MPSC State Services (Rajyaseva) 2026 — Group-A & Group-B

Advertisement 132/2025 (24 December 2025) announced the Maharashtra Civil Services Gazetted Group-A and Group-B Combined Preliminary Exam 2026 for 87 posts: 79 in the State Service exam and 8 Veterinary Officer posts in the Maharashtra Veterinary Service exam. Online applications ran from 31 December 2025 (2 pm) to 20 January 2026, and the Prelim was held on Sunday 31 May 2026 at 37 district centres. [1]

After a corrigendum on 17 June 2026 added posts sent later by government departments, the Prelim result (22 June 2026) was processed for 238 posts. The State Services Main Exam 2026 (Notification 018/2026, 25 August 2026) is being held for these 238 posts from 3 October to 1 November 2026 at Amravati, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nagpur, Nashik, Navi Mumbai and Pune. [2]

Some of the cadres in the State Services Main Exam 2026 (Appendix-1 of Notification 018/2026) [2]

• Citizenship: Indian citizen.
• Qualification: a degree from a recognised university, or a qualification the Maharashtra government has declared equivalent to a degree.
• Exceptions: Assistant Director, Maharashtra Finance and Accounts Service needs a commerce degree with at least 55%, or CA / ICWA final, or a commerce post-graduate degree, or an MBA (finance) from an AICTE-recognised institute. Industry Officer (Technical) needs an engineering or technology degree (not civil or architecture-type branches) or a science degree. Veterinary Officer needs a veterinary science degree and registration under the Maharashtra Veterinary Practitioners Act, 1971.
• Marathi: knowledge of Marathi is required.
• Final-year students may sit the Prelim, but must have passed the degree by the last date of the Main exam application.
• Age is counted on: 1 April 2026 for all cadres except Industry Officer (Technical) and Veterinary Officer, for whom it is counted on 20 January 2026. [1]

Age limits printed in Advertisement 132/2025 (same table in Notification 018/2026) [1]

There is no separate age relaxation for women in this table. Women are helped through the 30% horizontal reservation instead (see Reservation). Where a candidate qualifies for more than one relaxation, only the single highest one is given; the limits are not relaxed in any other way. [1]

Minimum physical standards (only these cadres) [2]

Stages and marks (Advertisement 132/2025, para 9) [1]

State Services Main Exam 2026 timetable (11 am – 2 pm each day) [2]

• The Main exam is written in the revised descriptive (essay-type) pattern.
• Language Papers 1 and 2 carry 300 marks each and are qualifying only: at least 25% is needed in each.
• Papers 3 to 9 are counted for merit — 1,750 marks — and the interview carries 275 marks.
• Papers 3 to 7 may be answered in Marathi or English, but one paper must be written in one language only. The optional subject and the medium chosen in the Prelim form cannot be changed later.
• About three candidates per post in each category are called for interview, provided they reach the minimum percentile in the written total: open 35, backward class 30, disabled 20, top-level sportsperson 20, orphan 30.
• Final merit = Main exam marks + interview marks; posts are then allotted by the cadre preference each candidate submits online. [2]

Source [2]

Bank charges and tax are extra. The fee is not refundable. For the 2026 Main exam the challan option was withdrawn: the fee had to be paid online (debit card, credit card, net banking or UPI) by 13 September 2026. [2]

• Domicile: any reservation benefit is only for candidates who are ordinarily resident (domiciled) in Maharashtra, as defined under Section 20 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
• Non-Creamy Layer: backward-class candidates (other than SC and ST) must hold a valid NCL certificate for financial year 2025-26.
• EWS: the EWS claim needs an eligibility certificate for financial year 2025-26, issued before the last date of the Prelim application (20 January 2026).
• Women's posts: under the Women and Child Development Department GR of 4 May 2023, open-category women and women of all backward classes no longer need an NCL certificate to claim posts reserved for open (unreserved) women. Women claiming women's posts within a backward category other than SC/ST still follow the NCL rules, and every woman claiming a women's post must state in the form that she is domiciled in Maharashtra.
• SEBC: reservation for the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes is applied subject to the final court decisions on the 2024 Act.
• Open posts: every candidate, including backward-class candidates, is considered for unreserved posts on merit, so the original category must be filled in correctly. [1]

Example from Appendix-1 of Advertisement 132/2025: Deputy CEO / BDO (Senior grade), Group-A, 13 posts [1]

Cut-offs are not fixed in advance: the commission sets the Prelim and Main cut-off lines for each category and sub-category when it declares results. [2]

Uploads listed in Notification 018/2026 (PDF, 50–500 KB each, where applicable) [2]

Bring all originals for verification at the interview; a candidate who cannot produce them is not interviewed. Candidates claiming disability must link their UDID card details on the MPSC profile; without that validation they cannot apply. [2]

Notification 018/2026 states only that Group-A and Group-B posts are paid at the levels of the revised (7th Pay Commission) pay matrix of the Maharashtra government. It does not print a basic pay figure for each cadre, so none is shown here. [2]

• Selected candidates must pass the departmental or professional exams of their department, the Hindi and Marathi language exams (unless exempt) and the computer-knowledge certificate set by the Information Technology GR of 4 February 2013.
• Candidates must sign the training bond fixed by the General Administration Department GR of 24 April 2015.
• Veterinary Officers must serve at least three years including probation, or repay the bond amount. [1]

Maharashtra uses its own S-levels (for example S-14 = ₹38,600 – ₹1,22,800 for Police Sub-Inspector, see the Police page) rather than the central government's level numbers.

• Seniority among officers appointed through the State Services exam is fixed by the Maharashtra Civil Services (seniority of direct recruits and promotees) Rules, 2015.
• Except Veterinary Officer (Group-A) and Desk Officer (Group-B), every cadre is allotted a Revenue division on direct appointment and on promotion, under the 2021 Revenue-division allotment rules for Group-A and Group-B posts.
• Duties of each cadre are published on MPSC's 'Duties and Responsibilities of various Posts' page. [1]

1. MPSC — Advertisement 132/2025, Maharashtra Civil Services Gazetted Group-A & Group-B Combined Preliminary Exam 2026 (Marathi, 24 Dec 2025) (opens in a new tab) posts, dates, age limits, qualification, reservation rules, NCL/EWS years, fee, exam stages, bond and post-entry conditions · Last checked 14 Oct 2026
2. MPSC — Notification 018/2026, State Services Main Examination 2026 (Marathi, 25 Aug 2026) and corrigendum of 2 Sep 2026 (opens in a new tab) 238 posts, Main exam timetable and centres, physical standards, marks, qualifying rules, interview percentiles, fee, uploads, pay level wording · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

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