Maharashtra Talathi

Checked 11 September 2026. No Talathi window is open. The 1,539 Village Revenue Officer posts were added to MPSC’s Group C combined examination by the corrigendum of 22 July 2026, with applications to 5 August and the fee to 8 August; a further corrigendum of 5 August dealt with the posts in scheduled areas under PESA and the children of disabled and deceased ex-servicemen. The preliminary is on 3 January 2027 by the commission’s press note of 9 September 2026, and the mains date of 27 December 2026 is to be re-announced. The district-wise split of the posts has not been published. No 2025 Talathi recruitment took place, and the revenue department’s own sites no longer link the 2023 examination section.

The 2023 advertisement of 26 June 2023 is the last document written for the post alone, and it describes the job’s entry conditions as the department sees them: a degree of a recognised university under the rules of July 2010, knowledge of Marathi with the state board’s Marathi or Hindi test to be passed after selection if neither was taken at SSC, a computer certificate under the 2013 resolution or within two years of appointment, and a domicile certificate for any reservation claimed. Applications ran from 26 June to 17 July 2023 at ₹1,000, or ₹900 for reserved categories and the scheduled-area posts, and the test was held online from 17 August to 14 September 2023 at 36 district centres.

What followed made the 2026 change. The test drew over ten lakh applicants and about 8.6 lakh candidates across fifty-seven sessions; server faults delayed sessions and drew a probe; the result of January 2024, normalised across sessions under a formula the department published, produced a candidate with 214 of 200 marks and a demand from the leader of the opposition for a special investigation; the department clarified, revised the result in March 2024 and revised the selection list, and objections to questions went to the High Court’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar bench. The waiting list’s validity was extended to September 2025 for the court cases and the election code. The 2026 posts went to the commission.

The 2023 advertisement set the same degree and language conditions with age 18 to 38 and 18 to 43 plus a two-year relaxation for advertisements before the end of 2023, and required a domicile certificate to claim any reservation. Pay level S-8, ₹25,500 to ₹81,100, under the new pension scheme.

Checked 11 September 2026 against MPSC’s Advt 017/2026, its corrigenda of 16 and 22 July and 5 August 2026 and the press note of 9 September 2026 read on the commission’s site, and the revenue department’s Talathi advertisement of 26 June 2023 on the Mahabhumi portal. The course of the 2023 recruitment after the examination — the server faults, the normalised score above the maximum, the revised result and the court matters — is from press reports of the time and the department’s own clarification, and the completion of its appointments was not found in an official document.