CSIR Assistant Section Officer ASO Online Form 2026

This page tracks CSIR Assistant Section Officer ASO Online Form 2026, a certificate verification schedule. The key figures are an application window closing 13 July 2026 and a fee of ₹500 for unreserved candidates. Everything below — dates, eligibility, fee and the official links — is set out in the order you will need it.

Applications open on 23 June 2026 and close on 13 July 2026, giving candidates 21 days to complete the process. At 21 days this is a normal-length window, but the fee and upload steps are the ones that fail late, so leave a few days of margin. The exam is currently shown for As per Schedule; treat this as provisional until the admit card confirms it.

The upper age limit for unreserved candidates is 33 years. On qualifications, the notification states: ASO — 61 — Bachelor Degree in Any Stream from Any Recognized University in India. Note : non-recommended candidates of Civil Services Examination 2024 (CSE-2024). If your degree is an equivalent under a different name, look for the equivalence clause in the official PDF before paying the fee — a form rejected for a qualification mismatch is not usually refundable.

SC / ST / PH / and All Category Female are exempt from the application fee under this notification. All fee-paying categories are charged the same ₹500. Payment is accepted via offline bank challan. Pay only through the official portal linked on this page; the fee is normally non-refundable once the form is submitted.

Document verification is where otherwise-successful candidates most often fall out, usually over a missing category certificate or a name mismatch across documents. Assemble originals plus self-attested photocopies well before the date, and get any discrepancy in spelling or date of birth corrected in advance — it cannot be resolved on the day.