Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) Veterinary Pharmacist Main Exam 2026 — 1,308 Posts, Diploma in Veterinary Pharmacy Required

The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC), Lucknow, has invited online applications from Indian citizens for the Veterinary Pharmacist Main Examination (PET-2025)/18 under Advertisement No. 18-Pariksha/2026, for 1,308 vacant Veterinary Pharmacist posts under the control of the Animal Husbandry Directorate (पशुपालन निदेशालय). Only candidates who appeared in the Preliminary Eligibility Test (PET) 2025 and received a scorecard from the Commission are eligible to apply — this notification does not open a fresh PET window. Shortlisting for the Main exam itself is based on PET-2025 normalized scores.

📅 Important Dates

⚠️ Special note from the source: if your fee payment isn't reconciled by the bank by 05-10-2026, you get exactly 7 more days — until 12-10-2026 — to get it reconciled. You cannot print your application form, and your application does not finally submit, until reconciliation is complete. No representation or claim will be accepted after 12-10-2026 under any circumstances.

📊 Category-Wise Vacancy Breakdown (Vertical Reservation)

✅ Row-sum verified: 576 + 237 + 6 + 359 + 130 = 1,308, matching the source's own grand total. Posts are a mix of Permanent & Temporary (स्थायी व अस्थायी).

Horizontal Reservation

Note: three PwBD sub-category columns (cerebral palsy/locomotor, autism/intellectual/mental illness, and multi-disability) are blank/illegible in the scanned source table — reproduced as blank rather than guessed. Separately, UP government orders cited in the notification (2021–2026) establish a general 4% horizontal PwBD reservation across Group-C/D posts, but this post-specific breakdown isn't fully legible.

🎓 Eligibility

Essential Qualification:

• High School and Intermediate (Biology) from the UP Board, or an equivalent exam recognized by the government.
• A 2-year 3-month Diploma in Veterinary Pharmacy from a university/institution established by law in India.
• Registration with the competent council/institution, if available.
• Working knowledge of Hindi in Devanagari script.

Registration note: the UP Animal Husbandry Department (letter dated 20-05-2026) has clarified that no Veterinary Pharmacy Council currently exists in Uttar Pradesh for Veterinary Pharmacist registration — so this specific registration requirement does not currently apply.

Preferential Qualification (used as a tie-breaker when candidates are otherwise equal): minimum 2 years' service in the Territorial Army, OR an NCC 'B' Certificate.

🎂 Age Limit

18 to 40 years, calculated as of 1 July of the calendar year in which the vacancies were advertised for direct recruitment. Age relaxation applies for SC/ST/OBC and other categories as notified by the UP government from time to time.

✅ Selection Process

Selection is by written examination only — no interview. Shortlisting for this Main exam is done category-wise at 15 times the advertised vacancies, based on PET-2025 normalized scores (to 2 decimal places), including every candidate tied at the cutoff. Candidates with a zero or negative PET-2025 score (absolute or normalized) are not shortlisted. Candidates flagged "Under Investigation" or "Provisional" in their PET-2025 result may apply conditionally, but their shortlisting and any final selection remain subject to the Commission's ongoing verification.

💰 Application Fee

Freedom fighter dependents, ex-servicemen, women, PwBD, and outstanding sportsperson candidates pay per their base category above — there's no separate fee slab for these groups. Separately, only candidates shortlisted for the Main exam will pay an additional Main-exam fee, due before admit-card download — the source states this requirement exists but does not state the amount; that will need to come from a future admit-card notice.

Payment modes: Credit Card, Debit Card, Internet Banking, UPI, or SBI e-Challan (payable at any SBI branch).

📝 How to Apply

📋 Document Checklist

Which Certificate Applies to You?

These certificates are issued and signed by an external authority — not filled and submitted by you directly to UPSSSC. Get them ready before applying; full specimen formats are in the official notification.

📚 Exam Pattern & Full Syllabus

One paper, 100 objective/MCQ questions, 100 marks, 2 hours (120 minutes). Each correct answer: 1 mark. Each wrong answer: 25% (¼ mark) negative marking. If held across multiple shifts/days, scores are normalized per the Commission's 22 May 2019 notice.

✅ Row-sum verified: Part-1's 15 sub-topics sum to 65 questions/65 marks; 65 + 15 + 20 = 100, matching the source's own total.

Detailed Syllabus

Part-1 (Subject Knowledge):

1. Anatomy of Livestock and Poultry: Skeletal system, major bones and joints; structural layout of digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems; location of uro-genital and nervous systems, sense organs, and superficial lymph nodes.
2. Introduction to Livestock Management: Basic terminology for managing cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, horses, camels, and pigs; animal housing design and daily routine management (grooming, washing, dipping, shearing); handling pregnant animals, newborn calf rearing, dehorning/castration methods.
3. Introduction to Livestock Breeds and Economic Traits: Identification of popular native, exotic, and crossbred livestock breeds; basic breeding systems (in-breeding vs. cross-breeding); maintaining farm records and farm economics.
4. Basics of Animal Nutrition and Health: Types of feeds, fodders, and balanced ration formulation; nutritional deficiencies and primary signs of poor health in farm animals.
5. Basics of Animal Physiology: Elementary knowledge of the physiological functions of various organs of livestock and poultry.
6. Basics of Clinical Pathology: Introduction to common laboratory tools and sterilization practices; routine sample processing including blood, urine, and fecal analysis.
7. Elementary Parasitology: Identification of common internal parasites (worms, flukes) and external parasites (ticks, mites, lice); parasite life cycles and common deworming schedules.
8. Fundamentals of Pharmacology: Basic classification of veterinary medicines and their sources; drug administration methods (oral, injections, ointments); dosage calculation, side effects, and storage rules.
9. Clinical Biochemistry & Introduction to Gynaecology: Understanding blood serum parameters; elementary knowledge of livestock reproduction and pregnancy diagnosis assistance.
10. Basics of Clinical Veterinary Medicine: Basic knowledge of livestock/poultry diseases; identification via physical examination and physiological parameters; general principles of disease prevention and control.
11. Veterinary Clinical Pharmacy: Compounding techniques (mixtures, lotions, ointments, powders, tinctures); dispensing science (labelling, reading prescriptions, packing medicines); inventory control (cold-chain management, expiry tracking, narcotic drug registers).
12. Preliminary Surgical Procedures: Introduction to surgical instruments, sterilization, and autoclave operations; preparing animals for surgery; wound dressing, bandaging, post-operative monitoring, suture care.
13. Pharmacist Jurisprudence: Laws governing the sale, storage, and distribution of animal medicines in India; code of ethics for a veterinary pharmacy practitioner.
14. Farm Management & Extensions: Daily hygiene and bio-security on a dairy/poultry farm; communicating health basics to farmers; helping organize animal health camps.
15. Hospital Practice Training: Complete hands-on training in a veterinary polyclinic setup; handling emergency cases, assisting during physical exams, managing pharmacy stock.

Part-2 (Computer & IT): History and application of computers, IT, Internet and WWW; hardware/software; input/output; Internet Protocol/IP address; IT gadgets; email creation and use; printer/tablet/mobile operation; MS-Word and MS-Excel essentials; operating systems, social networking, e-governance; digital financial tools; future skills and cyber security; technological developments (AI, Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Internet of Things) and India's achievements in this field.

Part-3 (Uttar Pradesh General Knowledge): History, culture, art, architecture, festivals, folk dance, literature, regional languages, heritage, social customs and tourism, geographical landscape and environment, natural resources, climate, soil, forest, wildlife, mines and minerals, economy, agriculture, industry, business and employment, polity and administration, and current events/achievements of Uttar Pradesh across various fields.

ℹ️ Key Candidate Instructions

The notification carries 29 numbered general instructions (11.01–11.29), most of them standard UPSSSC procedural boilerplate repeated across advertisements. Compressing to the genuinely distinct/high-stakes ones (full text is in the official PDF):

• Only UP domicile residents get reservation benefit — non-domiciled candidates are treated as Unreserved.
• A candidate can claim only one reservation category, whichever is more beneficial, if eligible for more than one.
• For women candidates, the caste certificate must be issued based on the father's side lineage.
• EWS certificate must be obtained specifically between 01-04-2026 and 05-10-2026, based on FY 2025-26 income, valid for FY 2026-27.
• Ex-servicemen must have retired on or before the application last date (05-10-2026) to claim the reservation.
• Outstanding Sportsperson candidates must submit a certificate from a competent authority per UP's 2022 Sportsperson Direct Recruitment Rules.
• Married male candidates with more than one living wife, or women married to such men, are ineligible unless exempted by the Governor.
• Application corrections are allowed only until 12-10-2026; no correction request is entertained after that under any circumstances.
• Providing false information, or being unable to prove claimed facts with valid certificates, can lead to rejection and debarment (DEBAR) from this and future Commission exams/selections — malpractice, impersonation, or bigamy are explicitly covered.
• The Commission does not correspond individually with candidates — all updates are posted on the official website, which candidates must check regularly.
• The Commission's decision on eligibility/ineligibility is final.

📞 Contact & Signatory

The notification is issued by the Secretary, Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission, Lucknow — no individual name or direct phone/email is given for the signatory beyond the Commission's general channels:

• Address: PICUP Bhawan, 3rd Floor, Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow – 226010
• Website: upsssc.gov.in
• Email: online.upsssc@nic.in

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