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Maharashtra Zilla Parishad Posts Exam Pattern

One paper, normalised, with a 45 per cent floor and no interview.

Maharashtra Zilla Parishad Posts · checked 19 September 2026

Maharashtra Zilla Parishad Posts at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

Maharashtra Zilla Parishad Posts: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Additional selection and waiting lists still being published in 2026; no new round sanctioned

    Status

  2. 02

    ₹1,000; ₹900 for backward classes and orphans; ex-servicemen exempt; per post

    Fee, 2023

  3. 03

    District selection boards of the 34 zilla parishads, under the rural development department’s sanction

    Recruiting bodies

  4. 04

    2023 — advertised 5 August 2023; about 19,000 Group C posts; examined October 2023 and June to July 2024

    Latest round

Pattern

Maharashtra Zilla Parishad Posts — How the paper is structured

The rules.
RuleDetail
100 questions, 200 marks, 120 minutesOnline in sessions; normalised.
Technical posts15 each of Marathi, English, general knowledge and reasoning; 40 technical.
Non-technical posts25 each of the four general sections.
Floor45 per cent of the total for the merit list.
Negative markingNo clause in the advertisement.
Interview and re-evaluationNone.

Confirm the structure against your own notification

MPSC and the state’s other recruiting bodies revise schemes, ratios and dates between cycles, and the advertisement for your cycle is the document that binds. The figures here are from the latest documents on the official sites at the date checked and are labelled where they come from an older cycle.

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