer in the Intelligence Bureau is ₹21,700 to ₹69,100.
IB Security Assistant Pay Scale: ₹21,700 to ₹69,100
IB Security Assistant Salary Level: Level 3
Special Security Allowance: 20 per cent of Basic Pay
IB Security Assistant Post Grade: Group C
Gazetted Post: No
Ministerial Post: No
Candidates have to submit their IB Security Assistant Executive 2025 Exam Online Application Form for the Intelligence Bureau along with the IB Assistant Security Exam Application Fee 2025.
Here you can find the detailed application fee for the IB Security Assistant Exam 2025:
SC/ST candidates, female candidates and eligible ex-servicemen are exempted from the ₹100 examination fee but must pay ₹550 as Recruitment Processing Charges.
Ex-servicemen already employed in Central Govt. Group ‘C’ posts after availing reservation benefits must pay both the ₹100 examination fee and ₹550 processing charges.
Any applicable banking charges for the IB Security Assistant Exam Application Fee 2025 are to be borne by the candidate.
IB Security Assistant Exam Centers 2025
Here candidates can find the IB Security Assistant Exam Centres for Tier 1 Online Exam to be held in 2025.
IB Security Assistant Exam Centres 2025 | |
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State/Union Territory | Exam Centres |
Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Port Blair |
Andhra Pradesh | Anantapur |
Guntur | |
Kadapa | |
Kakinada | |
Kurnool | |
Nellore | |
Rajahmundry | |
Tirupathi | |
Vijayawada | |
Visakhapatnam | |
Vizianagaram | |
Arunachal Pradesh | Naharlagun |
Assam | Dibrugarh |
Guwahati | |
Jorhat | |
Silchar | |
Tezpur | |
Bihar | Arrah |
Bhagalpur | |
Darbhanga | |
Muzaffarpur | |
Patna | |
Purnea | |
Chandigarh | Chandigarh/Mohali |
Chhattisgarh | Bhilai Nagar/Durg |
Bilaspur CG | |
Raipur | |
Delhi | Delhi/NCR |
Goa | Panaji |
Gujarat | Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar |
Anand | |
Mehsana | |
Rajkot | |
Surat | |
Vadodara | |
Haryana | Ambala |
Hisar | |
Himachal Pradesh | Bilaspur HP |
Baddi | |
Hamirpur | |
Kangra | |
Mandi | |
Shimla | |
Jammu and Kashmir | Jammu |
Samba | |
Srinagar | |
Jharkhand | Dhanbad |
Hazaribagh | |
Jamshedpur | |
Ranchi | |
Karnataka | Belagavi (Belgaum) |
Bengaluru | |
Hubballi (Hubli) | |
Mangaluru (Mangalore) | |
Mysuru (Mysore) | |
Shivamogga (Shimoga) | |
Udupi | |
Kerala | Ernakulam |
Kannur | |
Kollam | |
Kottayam | |
Kozhikode | |
Thiruvananthapuram | |
Thrissur | |
Ladakh | Leh |
Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal |
Gwalior | |
Indore | |
Jabalpur | |
Satna | |
Ujjain | |
Maharashtra | Amravati |
Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar | |
Jalgaon | |
Kolhapur | |
Latur | |
Mumbai MMR | |
Nagpur | |
Nanded | |
Nashik | |
Pune | |
Sangli | |
Satara | |
Solapur | |
Manipur | Imphal |
Meghalaya | Shillong |
Ri-Bhoi | |
Tura | |
Mizoram | Aizawl |
Nagaland | Dimapur |
Kohima | |
Odisha | Balasore |
Berhampur-Ganjam | |
Bhubaneswar | |
Cuttack | |
Dhenkanal | |
Rourkela | |
Sambalpur | |
Punjab | Amritsar |
Bathinda | |
Jalandhar | |
Ludhiana | |
Patiala | |
Rajasthan | Ajmer |
Bikaner | |
Jaipur | |
Jodhpur | |
Kota | |
Sikar | |
Udaipur | |
Sikkim | Gangtok |
Tamil Nadu | Chennai |
Coimbatore | |
Madurai | |
Salem | |
Tiruchirappalli | |
Tirunelveli | |
Vellore | |
Telangana | Hyderabad/Secunderabad |
Karimnagar | |
Khammam | |
Mahabubnagar | |
Warangal | |
Tripura | Agartala |
Uttar Pradesh | Agra |
Aligarh | |
Ayodhya | |
Bareilly | |
Gorakhpur | |
Jhansi | |
Kanpur | |
Lucknow | |
Mathura | |
Meerut | |
Moradabad | |
Muzaffarnagar | |
Prayagraj | |
Varanasi | |
Uttarakhand | Dehradun |
Haldwani | |
Roorkee | |
West Bengal | Asansol |
Burdwan | |
Durgapur | |
Kalyani | |
Kolkata | |
Siliguri |
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