MPSC Group C Prelims Exam Date 2027

MPSC Group C Prelims Exam Date 2027 — revised to 24 January 2027

The Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) has revised the date of the Maharashtra Group-C Services Combined Preliminary Examination 2026, under Advertisement No. 017/2026. The preliminary examination will now be held on 24 January 2027 (Sunday). It was earlier scheduled for 3 January 2027, and before that for 25 October 2026, so this is the second revision of the date.

Basis of this post — read plainly

The official MPSC website could not be read from our server: it is a client-rendered application that returns only a JavaScript shell, and its public API endpoints reject requests without a checksum header computed by the frontend. The facts in this post therefore rest on the unanimous consensus of six independent sources — AglaSem News, NDTV, JagranJosh, Times Now, Daily Jagran and NewsAddAlive — all citing the MPSC corrigendum to Advertisement No. 017/2026 dated 6 November 2026, with the MPSC's own post on X quoted verbatim by NDTV and JagranJosh. That is the same basis used for other posts where the official portal could not be read, such as the CPCT admit card post.

Vacancies — 16,717, not 16,797

The total number of vacancies is 16,717, raised from 5,707 (originally 2,619 on 25 June 2026, raised to 5,707 by a July corrigendum, now raised by 11,010). One aggregator headline gives 16,797 — that figure is wrong, and 16,717 is confirmed by AglaSem, NDTV, JagranJosh, Times Now and Daily Jagran. The examination covers 27 post types in all, including Clerk-Typist, Tax Assistant, AMVI, Talathi and Staff Nurse, after 21 additional cadres were added and the exam scheme revised.

Fresh applications

Fresh applications and cadre preferences can be submitted from 2:00 PM on 13 November 2026 to 11:59 PM on 27 November 2026 on mpsconline.gov.in. Candidates who have already applied need not re-apply; they may choose the newly added posts through My Account, View, Recheck Eligibility, with no extra fee. Posts chosen now cannot be changed later.

Fee

The last date for fee payment is 30 November 2026, 11:59 PM, online only; the challan option is closed. No fee amount is stated in any source, so no fee figure is given in this post.

Other details

There is a one-year relaxation in the upper age limit, under a General Administration Department government resolution dated 5 November 2026. The preliminary examination is a single combined offline OMR-based examination for the old and new cadres, with the syllabus as published on the commission's website on 15 November 2022. The admit card release date is yet to be announced, and the Mains date will be announced separately. More posts may still be added until the prelims result.