Jharkhand's OTR wants 10–200 KB in .jpg at a minimum of 200 DPI — and states no pixel size at all. Not the 15–25 KB you were told.
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| File size | Between 10 KB and 200 KB — a floor as well as a ceiling |
|---|---|
| Format | .jpg |
| Resolution | Minimum 200 DPI |
| Dimensions | Not stated — no pixels, no centimetres, anywhere |
| Colour | Coloured — black and white is not offered as an option |
| Age | Not older than three months |
| Background | Plain light — from the guide's summary, not the upload screen |
The Commission's wording on the upload screen: “A recent coloured passport photograph, not older than three months must be scanned and uploaded in the earmarked space in the online application”, and “The photograph should have a minimal resolution of 200 DPI (dots per inch) and be in JPG format, The file size should be between 10KB and 200KB”.
Search for JPSC photo requirements and you will be told 15–25 KB for the photograph and 10–15 KB for the signature, on coaching sites, news write-ups and form-filling guides alike. The Commission's own upload screen says 10–200 KB and 4–30 KB.
The photograph band is twenty times wider than the one being published, and its floor is lower, not higher. This is worth being precise about, because the usual scare framing does not apply: nobody is having an application rejected over this. A 15–25 KB photograph sits comfortably inside 10–200 KB and uploads fine. What actually happens is that candidates crush a perfectly good photograph down to a quarter of the size Jharkhand allows, and then it is that flattened image that gets printed on the admit card and looked at across a table.
The figures look stale rather than invented. A JPSC guidelines table published for the Civil Services Mains in June 2024 — a form that predates the OTR portal — carries wording very close to today's, and 15–25 KB with it. The likeliest story is that those numbers were right for that form and have simply been copied forward past the migration to One Time Registration. That is the ordinary way exam specifications go bad, and it is why every figure on this page is quoted against the document it came from.
JPSC asks for a minimal resolution of 200 DPI (dots per inch) on both uploads. DPI is a measure of pixels per unit of physical length, so on its own it says nothing about a digital file — you need a physical size before it means anything. The same 600-pixel-wide image is 200 DPI at three inches and 100 DPI at six.
And Jharkhand states no physical size anywhere. Not centimetres, not pixels, not an aspect ratio. “Passport photograph” is the only size word in the whole instruction and it is never defined. So the honest position is that 200 DPI cannot be converted into a pixel target from what JPSC has published, and any site that hands you an exact pixel size for JPSC has supplied the missing half itself without telling you.
Compare Uttar Pradesh, which also says 200 DPI: UPPSC states the centimetres as well, so its pixel size follows exactly and there is nothing to guess. Jharkhand gives you one half of the equation.
There is still something concrete to do about it, and almost nobody does it. A JPEG carries its own declared density in a JFIF header. Browsers and resizers that build a JPEG from a canvas write “1:1, no units” there — the file declares no resolution at all, and anything that reads it will assume 72 DPI or give up. This tool writes a real density into that header, so the file you upload actually states a resolution of at least 200 DPI rather than merely being big enough to have one.
The OTR guide carries the Commission's upload-screen instruction as a screenshot, and then the guide's author summarises it in prose a couple of inches below. The two overlap but neither contains the other, so it is worth knowing which is which.
Only the upload screen states the file sizes, the 200 DPI minimum and the three-month recency limit. Only the prose summary mentions a plain light background, proper lighting, no filters, and a face that is front-facing, centred and clearly visible. This page attributes each rule to the text it came from rather than blending them into one list, because the upload screen is what you actually read while uploading and the summary is a gloss on it.
Jharkhand runs a One Time Registration. The photograph and signature go into your OTR profile, and the Commission's own wording is that applicants need to upload their photo and signature only once, after which they populate automatically into every JPSC notification you apply under. They stay editable — the portal says personal details along with photo and signature are accessible and editable 24×7.
That cuts both ways. Getting it right once covers every future application; getting it wrong once follows you into all of them until you go back and fix it.
One thing worth knowing before you go looking for the portal: JPSC's OTR runs at jpscotr.com — a .com, not a .gov.in, with a helpdesk at helpdesk@jpscotr.com. It is genuinely the Commission's: jpsc.gov.in links to it by name from the left-hand rail of every page. We mention it because a state recruitment portal on a .com address is exactly the shape a phishing site takes, and the right way to reach it is by following the link from jpsc.gov.in rather than trusting a URL in a search result — including ours.
JPSC is the Jharkhand Public Service Commission at jpsc.gov.in — Combined Civil Services, Assistant Conservator of Forest, Forest Range Officer, Medical Officer and the rest. JSSC, the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission at jssc.nic.in, is a different body running CGL, Lady Supervisor and its own examinations under its own upload rules. Both are “Jharkhand”, the abbreviations differ by one letter, and the figures on this page are JPSC's only. We have not checked JSSC's and do not publish them.
Nor is this JKPSC, the Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission.
Same application, different file. Each has its own limits — they are not interchangeable.
Between 10 KB and 200 KB, in JPG, at a minimum resolution of 200 DPI. It must be a recent coloured passport photograph not older than three months. JPSC states no pixel dimensions and no centimetres anywhere, so there is no official pixel size to give you.
No. The OTR upload screen says the file size should be between 10 KB and 200 KB. The 15 to 25 KB figure is published very widely but appears to come from a pre-OTR Mains 2024 form and has been copied forward. It will not get you rejected, because it sits inside the real band, but it means compressing your photograph far harder than Jharkhand asks you to.
JPSC does not say, and we will not pretend otherwise. This tool works to 3.5 by 4.5 cm, the standard Indian passport size, because JPSC does say passport photograph. At 200 DPI that is 276 by 354 pixels; we output at twice that and declare the density accordingly, so the print size stays 3.5 by 4.5 cm and the resolution is comfortably above the floor. That arithmetic is ours, not the Commission's.
Through the JFIF density header inside the JPEG. Most browser-based resizers build the file from a canvas, which writes no density at all, so the file declares no resolution. This tool writes a real dots-per-inch value into that header. It does not resample your image to fake resolution - the pixels are what they are, and if your source is too small to be 200 DPI at passport size, the page tells you instead of upscaling.
Yes. JPSC's wording is a recent coloured passport photograph. Some commissions - Himachal, Andhra - explicitly accept black and white. Jharkhand does not, so this page checks whether your image reads as near-greyscale and warns you.
Not older than three months. That is stated on the upload screen. Nothing in a file proves its age, so no tool can check it for you - but it is a stated rule and worth taking seriously, particularly since the OTR photograph is reused across every JPSC application you make afterwards.
The upload screen says nothing about background. The guide's prose summary asks for a plain light background with proper lighting and no filters. We report that as coming from the summary rather than from the upload instruction, because they are different texts and only one of them is what you see while uploading.
No. JPSC is the Jharkhand Public Service Commission at jpsc.gov.in. JSSC is the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission at jssc.nic.in, a separate body with its own examinations and its own upload rules, which we have not checked. Do not carry these figures across.
No. The crop, the colour check and the compression all run in your browser on your own device. Your photograph is never transmitted.
No. Jharkhand uses a One Time Registration, and the Commission's wording is that applicants upload their photo and signature only once. It then populates into every JPSC application you make afterwards, and stays editable.
Yes, despite the .com address. It is linked by name from jpsc.gov.in on every page. Reach it by following that link rather than trusting a search result, including this one — a state recruitment portal on a .com is exactly the shape a phishing site takes.
No. The instructions state plainly not to use a photograph taken by selfie. They also rule out caps, hats and dark glasses, while permitting religious head coverings that do not cover the face.
It could. These are the OTR profile requirements. An individual recruitment advertisement can restate or override them, so check the one you are applying under.
Specifications on this page are taken from the One Time Registration user guide published by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission — specifically from the Commission's own Instruction for photograph and Instruction for signature panel, which the guide reproduces from the Sign & Photo step of the portal:
The guide carries no version number and no date. It also contradicts itself on ink colour: the upload screen it reproduces says black ink, while its own prose summary allows black or dark blue. We treat the upload screen as operative and say so on the page rather than resolving it silently.
JPSC states no pixel or centimetre dimensions for either upload, so any pixel figure here is our arithmetic from a standard passport size and is labelled as such. The 15–25 KB and 10–15 KB figures circulating for JPSC are not the Commission's; its upload screen states 10–200 KB and 4–30 KB.
These are OTR profile requirements, reused across applications; an individual advertisement may state something different, so check the one you are applying under. This is JPSC (Jharkhand Public Service Commission), not JSSC (Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission, jssc.nic.in) and not JKPSC. We are not affiliated with any of them.