Aspirants willing to appear in examination must fulfill all the essential eligibility criteria. The Gujarat Public Service Commission and state government team up to set the eligibility benchmarks. A candidate who fails to meet even one of the rules shall be debarred from appearing in the exam or even results are withheld.

• Must be a citizen of India
• A subject from Nepal
• A subject from Bhutan
• A person from Tibet can also appear only if he/she is a refugee from Tibet and permanently migrated from fiber to India with a motive to settle down before 1st January 1962.

A person with Indian origin and ancestry who migrated to India from Pakistan, (Bangladesh), Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia, and Vietnam.