Karnataka Village Administrative Officer

Checked 11 September 2026. The 2026 round is between its Kannada test and its papers. Notified on 10 July 2026, it took applications from 11 July with a closing date of 30 July, extended on 29 July to 7 August and on 6 August to 20 August, with fee payment finally to 26 August at four in the afternoon; a clarification of 19 August admitted holders of the government tool room diploma. The Kannada language test was held on 22 August with the key the same day, a revised key on 25 August and the final score list on 2 September. Paper 1 is on 4 October 2026 from 10.30 to 12.30 and Paper 2 from 2.30 to 4.30 for the residual cadre; the Kalyana Karnataka papers are on 25 October by KEA’s examination calendar of 15 August. No litigation notice appears on either KEA page.

The arrangement is set out in the notification’s own words: the deputy commissioner is the appointing authority, KEA conducts the competitive examination and forwards district-wise merit lists to government, which passes them to the deputy commissioners, who complete the recruitment. In the 2024 round Hassan district published its one-to-three provisional list on 23 December 2024, its one-to-one list on 15 January 2025 and its final list on 27 January — the sequence every district follows, on its own website, after KEA’s final score list.

The 2026 posts are distributed by district in the residual notification — Belagavi 61, Chikkaballapura 39, Vijayapura 34, down to Bengaluru Urban 3 — with the category roster for each in a separate classification document, and the three Kalyana Karnataka districts in their own notification. The candidate chooses one district at application and cannot compete elsewhere; the choice is the first strategic decision, because the cut-off is the district’s, not the state’s.

Checked 11 September 2026 against the residual and Kalyana Karnataka notifications of 10 July 2026 and their classification documents, KEA’s extension and clarification notes of 29 July, 6, 19 and 25 August, the examination calendar of 15 August, the Kannada test note of 11 August and score note of 2 September, the 2024 notification and final score-list note, and Hassan district’s 2024 recruitment page. The notifications are in Kannada and the district figures and dates were read from them; the category rosters and the horizontal-reservation percentages were not transcribed. No litigation appears on KEA’s pages for either round.