Gujarat allows 15 KB — the tightest limit we have found anywhere. This gets you under it by resizing rather than by destroying the picture.
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| Dimensions | 3.6 cm wide × 5 cm tall — GPSC writes “5 cm x 3.6 cm” without stating the order |
|---|---|
| File size | 15 KB — no minimum is stated |
| Pixel size | Not stated |
| DPI | Not stated |
| Format | Not stated in the How to Apply document |
| Uploaded | On the single-page application form, along with everything else |
GPSC's wording: “Please upload the photograph in this section with the given dimension i.e. 5 cm x 3.6 cm and file size must be 15 KB.”
Set it beside the others: Kerala allows 30 KB, Punjab 40, Telangana 50 for a photograph, Odisha 150, Haryana 500. Gujarat allows 15 — and the same 15 for the signature.
That is genuinely hard for a photograph. There is no room to be generous with resolution, so this tool walks the pixel size down until the file fits rather than crushing JPEG quality until the face goes blocky, and it tells you the dimensions and the DPI it ended up at. If your photograph is busy — a patterned background, a lot of detail behind you — a plainer one will hold up much better at this size.
One wording note: GPSC says the file size “must be 15 KB” rather than “must not exceed 15 KB”. We read that as a ceiling, which is the safe interpretation — a file at or under the number satisfies both readings.
GPSC writes the photograph as “5 cm x 3.6 cm” and the signature as “2.5 cm x 7.5 cm”, and never says which figure is the width. That matters, because the two readings give opposite shapes.
Read height-first, both make sense: a photograph 3.6 cm wide and 5 cm tall — portrait, like any passport photo — and a signature 7.5 cm wide and 2.5 cm tall, which is the shape a signature actually is. Read width-first you would get a landscape photograph and a portrait signature, which is not what either object looks like.
So this tool uses 3.6 × 5 cm and 7.5 × 2.5 cm, and we are telling you that is a reading rather than something GPSC spelled out. If your advertisement states the order explicitly, follow the advertisement.
Worth knowing before you confirm, because the two statements point in opposite directions and we are not going to pick one for you.
| Item 2, in capitals | “The application can be edited till the last date and time of the advertisement even after confirmation.” |
|---|---|
| Items 6–18, repeated | “The data entered cannot be edited/changed/modified on the website once the application is confirmed.” — stated for gender, date of birth, state, district, taluka, pin code, mobile number and email |
| Items 38–40 | Describe an Edit flow through Online Application → Edit, using your Confirmation Number and Birth Date |
The practical advice is the same under either reading: get the photograph and signature right before you confirm. GPSC also asks applicants to restrain themselves from applying multiple times, so re-applying to fix an upload is not the intended route.
Unusually among the commissions we have covered, GPSC does not require one. Its document offers three routes: enter an existing OTR number and your details are filled in automatically, click New Registration to create one, or click Skip and apply directly. Telangana, Kerala, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh all make registration compulsory first; Gujarat treats it as a convenience.
The form itself is a single page — all details plus both uploads at one go — and you get an Application and Confirmation Number on screen immediately. Note them down; the Confirmation Number plus your birth date is what you need to edit or print later.
Two commissions use GPSC. This page is the Gujarat Public Service Commission at gpsc.gujarat.gov.in, in Gandhinagar, applying through gpsc-ojas.gujarat.gov.in. The Goa Public Service Commission is also GPSC, at gpsc.goa.gov.in in Panaji, and is a separate constitutional body with its own registration system and its own rules. Nothing here applies to Goa.
Within Gujarat, note that OJAS (ojas.gujarat.gov.in) is a shared state portal used by several recruiters, including GSSSB, the Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board, and GPSSB, the Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Board. GPSC runs its own instance of it. The document quoted on this page is GPSC's, and another board on the same portal may ask for something different.
Same application, different file. Each has its own limits — they are not interchangeable.
3.6 cm wide by 5 cm tall, and the file must be 15 KB. GPSC's How to Apply document writes the dimension as '5 cm x 3.6 cm' without saying which figure is the width - read height-first it describes a portrait photograph, which is what a passport photo is, so that is the reading this tool uses.
That is what the document says: the file size 'must be 15 KB'. It is the tightest ceiling we have come across - Kerala allows 30 KB, Punjab 40, Odisha 150, Haryana 500. GPSC's wording says 'must be' rather than 'must not exceed'; we read it as a ceiling, since a file at or under 15 KB satisfies either reading.
By reducing the pixel dimensions rather than crushing the JPEG quality. Quality-crushing is what makes a face go blocky and mottled; a smaller, cleanly resized image at decent quality looks far better at the same file size. That is what this tool does, and it reports the pixel size and DPI it ended up at. A plain background helps enormously - detail behind you costs bytes that your face needs.
None is stated. The document gives centimetres and a file size and nothing else - no pixel dimensions, no DPI, no format. Figures of 130 x 180 for the photograph circulate; they are one arbitrary choice of DPI, not GPSC's requirement.
No. GPSC states 15 KB and no floor, so nothing here is padded.
No, and this is unusual. GPSC's document offers three routes: enter your OTR number to auto-fill your details, click NEW REGISTRATION to create one, or click SKIP to apply directly without one. Several other commissions make one-time registration compulsory; GPSC treats it as a convenience.
GPSC's own document says both things. Item 2 states in capitals that the application can be edited till the last date even after confirmation, and an Edit flow is described using your Confirmation Number and Birth Date. But items 6 to 18 repeatedly state that the data entered cannot be edited once the application is confirmed. We are not going to resolve that for you - get the upload right before you confirm.
Gujarat. Both states have a Public Service Commission abbreviated GPSC. This page is Gujarat, at gpsc.gujarat.gov.in, applying through gpsc-ojas.gujarat.gov.in. Goa's is at gpsc.goa.gov.in and has its own separate rules. GPSC is also not GSSSB or GPSSB, which share the OJAS portal but are different recruiters.
No. The crop and the compression run in your browser on your own device. Your photograph is never transmitted.
Requirements on this page are quoted from “Instructions and Process for How to Apply”, published by the Gujarat Public Service Commission on its OJAS application portal gpsc-ojas.gujarat.gov.in. Commission site: gpsc.gujarat.gov.in. GPSC states centimetres and a 15 KB file size; it states no minimum, no DPI, no pixel dimensions, no image format and no ink colour, and it does not say whether its dimensions are width-first or height-first.
The document carries no version number or date and its screenshots reference an older advertisement, so check the advertisement you are applying under. It also contradicts itself on whether a confirmed application can be edited; both statements are quoted above rather than resolved. Pixel figures of 130×180 and 275×90 circulate for GPSC and are not in it.
This is the Gujarat Public Service Commission. Goa’s commission is also abbreviated GPSC (gpsc.goa.gov.in) and is a different body; GSSSB and GPSSB share Gujarat’s OJAS portal but recruit separately. We are not affiliated with any of them.