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The Panchayat Secretary is the administrative officer of a gram panchayat — the person who keeps its records, runs its meetings, implements its schemes and connects the village to the district administration. It is a district cadre post in the Panchayat Raj Subordinate Service, and it has been recruited by the Panchayat Raj department itself rather than by the public service commission.
Read the notification status below before anything else on this page. There is no open recruitment to this post, the last one was notified in 2018, and a vacancy count released in 2026 is being circulated elsewhere as though it were a notification. The rest of the page describes the job and the one examination Telangana has actually set for it.
Telangana Panchayat Secretary · checked 19 September 2026
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.
Checked 19 September 2026
No open recruitment as at 11 September 2026 — see the notification section
Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Government of Telangana
2018, for 9,355 Junior Panchayat Secretary posts
A bachelor’s degree, plus working knowledge of computers
Notification
Checked 11 September 2026. No Panchayat Secretary or Junior Panchayat Secretary notification appears in the TGPSC notification list, and the Panchayat Raj department's own portal carries no recruitment notice. The last actual recruitment to this post was notified in 2018. If you have been told an application is open, check the two official sources linked below before paying any fee.
In May 2026 the Panchayat Raj department stated how many Panchayat Secretary posts were vacant: 1,213, across the state’s 12,760 gram panchayats, with Nalgonda (85), Kumram Bheem Asifabad (78), Kamareddy (68) and Jangaon (64) carrying the largest shortfalls and Sangareddy (12), Hanumakonda (14), Warangal (14) and Mancherial (14) the smallest. That statement is a count of empty chairs. It names no recruiting agency, no eligibility, no exam pattern and no timetable, because none had been decided.
Several coaching and job-alert sites have republished the May 2026 vacancy count as though a recruitment notification had been issued for those posts. No official source says that. Until a notification appears on an official portal with a notification number, a closing date and a fee, there is nothing to apply for — and a page telling you otherwise is guessing.
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| May 2026 | 1,213 Panchayat Secretary posts reported vacant by the Panchayat Raj department. No recruitment method announced. |
| August 2023 | The state directed District Collectors to issue appointment orders as Panchayat Secretary Grade-IV to Junior Panchayat Secretaries scoring 70% or above in a District Level Performance Evaluation Committee assessment, with those below 70% re-observed for six months. |
| 20 December 2018 | The High Court stayed the 2018 recruitment and barred the issue of appointment letters, on petitions about the answer key, key objections and the category-wise split of posts. |
| 10 October 2018 | The written examination for the 2018 recruitment was held. District collectorates ran certificate verification and published selection lists from December 2018. |
| 31 August 2018 | Notification No. 2560/CPR&RE/B2/2017 issued by the Panchayat Raj department for 9,355 Junior Panchayat Secretary posts — the last actual recruitment to this cadre. |
TGPSC notifications list Telangana Panchayat Raj department portal
Overview
A Panchayat Secretary works at the base of the state’s administrative structure. The role covers maintaining the panchayat’s records and accounts, convening and recording its meetings, implementing rural development and welfare schemes, issuing certificates within the panchayat’s competence, and acting as the point of contact between the elected body and the block and district administration.
The examination reflects that work. Alongside the general studies material common to every state recruitment, it examines the panchayat raj system specifically — the constitutional provisions that created it, the three-tier structure, the powers and functions of each tier, the state’s own panchayat legislation, and the rural development and welfare schemes a secretary would administer. That component is the part general competitive preparation does not cover.
Telangana has recruited to panchayat administration under different designations, grades and conducting arrangements across cycles, and the eligibility and syllabus have moved with them. Anything written in general terms about "the Panchayat Secretary exam" — including this page — is background. The notification for your recruitment is the specification, and it should be read before any preparation is planned around a pattern.
Eligibility
There is no current eligibility rule to quote, because there is no current notification. What follows is what the 2018 recruitment required. A future recruitment may reuse it, adjust it, or be run on an entirely different basis — the post has been recruited under more than one designation and conducting arrangement.
| Requirement | As notified in 2018 |
|---|---|
| Qualification | A degree from a recognised university, held as on 31 August 2018, together with working knowledge of computers. |
| Age | 18 to 39 years as on 31 August 2018. |
| Age relaxation | SC, ST and BC candidates 5 years; persons with disability 10 years; ex-servicemen 3 years plus length of service; state government employees 5 years. |
| Fee | ₹800 for general candidates and BC creamy layer; ₹400 for SC, ST, BC non-creamy-layer, PH and ex-servicemen candidates. |
| Nature of the post | District cadre post in the Panchayat Raj Subordinate Service, on a consolidated ₹15,000 a month for three years, with regularisation as Panchayat Secretary Grade-IV after that period. |
Selection process
Each stage in order, and what it actually tests.
| Stage | Format | What it involves |
|---|---|---|
| Written examination | Objective | A degree-level objective paper covering general studies, the panchayat raj system and rural development, with the Telangana-specific content that appears in every state recruitment. The structure and marks are set by the notification. |
| Certificate verification | Documents | Degree, age, category, local status and any claimed relaxation verified against originals for candidates called in order of merit. |
| Appointment and posting | Merit and preference | Allotment to a panchayat or cluster by merit and preference within the district and reservation rules applying to the recruitment. |
Exam pattern
| Paper | Content | Questions | Marks | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper I | General studies and mental ability, and the culture and history of Telangana | 100 | 100 | 120 minutes |
| Paper II | The Telangana Panchayat Raj Act 2018, rural development programmes, and other central and state schemes | 100 | 100 | 120 minutes |
Paper II is the one worth studying even now, because it is the only place any Telangana recruitment has examined panchayat administration as a subject in itself: the Panchayat Raj Act, the evolution of panchayat raj including the constitutional amendments and the committee reports behind them, the duties of a Panchayat Secretary, rural sociology, the flagship rural development schemes, the rural economy of Telangana, community-based organisations and self-help groups, and the revenue, expenditure and scheme-fund accounting a panchayat runs on.
Sources
Checked 11 September 2026. The 2018 notification number and date, the examination date and the district selection lists are confirmed on Telangana government district portals. The full text of the 2018 notification — the vacancy break-up, fee, age rule, paper structure and syllabus — is no longer hosted on a government site, because the application portal it lived on has been taken down; those details are reported here as the notification stated them.
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
Questions
A Panchayat Secretary is the administrative officer of a gram panchayat — maintaining its records and accounts, convening and recording gram sabha and panchayat meetings, implementing rural development and welfare schemes at village level, issuing certificates within the panchayat’s competence, and acting as the link between the elected body and the mandal and district administration.
The recruitment has been a degree-level objective written examination covering general studies and current affairs, the panchayat raj system, rural development and welfare schemes, and general abilities, followed by certificate verification. There is no interview. Because Telangana has notified rural administration posts under different designations and arrangements, the paper structure and marks must be confirmed in the notification for your recruitment.
Irregularly — it is notified when vacancies are sanctioned rather than on an annual calendar. That makes it a recruitment best prepared for alongside the TGPSC Group examinations, since the general studies half is shared and the panchayat raj component can be added in a few weeks when a notification appears.
The constitutional provisions on local government, the three-tier structure and the subjects devolved to it, Telangana’s own panchayat raj legislation and rules, panchayat finances and audit, the conduct of the gram sabha, and the major rural development and welfare schemes with their entitlements and implementing authorities. Reading the state act directly is more useful than any summary of it.
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