The Rajiv Gandhi Career Portal is Rajasthan’s official career-guidance website for school students, launched by the state’s school education department with support from UNICEF. Students of Classes 9 to 12 log in with a unique ID issued through their school and explore careers, colleges, courses, scholarships and entrance-test information in one place. The official address is rajcareerportal.com — though, as of late July 2026, the site has been intermittently unreachable, so this guide also covers what to do when it will not open.
What Is the Rajiv Gandhi Career Portal?
Most school students choose streams and courses on hearsay — a cousin’s advice, a neighbour’s opinion. Rajasthan built this portal to replace hearsay with information. Launched in 2019 by the Department of School Education, Government of Rajasthan, with technical support from UNICEF, it made Rajasthan the first state in the country to give every secondary-school student a personal career-guidance login.
The portal is a library, not an application counter. You do not apply for anything on it — no admissions, no forms, no payments. You read, compare and shortlist. According to UNICEF’s published description of the platform, students with a personalised login can access 560+ career options (in English, Hindi and eight other languages), details of around 25,000 colleges and vocational institutes covering over 3 lakh courses, about 1,200 scholarships and roughly 1,150 entrance tests.
The portal is also known simply as the Raj Career Portal or Rajasthan career portal. Despite occasional rumours, there is no record of it being renamed — archived copies show it running under its original name as recently as December 2025.
Who Can Use It?
- Students of Classes 9 to 12 in Rajasthan schools. This is the core audience. Government-school students get IDs generated from the state’s school database; schools can also enrol their students where applicable.
- Parents. The login belongs to the student, but the comparisons — course costs, college options, scholarship eligibility — are exactly what parents ask about.
- Teachers and career counsellors. Rajasthan has trained teachers specifically to guide students through the portal, and schools use it in career-guidance sessions.
If you are not a Rajasthan school student, you cannot create an account yourself — there is no open sign-up. Access flows through schools.
How to Log In: Step by Step
The portal’s login is deliberately simple, because it was designed for students who may be using it in a school computer lab.
- Open rajcareerportal.com in any browser.
- Click the student login option.
- Enter your unique ID. For government-school students this ID is derived from the school’s records in the state education database — the same system behind the Shala Darpan portal — combined with your student registration details.
- Enter the password. Schools issue a simple default password when the ID is created; your class teacher or the school’s Shala Darpan in-charge will confirm it.
- Sign in, and change the default password if the option is offered — a default everyone knows is not really a password.
Do not try to guess your unique ID. It is generated at the school’s end, and the class teacher can look it up in minutes. If you have moved schools, ask your current school — the ID follows your current enrolment records.
What You Need Before Logging In
There is no document upload on the portal, so the checklist is short:
- Your unique student ID, collected from your class teacher or the school office.
- The school-issued password for first login.
- Your class and stream details, because the portal tailors suggestions to where you are — a Class 9 student sees stream-selection guidance, a Class 12 student sees college and entrance-test information.
- A notebook, honestly. The portal’s value is in comparison — noting three or four careers, their required courses and their scholarship options side by side.
What You Will Find Inside
Once logged in, the content is organised into a few big libraries:
- Careers. Profiles of professions — what the work involves, which subjects lead to it, what the study path looks like. This is the portal’s heart, and the profiles are available in Hindi as well as English.
- Colleges and courses. Searchable information on colleges and vocational institutes across the country and the courses they run, so a student in a small town can compare institutions without travelling anywhere.
- Entrance tests. Information pages about admission tests for different courses — eligibility, patterns and timelines — so students know what a given path requires before committing to it.
- Scholarships. A directory of scholarships with eligibility details, which matters enormously in a state where fees decide choices. Cross-check anything you shortlist against the official government scheme lists, because scholarship rules change year to year.
- Vocational options. Skill-based courses for students who want employable training rather than a conventional degree route.
A sensible one-hour session: pick two careers you are curious about, read both profiles, list the courses they require, then check which nearby colleges offer those courses and what scholarships would apply. That single exercise puts you ahead of most stream-selection conversations.
If the Portal Will Not Open: Current Status and Troubleshooting
Here is the honest picture. As of late July 2026, rajcareerportal.com has been returning server errors — the site is hosted behind a protection layer and the server behind it has been unreachable at times. Archived snapshots confirm the portal was live and normal in December 2025, and there is no official announcement of it being shut down or renamed. Treat outages as technical, not terminal, and try again after some time.
While you wait, or if problems persist:
- Try again later, on a different network. Server-side outages resolve on their own; nothing on your device causes or fixes them.
- Ask your school. Teachers using the portal in guidance sessions will know the current working route, and schools receive department instructions if anything changes officially.
- Use the Shala Darpan route for anything ID-related. Your unique ID and school records live in the state education database; the Shala Darpan login guide covers that system.
- Login fails but the site opens? Re-check the ID with your class teacher — a mistyped school code is the usual culprit — and confirm whether the school reset the default password.
- Need government services in the meantime? Career guidance is unaffected by this, but for certificates and scholarships-related documents, keep digital copies in DigiLocker so applications elsewhere are never held up.
Fees and Timelines at a Glance
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Portal login and usage | Free — IDs are issued through schools at no cost, and no service on the portal involves payment |
| Who issues the login | Your school, using the state education database that also powers Shala Darpan |
| Run by | Department of School Education, Government of Rajasthan, with UNICEF support |
| Launched | 2019 — the first state career-guidance portal of its kind in India, per UNICEF |
| Content scale | 560+ careers, ~25,000 colleges and institutes, 3 lakh+ courses, ~1,200 scholarships, ~1,150 entrance tests (UNICEF figures) |
| Languages | English, Hindi and eight other languages, per UNICEF |
| Current status | Official URL rajcareerportal.com; site intermittently unreachable as of July 2026, last archived live in December 2025 |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the official website of the Rajiv Gandhi Career Portal?
The official address is rajcareerportal.com. There is no record of the portal being renamed, though the site has had spells of downtime in 2026. If it does not open, retry later and confirm the current position with your school.
How do I get my Rajiv Gandhi Career Portal login ID?
From your school. The unique ID is generated from the state’s school-records system, and your class teacher or the school’s records in-charge can tell you your ID and the initial password. There is no self-registration on the portal.
Is there any fee for using the portal?
No. The login is issued free through schools, and everything inside — career profiles, college listings, scholarship and entrance-test information — is free to read. Anyone charging money for “registration” on this portal is misleading you.
Which classes is the portal meant for?
It is designed for students of Classes 9 to 12 in Rajasthan. Class 9–10 students mainly use it for stream selection, while Class 11–12 students use the college, course, scholarship and entrance-test libraries.
Can I apply to colleges or scholarships directly through the portal?
No. It is an information and guidance platform, not an application portal. Use it to shortlist options, then apply through the concerned college, scholarship authority or admission body’s own website.
Is the content available in Hindi?
Yes. According to UNICEF, career content on the platform is available in English, Hindi and eight other languages, which is one reason schools across Rajasthan can use it in regular classrooms.
What should I do if my login password does not work?
Ask your school to check whether the default password was changed or reset. Schools control the IDs, so a two-minute conversation with the class teacher resolves most login problems — do not create lookalike accounts on unofficial websites.
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