GDS Merit List 2026 Schedule-II List-I: Marks by Circle, DV Date

India Post has published List-I of shortlisted candidates for GDS Online Engagement Schedule-II, July 2026, under notification 17-12/2026-GDS dated 20 August 2026. The lists went up on 12 October 2026, one PDF per postal circle, on indiapost.gov.in/gdsonlineengagement.

If you are on the list, the date that matters is 27 October 2026. That is the last day to get your documents verified at the Divisional Office.

What was released

Each circle's List-I has the same columns:

There is no written test or interview. Being on the list means your Class 10 marks put you first among the applicants who chose that post. It is not final selection. That depends on document verification.

How to find your name

1. Open indiapost.gov.in/gdsonlineengagement and find the Schedule-II, July 2026 List-I link.
2. Choose the circle where you applied. That means the circle of the division you selected, not the board where you studied.
3. Search the PDF for your registration number (it starts with G26 for this cycle). Names are not printed, so searching by name will not work.
4. Note the Division, Office, Post ID and Post Name next to it.

The notice says shortlisted candidates are also told by SMS and email. It also says India Post is not responsible if the message does not arrive, so check the PDF yourself.

There is no single GDS cut-off

This is the most common misunderstanding about GDS results. You applied to one division and ranked posts within it. The system then filled each post, a single Post ID with a fixed community, with the highest-scoring eligible applicant who had chosen it, following the preference order.

The notice gives an example. If you are top of the merit for two of your posts, you are offered the one higher in your own preference order. You are then dropped from the rest.

So a "cut-off" for a circle or state is really thousands of separate cut-offs, one per post. The figure next to each selected candidate in List-I is the cut-off for that post in List-I. Any website quoting a single "UP GDS cut-off 2026" is averaging those figures.

What the List-I marks look like

We read the official List-I pages for four circles on 15 October 2026. The figures below come only from the rows we could read cleanly from the published lists. They are not the complete lists, and the lowest figure we saw is not an official cut-off. India Post's West Bengal circle also covers the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Sikkim, and the Tamil Nadu circle covers Puducherry, so those posts are in the same lists.

How many shortlisted candidates had exactly 100 percent:

Average and lowest marks for UR, OBC and SC posts, in the rows we read:

What this means for you:

• In UP and Bihar, a 100 percent Class 10 score was close to the entry ticket for UR and OBC posts in List-I. Candidates in the high 90s can still be selected through later lists, when toppers fail to report or join.
• Tamil Nadu and West Bengal spread much wider. ST posts in West Bengal went down to 84.4 percent in the rows we read, and EWS posts in Tamil Nadu to 88.6 percent.
• Reserved posts are where lower scores get through. Across all four circles, the lowest marks we saw were on ST, EWS and PwBD posts.

Why a CGPA 10 can lose to 96 percent

Para 8 of the notice sets out how Class 10 results are converted:

• Where the marksheet shows marks, those marks are used.
• Where it shows only grades or CGPA, each grade point is multiplied by 9.5. A CGPA of 10 becomes 95 percent. If both CGPA and subject grades are shown, the higher result is used.
• Boards that print both a percentage and grade points, like the Delhi Board of School Education, are read on the percentage.
• Tamil Nadu State Board pass certificates from 2020-21, which carry no marks, are counted at a flat 66.67 percent.
• Merit is worked out to four decimal places.

So a grade-only marksheet tops out at 95 percent. In the UP and Bihar rows we read, the lowest UR mark was 99.2 percent or higher, so a candidate with a CGPA of 10 did not reach a UR post in List-I there.

Ties are broken first by age, with the older candidate placed higher. After that, the notice fixes an order by community and gender. It starts with ST trans-woman, ST female, SC trans-woman and SC female, and ends with UR trans-male and UR male.

Document verification by 27 October

Report to the Divisional Office of the division where you were selected, not your home division, within 15 days of shortlisting. For List-I that means by 27 October 2026. If you miss it, the portal marks you "Non-turned up", blocks verification and cancels your candidature automatically.

Carry originals plus two sets of self-attested photocopies of:

• Class 10 marksheet
• Identity proof
• Date of birth proof
• Caste certificate, if you applied against a reserved post
• EWS certificate, valid on the last date of application
• PwBD certificate, if claimed
• Transgender certificate, if claimed
• Medical certificate from a medical officer of a government hospital, dispensary or primary health centre. This is compulsory, and unlike your marksheet it is not something you already have at home. Get it this week.
• For posts in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Goa or Nagaland, the certificate of knowledge of the local language or dialect

At engagement you will also sign undertakings that you can use a computer or smartphone, can ride a bicycle or two-wheeler, and have other means of livelihood. These are Annexures VI, VII and VIII of the notice. BPM candidates must also provide accommodation for the branch office and live in the post village.

After verification

1. If your documents match, the system issues an offer of provisional engagement at once.
2. You then have 30 days to finish the pre-engagement formalities. These include 3 days of basic training and, for BPMs, arranging the office accommodation.
3. You join on a provisional engagement order while the issuing boards and authorities verify your certificates and the police check your antecedents.
4. The final engagement order follows once those reports are in.

India Post may verify your Class 10 marksheet through DigiLocker or API Setu. Any mismatch at any stage can end the engagement.

Pay is the Time Related Continuity Allowance (TRCA), plus dearness allowance:

Not in List-I?

The notice says India Post issues supplementary lists against List-I candidates who:

• do not report for verification in time,
• fail verification,
• do not finish joining formalities within 30 days, or
• decline, resign or fail to join within 30 days of the offer.

Every List-I candidate who drops out at one of these stages frees a post for the next candidate on merit. How far later lists go down depends on how many drop out, and the notice gives no estimate.

The process closes on 31 December 2026. The notice says no list of shortlisted candidates will be issued after that date. Keep checking your circle's page on the GDS portal for List-II.