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The zilla parishads are Maharashtra’s largest rural employer, and their Group C cadres — gram sevaks, health workers and supervisors, pharmacists, junior engineers and civil engineering assistants, junior assistants and stenographers, livestock supervisors, laboratory technicians and the extension officers for agriculture, panchayats and statistics — are recruited district by district by each parishad’s selection board, under one government sanction and on one examination run by one agency. There is no interview, no re-evaluation, and no copy of the paper.
The 2023 round was the first in years and the largest. Under the rural development department’s resolution of 15 November 2022, every parishad advertised in August 2023 for 80 per cent of its direct-recruitment vacancies — about 19,000 posts across the 34 — with applications through IBPS at ₹1,000, an online test of 200 marks in October 2023 and, for the health and gram sevak cadres, in June and July 2024. Three years on, the parishads are still publishing additional selection and waiting lists from those merit lists, and no 2025 or 2026 round has been sanctioned.
Maharashtra Zilla Parishad Posts · checked 19 September 2026
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Checked 19 September 2026
Additional selection and waiting lists still being published in 2026; no new round sanctioned
₹1,000; ₹900 for backward classes and orphans; ex-servicemen exempt; per post
District selection boards of the 34 zilla parishads, under the rural development department’s sanction
2023 — advertised 5 August 2023; about 19,000 Group C posts; examined October 2023 and June to July 2024
Notification
Checked 11 September 2026. No zilla parishad recruitment is open, and no statewide sanction for a 2025 or 2026 round appears in the rural development department’s circulars or resolutions, read to 5 August 2026, or on the recruitment pages of the parishads checked; the department has made no official statement on a next round, and the vacancy figures circulating are compilations. The 2023 round continues to close: Raigad published additional selection and waiting lists for senior and junior assistants, civil engineering assistants, junior engineers, livestock supervisors and contract gram sevaks on 23 December 2025, for health workers on 23 March 2026 and for contract gram sevaks again on 14 August 2026; Kolhapur’s health worker lists came on 30 October 2025 and 30 July 2026; Nashik revised its health worker list on 4 May 2026. The Nagpur bench of the High Court dismissed the GNM and BSc nursing candidates’ petitions on 27 March 2026.
| Event | Detail |
|---|---|
| Sanction | Rural development department resolution of 15 November 2022 — 80 per cent of Group C direct-recruitment vacancies, excluding drivers and Group D, through the district selection boards, to 15 August 2023 |
| Advertisements | By each parishad, August 2023 — Sangli 754 posts in 17 cadres; about 19,000 across the 34 |
| Applications | 5 to 25 August 2023 through IBPS; ₹1,000, ₹900 for backward classes and orphans, ex-servicemen exempt; per post |
| Age on 25 August 2023 | 18 to 38, or 43 for backward classes, with a two-year relaxation to the end of 2023 — 40 and 45; candidates of the abandoned March 2019 round allowed if over age |
| Examination | October 2023 for most cadres; health workers, supervisors and contract gram sevaks in June and July 2024 |
| Lists | Marks lists, selection and waiting lists on the parishad sites from late 2023; additional lists under the department’s letter of 13 June 2025 through 2026 |
Rural development department Rural development department — circulars ZP Raigad — recruitment notices ZP Kolhapur — recruitment notices ZP Nashik — recruitment notices
Overview
The Sangli advertisement of August 2023 shows a parishad’s round in full: 754 posts in seventeen cadres, from health supervisors and health workers of both kinds, pharmacists and contract gram sevaks to junior engineers civil for works and rural water supply, junior draftsmen, junior assistants and junior assistants for accounts, supervisors, livestock supervisors, laboratory technicians, extension officers for agriculture, panchayats and statistics, and civil engineering assistants. Other parishads added stenographers, senior assistants and the mechanical cadres. Pay ran from S-6 for the junior assistant to S-14 for the junior engineer, with the contract gram sevak on an honorarium of ₹16,000.
The examination was one paper of 100 questions and 200 marks in 120 minutes, computer-based in several sessions with normalisation binding on all. For technical posts it carried Marathi, English, general knowledge and reasoning-and-arithmetic at 15 questions each and the technical subject at 40; for the non-technical posts — junior assistant, supervisor, the panchayat and statistics extension officers — the four general sections at 25 each. The difficulty was set at the post’s minimum qualification, the technical questions for junior engineer, pharmacist and laboratory technician were in English only, and 45 per cent of the total was required to enter the merit list. No negative marking clause appears in the advertisement.
By the rural development department’s resolution of 24 September 2024, following a cabinet decision of the day before, the gram sevak at pay level S-8 and the gram vikas adhikari at S-12 were merged into one cadre named Gram Panchayat Adhikari at S-8, with a promotion ladder to assistant block development officer, assistant group development officer and block development officer. The next round will advertise the post under that name; the 1967 district service recruitment rules are to be amended to match.
Eligibility
| Cadre | Qualification | Pay level |
|---|---|---|
| Contract gram sevak — now Gram Panchayat Adhikari | HSC with 60 per cent, or a three-year engineering diploma, or BSW, or SSC with a two-year agriculture diploma, or an agriculture degree; a computer certificate such as MS-CIT at application; preference for rural or social work experience | ₹16,000 honorarium on contract |
| Health worker, male | SSC with science; the twelve-month multipurpose worker course within three chances after appointment; 50 per cent of posts with preference for seasonal spraying workers | S-8 |
| Health worker, female | ANM, registered with the nursing council — GNM and BSc nursing were held not to qualify | S-8 |
| Health supervisor | A science degree and the multipurpose worker course | S-13 |
| Pharmacist | A pharmacy degree or diploma, registered under the Pharmacy Act | S-10 |
| Junior engineer, civil | A degree or three-year diploma in civil engineering | S-14 |
| Civil engineering assistant | SSC and a one-year civil engineering assistant course, a draftsman or construction supervisor course, or a civil engineering diploma or degree | S-8 |
| Junior draftsman | SSC and a recognised civil draftsman course | S-8 |
| Junior assistant, and for accounts | SSC and typing certificates — Marathi 30 and English 40 words a minute, Marathi mandatory; the English certificate within two years if appointed on Marathi alone | S-6 |
| Supervisor — women only | A degree in sociology, home science, education, child development or nutrition; age 21 minimum | S-13 |
| Livestock supervisor | BVSc or a listed livestock diploma; a computer certificate | S-8 |
| Laboratory technician | BSc with a life or physical science; the Haffkine DMLT preferred | S-13 |
| Extension officer — agriculture, panchayats, statistics | An agriculture degree; any degree with rural welfare experience preferred; a degree with statistics, mathematics, economics, commerce or science | S-13 |
| Condition | Rule |
|---|---|
| Domicile | A Maharashtra domicile certificate; Marathi-speaking residents of the 865 border villages with fifteen years’ residence, without social reservation |
| Scheduled areas | Posts in the thirteen PESA districts filled under the Governor’s notification of 2019 and the resolution of 1 February 2023 |
| Computer | A certificate within two years of joining for cadres that do not require it at application |
| Fee | ₹1,000; ₹900 for backward classes and orphans; ex-servicemen and disabled ex-servicemen exempt; per post |
| Age relaxations | PwD, project-affected, earthquake-affected, freedom fighters’ wards and government and parishad employees to 45; part-time employees to 55; sportspersons and orphans 43; ex-servicemen service plus three years — each two more in 2023 |
Selection process
Each stage in order, and what it actually tests.
| Stage | Format | What it involves |
|---|---|---|
| Sanction and district advertisements | Department resolution; each parishad advertises | The department sanctions a percentage of vacancies and a time-bound programme; each parishad fixes its vacancies and reservation, chooses the agency and advertises. The 2023 sanction of 15 November 2022 covered 80 per cent of vacancies to 15 August 2023. |
| Application through the agency | IBPS, per post, ₹1,000 or ₹900 | Online only, 5 to 25 August 2023, a separate application and fee for each post; no documents at this stage. Age on the closing date; a Maharashtra domicile certificate required. |
| Online examination | 100 questions, 200 marks, 120 minutes, normalised | Multiple sessions with normalisation; technical posts 60 general and 40 technical questions, non-technical posts 100 general. Forty-five per cent of the total to enter the merit list; no interview. |
| Verification and lists | Provisional list, then final, waiting and additional lists | Document verification only for candidates on the provisional list, with originals and two attested copies; ties broken in favour of farmer-suicide-affected families, then age, then qualification. The select list is valid for a year. |
Exam pattern
| Section | Technical posts | Non-technical posts |
|---|---|---|
| Marathi | 15 | 25 |
| English | 15 | 25 |
| General knowledge | 15 | 25 |
| Reasoning and arithmetic | 15 | 25 |
| Technical subject | 40 | — |
| Total | 100 questions, 200 marks | 100 questions, 200 marks |
Difficulty follows the post’s minimum qualification — SSC for health workers, pharmacists, junior engineers and junior assistants; HSC-level languages with degree-level general knowledge and reasoning for health supervisors, supervisors and extension officers; HSC and agriculture-diploma level for the contract gram sevak. Marathi is in Marathi, English in English, the general sections in both; the technical questions are in English only for junior engineer, pharmacist and laboratory technician and bilingual for the rest. A minimum of 45 per cent of the total is required to enter the merit list. No negative marking clause appears in the advertisement. No oral examination, no re-evaluation, no copy of the paper or answer sheet.
Sources
Checked 11 September 2026 against the rural development department’s resolution of 15 November 2022 on the government resolutions portal, the Sangli zilla parishad’s advertisement 1/2023 read in full and the Dhule and Raigad notices, the Gram Panchayat Adhikari resolution of 24 September 2024 read from a mirror because the portal’s copy was not served, the recruitment pages of the Raigad, Kolhapur, Nashik and Beed parishads, the department’s circular and resolution lists, and the Nagpur bench judgments of 27 March 2026. The statewide total and the examination calendar are as reported; only Sangli’s vacancy table was read.
Rural development department resolution, 15 November 2022 — the sanction ZP Sangli — advertisement 1/2023 ZP Sangli — recruitment notice ZP Dhule — recruitment 2023 ZP Raigad — recruitment 2023 Gram Panchayat Adhikari resolution, 24 September 2024 — mirror copy High Court, Nagpur bench — health worker judgment, 27 March 2026
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
Questions
No. No statewide sanction for a 2025 or 2026 zilla parishad round appears in the rural development department’s resolutions or circulars, and the parishads’ recruitment pages carry only the 2023 round’s lists and contractual health posts. The department has made no official statement on a next round; vacancy figures circulating are compilations, not notifications.
The rural development department’s sanction of 15 November 2022 let every zilla parishad fill 80 per cent of its Group C direct-recruitment vacancies through its district selection board. The 34 parishads advertised in August 2023 — about 19,000 posts in cadres from gram sevak and health worker to junior engineer and junior assistant — with applications through IBPS from 5 to 25 August 2023 and an online test of 200 marks in October 2023, and in June and July 2024 for the health and gram sevak cadres. Additional lists from its merit lists were still being published in 2026.
One computer-based paper of 100 questions and 200 marks in 120 minutes, normalised across sessions. For technical posts, Marathi, English, general knowledge and reasoning with arithmetic at 15 questions each and the technical subject at 40; for non-technical posts, the four general sections at 25 each. Forty-five per cent of the total is required to enter the merit list. No interview, no re-evaluation, and no negative marking clause in the advertisement.
In the 2023 round, for contract gram sevak: HSC with 60 per cent, or a three-year engineering diploma, or BSW, or SSC with a two-year agriculture diploma, or an agriculture degree, plus a computer certificate such as MS-CIT at application, at an honorarium of ₹16,000 a month. The post has since been merged with gram vikas adhikari as Gram Panchayat Adhikari at pay level S-8 by the resolution of 24 September 2024, and the next round will advertise it under that name.
In 2023, ₹1,000 for open candidates and ₹900 for backward classes and orphans, per post, with ex-servicemen exempt. Age on the closing date was 18 to 38, or 43 for backward classes, plus a two-year relaxation for advertisements before the end of 2023 — 40 and 45 — with the usual relaxations for PwD, project-affected, sportspersons, orphans and ex-servicemen, and 55 for part-time employees.
No. The advertisements state that no oral examination is held, under the general administration department’s resolution of 4 May 2022. Selection is on the written paper alone, with document verification for candidates on the provisional list and the select list valid for a year.
No. The post requires the ANM qualification with nursing council registration, and the High Court’s Nagpur bench on 27 March 2026 dismissed the petitions of GNM and BSc nursing candidates excluded at document verification in the 2023 round, holding that recruitment rules must be strictly construed.
On each zilla parishad’s own website and the district collectorate’s notice pages — marks lists out of 200, provisional and final selection lists, waiting lists and, from 2025, additional selection lists under the department’s letter of 13 June 2025. Raigad, Kolhapur, Nashik and Beed published lists through 2025 and 2026.
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