Nepal Government Jobs: Lok Sewa Aayog, Police, Army and Teacher Recruitment Explained

A government job in Nepal does not run through one gatekeeper. Lok Sewa Aayog is the central civil service commission and the largest single recruiter, but teachers, police, army personnel and central bank staff are each hired by a separate body running its own written exam and its own selection calendar. Knowing which body recruits for the post you want is the first thing to settle, before you look at any syllabus.

Lok Sewa Aayog is the civil service commission

Lok Sewa Aayog, the Public Service Commission, has been a constitutional body since 15 June 1951 and runs recruitment for Nepal’s civil service through psc.gov.np. It hires across three qualification tiers that map directly to the education system: Kharidar for SLC/SEE (10th grade) holders, Nayab Subba for 10+2 or Intermediate holders, and Section Officer and the gazetted technical cadres, Engineering, Agriculture, Health officer-level and Foreign Service, for Bachelor’s degree holders. Every one of these runs on competitive written exams, not on interviews alone. The scale is genuinely large: the commission’s own annual report put its combined examinee count across every exam it ran in FY 2081/82 (2024/25) at 190,954. That figure is an aggregate across the whole year’s recruitment, not the count for any single exam, but it gives a sense of how central this one commission is to Nepal’s government hiring.

Teacher Service Commission runs its own recruitment

The Teacher Service Commission, Shikshak Sewa Aayog, is a separate body from Lok Sewa Aayog. It recruits teachers and administers the Teaching License exam that is a prerequisite for a teaching post. One recent round advertised 4,462 vacancies for Primary Level Teachers. If you are aiming for a teaching career, the Teacher Service Commission exam is the track to follow, and Lok Sewa Aayog’s own recruitment cycles are not the relevant ones for that goal.

The security forces each run their own exam

Nepal Police recruits constables and technical constables through its own written exam and physical standards, covered on the Nepal Police Constable page. Nepal Army hires soldiers through Sainya recruitment, its own selection process distinct from both Police and Lok Sewa Aayog, covered on the Nepal Army Sainya page. The Armed Police Force, a separate paramilitary force from Nepal Police, runs its own constable recruitment, covered on the Armed Police Force Constable page. None of these three shares an application process, an eligibility list or an exam calendar with the others, despite all three sitting under the general heading of security forces.

Nepal Rastra Bank hires for the central bank

Nepal Rastra Bank, the central bank, recruits at officer and assistant level through its own recruitment process, separate again from Lok Sewa Aayog and from the commercial banking sector. Details of that process are on the Nepal Rastra Bank Recruitment page.

How to work out which track is yours

Start from what you actually hold and what you actually want, in this order:

1. Match your qualification to a tier. SEE alone opens Kharidar-level Lok Sewa Aayog posts and constable-level police, army and armed police posts. 10+2 opens Nayab Subba. A Bachelor’s degree opens Section Officer and the gazetted technical cadres.
2. Decide whether you want a civil post, a teaching post, a uniformed post, or a banking post. These are not ranked by difficulty against each other; they lead to different careers with different service conditions, and clearing one does not carry over to another.
3. Confirm the current vacancy and eligibility notice for the specific exam, since vacancy numbers, age limits and application windows change with every recruitment cycle.

Confirm against the notification, always

Every qualification tier and every recruiting body described here reflects the structure Nepal’s government recruitment runs on, not a promise about any single year’s cycle. Before committing preparation time to any of these exams, read the eligibility section of the current notification on the conducting body’s own site. Each exam page linked above links to that notification for exactly this reason.