# UP home guard drive selects 41,424 candidates 2026-10-03T21:51:17+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board on Saturday, 3 October 2026, declared the final selection result for the 2025 home guard enrolment drive, with 41,424 candidates selected across 75 districts. Of these, 8,502 are from the unreserved category, including 6,950 under EWS, while 21,580 belong to OBC, 10,932 to SC and 410 to ST categories. The list includes 8,290 women. Over 25.32 lakh candidates applied. The selection process included a written examination, document verification, physical standard test and physical efficiency test. RFID technology was used for the running test, and CCTV surveillance was deployed at all venues. Selected candidates will now undergo medical and police verification, with training expected to begin by late November or early December. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The selection of 41,424 home guards from over 25 lakh applicants underscores the scale of UP's recruitment machinery. The use of RFID and CCTV aims to address transparency concerns in a process that saw objections to provisional answer keys resolved by a final key in June. The next step for selected candidates is medical and police verification, followed by training commencement by end-November or early December. Individual normalised scores will be available on the board's website from the last week of October. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Straight factual report of the selection result and process This brief was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Home Guard, UPPRPB, Uttar Pradesh Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/up-home-guard-drive-selects-41424-candidates/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/up-home-guard-drive-selects-41424-candidates/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/