The Telangana Public Service Commission has notified 102 posts of Mandal Planning and Statistical Officer / Assistant Statistical Officer in the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, under Notification No. 07/G/ES/2026 dated 28 October 2026.
Applications are open from 30 October 2026 to 27 November 2026, 5:00 PM, online only.
The headline is the age limit
The notification carries a note that matters more than the vacancy count to a large number of candidates:
"As per G.O.Ms.No.86, G.A.(Ser.A) Department, Dt. 18/05/2026 the upper age limit is raised up to 10 years i.e., from 34 years to 44 years."
The upper age limit for this post is now 44, not 34. Anyone who had written themselves out of Telangana Group-II-level recruitment on age grounds in the last decade is eligible again. Age is reckoned as on 1 July 2026, and the notification converts it to dates so there is nothing to calculate:
- Minimum 18: you must not have been born after 1 July 2008.
- Maximum 44: you must not have been born before 2 July 1982.
- Nobody who has crossed 61, the superannuation age, is eligible regardless of relaxation.
Age relaxation
| Category | Relaxation |
|---|---|
| SC / ST / BC / EWS | 5 years |
| Physically Handicapped | 10 years |
| Telangana State Government employees | Up to 5 years, based on length of regular service |
| Ex-Servicemen | 3 years plus length of service in the armed forces |
| NCC — those who served as an Instructor | 3 years plus length of service in the NCC |
Two conditions attach. Employees of corporations and municipalities are not eligible for the state government employee relaxation — it is for Telangana State Government employees. And for ex-servicemen and NCC instructors, after the deductions under Rule 12(c)(i) and (ii), the resulting age must still not exceed the prescribed maximum.
Post, pay and cadre
| Post | Cadre | Vacancies | Age as on 1 July 2026 | Scale of pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandal Planning and Statistical Officers / Assistant Statistical Officers | Zonal | 102 | 18 – 44 | Rs 36,750 – 1,06,990 |
Note the pay carefully: the notification prints Rs 36,750 – 1,06,990. Several sites are reporting an upper end of Rs 1,60,990, which is not what the document says.
Vacancies are filled under Rule 22 and 22(A) of the Telangana State and Subordinate Service Rules 1996, are subject to variation on intimation from the department, and carried-forward vacancies from previous recruitments are filled before fresh ones.
Exam: 300 marks across two papers
| Paper | Questions | Duration | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper-I: General Studies and General Abilities | 150 | 150 minutes | 150 |
| Paper-II: Statistics (common for all), Degree level | 150 | 150 minutes | 150 |
| Total | 300 | 300 |
Paper-I is bilingual — English and Telugu. Paper-II is Statistics at degree level and is common to all candidates.
The mode of examination is not decided yet
This is unusual and worth planning around. Para 1.5:
"The Commission reserves the right to conduct the Examination (objective type) either in OMR based Offline mode or in Computer Based Recruitment Test (CBRT) mode. The Commission will notify the mode of examination through web note / press note and also in the Hall Ticket."
You may be filling OMR bubbles or you may be at a terminal, and you could learn which from your hall ticket. Practise both.
If the examination runs in multiple sessions, the Commission normalises the scores to account for variation between question papers, and the results are announced on a percentile basis after normalisation, under Annexure-VII of the notification.
Fee — and who does not pay it
| Charge | Amount |
|---|---|
| Application processing fee — OC and BC | Rs 1,000 |
| Application processing fee — SC, ST and PwD | Rs 500 |
| Examination fee | Rs 80 |
The examination fee has an exemption that is widely misread: all unemployed applicants are exempt from the Rs 80 examination fee, while all employees of any government — Central, State, PSU, corporation or other government sector — must pay it.
The exemption is on the examination fee only. The application processing fee is payable by everyone at their category rate. Fee once remitted is not refunded or adjusted under any circumstances, and failure to pay either component invalidates the application.
One Time Registration comes first
You apply with your OTR number. If you have never applied to a TGPSC post, you register your bio-data through One Time Registration on the Commission's website first; a user ID is then sent to your registered mobile and email.
The notification is emphatic on a point that costs people their candidature every cycle:
"One Time Registration (OTR) is not considered as an application for any post under any circumstances."
Completing OTR is not applying. You must then submit the online application for this notification specifically. Keep the OTR mobile number and email alive until the recruitment finishes — all OTP, SMS and mail communication goes there.
Dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Notification | 28 October 2026 |
| Online applications open | 30 October 2026 |
| Last date | 27 November 2026, 5:00 PM |
| Hall ticket download | 7 days before the exam, until 5:00 PM the previous day |
| Examination (tentative) | January 2027 |
The Commission states that information communicated through its website is final and that no individual correspondence will be entertained under any circumstances, so check the site rather than waiting to be told.
For the other large state recruitment open right now, see APPSC Group 2 2026. You can also check this post against your own date of birth with the age and eligibility checker, which works out your exact age on 1 July 2026 rather than today.
Figures here are from TGPSC Notification No. 07/G/ES/2026 of 28 October 2026, mirrored below. tgpsc.gov.in does not respond to this server, so the file was obtained from two unrelated sources; they differ by a single word — a "Janurary" typo corrected to "January" between revisions — and agree on all 35 pages otherwise, and the corrected revision is the one mirrored here.